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With a low return on money in the bank, everyone is in a position to ask themselves the question of how to avoid losing their savings and diversify their capital. But how to choose? What is the right investment in the art market?
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Order of May 4, 2017 amending the order of August 16, 2016 on the prohibition of trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn on the French national territory
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Very few women have left a name in the history of painting. Whether by their talent or by their originality, they do not suffer from the comparison with male artists. Louyse Moillon (Paris, ca. 1610-1696) is perhaps the most illustrious of them, as she occupies a leading position in her genre of still life with fruit and her works are so sought after.
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First of all, it should be noted that when you wish to have your jewels, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' items appraised, this allows you to know your goods better in detail. But this also gives other advantages.
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For centuries, the only way to produce a book was to write it entirely by hand. Even if several scribes copied the same text, they could only produce a small number of copies. As the demand for books continued to grow, it became necessary to find a faster and cheaper way to reproduce them.
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The first books printed by typographic process are called incunabula, from 1450-14511 to 1500 or 1501 according to the sources, name coming from the Latin word "incunabula" which means "cradle" (of movable type printing). The forms of books evolved slowly and it is rather around the 1530s that books finally emancipated themselves from the medieval forms inherited from manuscripts.
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The binding, as an object, refers to the fascinating history of the book, its role and its diffusion through the centuries. It is both a technique and an art, the result of two successive acts: protection and decoration. The bookbinders who have devoted themselves to this task over the centuries have not ceased to contribute to the evolution of their art. They have thus brought bookbinding into the world of the decorative arts.
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In our Western societies and until the Middle Ages, artists remained, with a few exceptions, completely anonymous behind their works. Indeed, it was guided by God that the hand of the craftsman transcended the material by reproducing an image directly dictated by Heaven. The skill of the craftsman only reinforced the idea that such works could only have a divine origin.
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This article is not intended to be the expression of an absolute and monolithic truth but rather the fruit of research and reflections linked to an observation of the "modern" numismatic market. At the time of the changeover from the franc to the euro, the Principality of Monaco, which had signed agreements with France to mint its currency, saw its currency transformed like other small states (San Marino, the Vatican).
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The shiny patinas occur as a result of repeated rubbing with fats (palm oil), sweat and of course dirt. The intensity and frequency of the rituals can produce quite surprising results. The most flattering are the reddish-brown patinas that Africans call "telephone patina", which is related to the patina that used to be found on bakelite telephones after intensive use.
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In the field of tribal art, and probably more than in many others, the patina or its absence is the very first element that will orientate our look on the interest of a piece. Unconsciously, it influences our judgment well before the aesthetic and ethnographic qualities of an object.
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Scientists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries vied with each other in their ingenuity to create new ways of igniting fire. In the late 1770s, the famous Italian physicist Alessandro Volta proposed a lighter based on the ignition of hydrogen by electric sparks.
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