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Besides the food, the other highlight was https://www.centrepompidou.fr/ Easily my favourite hideous building, somehow I love it. Fascinating works and a great view from the rooftop patio.
Recently the Amsterdam Rijks Museum made their collection available via API, which I used to create website which will show you a random artwork on each button press: https://randomrijks.com
I'm puzzled by this statement on the Mona Lisa entry [1]: "Artwork recovered after World War II, retrieved by the Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés; to be returned to its rightful owner once they have been identified. Online records of all MNR (‘National Museums Recovery’) works can be found on the French Ministry of Culture’s Rose Valland database." Does anybody know how World War II affected ownership in this cas…
It's because that one is a copy of the original (still old, but ~100 years posterior to Da Vinci's). According to https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/mnr/MNR00265 its last known owner was Friedrich Welz, an Austrian gallery owner, so the work must have come to Paris postwar to figure out whether it needed to be restituted to a previous owner. The original Joconde is https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl01…
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Aka "people should spend money on what I want them to instead of what they want to, because I'm morally superior to them"
Buying NFTs is the public equivalent of wiping your -ss with money. Not sure how to feel morally neutral about it.
If the money goes to some random person who has managed to with the largess of the rich person lottery, instead of down the drain... it's different.
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Aka "people should spend money on what I want them to instead of what they want to, because I'm morally superior to them"
Buying NFTs is the public equivalent of wiping your -ss with money. Not sure how to feel morally neutral about it.
If that doesn't make sense to you, you have not understood what money is!
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The date of creation seems wrong, right? Shouldn't it be ~1500?
Maybe it's one of those things where someone mixed up the centuries. The page states "XVIIe siècle" (17th century), if someone somewhere mixed up "16th century" (which is correct) with "the 1600s", that could explain the error. Personally I'm really not a fan of using the "century" notation, and in my native language it's never used.
Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.
Not sure what it'd do to the NFT market, but it has crashed their servers for sure. > Server error. Continue to search the Louvre collections
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Aka "people should spend money on what I want them to instead of what they want to, because I'm morally superior to them"
Buying NFTs is the public equivalent of wiping your -ss with money. Not sure how to feel morally neutral about it.
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl020579933
MOMA on the other hand has very high quality imagery of Durer.
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It's because that one is a copy of the original (still old, but ~100 years posterior to Da Vinci's). According to https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/mnr/MNR00265 its last known owner was Friedrich Welz, an Austrian gallery owner, so the work must have come to Paris postwar to figure out whether it needed to be restituted to a previous owner. The original Joconde is https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl01…
Thanks for clarifying this. Is it standard to use the original painter’s name even though it’s not their own work?