Julien Domercq

Art historian and curator

[Priyesh Mistry @priyeshinlondon]

There was a historic moment @NationalGallery this week when Jan Toorop’s painting, on long loan, was installed in Room 43 #PostImpressionism. Toorup is the first mixed-race painter to be presented alongside his peers within the Gallery’s collection. Come and see! 👀 1/3

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@OSaumarezSmith Another favourite Eiffel Tower fact: one of the other submissions to the competition was a 300m high guillotine.

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

An inspiring solution from @FactumFound regarding the difficult issue of restitution to celebrate the launch of their book on the Bakor monoliths. A must read 👏

[Alexander Herman @artlawalex]

Never seen anything like this: anyone who restitutes a Bakor monolith (many were looted in the 1970s from #Nigeria) will be offered a *free* facsimile replacement from @FactumFound, to celebrate a new book on the topic. Amazing. https://t.co/8YCnXYhiJj

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@ltdla Par contre il est quasiment impossible d’éviter les reflections, même avec le meilleur verre du monde, avec un tableau sombre, et aussi avec des fenêtres dans la pièce.

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@ltdla Il faut juste utiliser le bon verre, comme le TruView / Optium qui est en fait un acrylic, sans presque aucune reflections, et bien sûr aussi faire attention à l’éclairage, surtout à l’angle des spots, que l’on doit placer assez haut, ce qui peut poser des problèmes d’ombres.

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@Metabunker De rien. Though to be honest I’m not sure we’ll be able to keep the FN at bay for that much longer…

[Metron @Metabunker]

About to drop a 💎 on you here @NationalGallery #raphael

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

Best one so far today 🐟

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

It is an honour to have been asked by the PM to serve as Director of Communications for No10 Downing Street.

I am looking forward to working with the PM, Ministers and Members of Parliament on the issues that matter most to our country

[Metron @Metabunker]

I was on ⁦@BBC⁩’s In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg yesterday to discuss the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo with historian Catherine Fletcher and my good colleague ⁦@britishmuseum⁩ Sarah Vowles - pick up the extended podcast version via BBC Sounds https://t.co/JpSpaOVX9n

[Peter Schade @psframes]

This is the most exciting ‘new’ frame this year and will be unveiled in the Raphael Exhibition - National Gallery (9/4 - 31/7)

[Peter Schade @psframes]

It’s rewarding to see that almost all the frames that we made to unify the display of the Titian Poesie exhibition have remained on the paintings after they have returned to their collections

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@campbell_c_m @NationalGallery And what a wonderful mythological hang to welcome them back! ❤️

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@Metabunker

[Metron @Metabunker]

The Titian poesie are back @NationalGallery post #TitianLoveDesireDeath - we now have a full on mythology room. Come see it! #rehang #passionesmitologicas #TitianWomenMythPower @museodelprado @gardnermuseum

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@JanJBock Hope #2 is more exciting! 😂 Welcome to this abbreviated world, Janny!

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@OSaumarezSmith @LandmarkTrust Interiors please!

[Peter Schade @psframes]

Today we re-framed the Gallery’s best Pieter de Hooch; previously in a 20th century replica of an English 18th century centre corner frame, now in a newly acquired antique Dutch 17th century ebonised pear wood ripple moulding frame.

[Peter Schade @psframes]

Today, we framed this Parmigianino Portrait in a newly acquired Italian 16th century frame with unusual pierced gadrooning and beautiful original gilding.

[Julien Domercq @JDomercq]

@Tomwmarks How does one procure a sheep’s head these days? #AskingForAFriend

[Antoine Lavastre @LavastreAntoine]

Premières fenêtres ouvertes en vue de la restauration (?) de la chapelle des Morts dites aussi du Sacrément des malades par Merry-Joseph Blondel (1781-1853) en l'église Notre-Dame de Lorette.

Les peintures sont recouvertes de suie d'où la couleur noire.