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Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siècle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models (...)

During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas. The artists would often overstate the beauty of their models, rendering them more beautiful than they actually were.The contemporary representation of the Mother of Christ, however, tended to (...)

Made in Malines! Derrière ce titre qui résonne comme un label commercial se cache une marque ou plutôt toute une série de marques énigmatiques. Elles ont été apposées, autour de 1500, sur des statuettes communément appelées poupées malinoises : le M et le blason à trois pals de la ville de Malines (...)