The activity of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont in the Russian Empire, with a focus on his St. Petersburg salon by Anežka Kotoučová

“… The aim of the paper is to analyse the activities of the Imperial Envoy Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont in the Russian Empire during the first half of the nineteenth century, with a special emphasis on his salon in St. Petersburg. This salon, which Ficquelmont ran in the years 1829–1840 with his Russian wife Darya Fyodorovna (Dolly), was located in the building of the Austrian Embassy in St. …”
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Vilnius and the Problem of Rococo, 1803–1830 by Tomasz Jędrzejewski

“…This article focuses not on Classicism or Romanticism, but on the local Rococo culture that flourished between 1803 and 1830. The term ‘Rococo’ encompasses a certain aesthetic sensibility that became popular in the salons mondains of the long 18th century. …”
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La Restauration des sièges du Salon rouge de l’hôtel de la Chancellerie entre usages contemporains et patrimoine by Amandine Cambet, Thomas Deshayes, Carolina Hall, Antoine Meissonnier

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Buenos Aires expuesta by Catalina V. Fara

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"Mulâtresses pionnières : trois autrices martiniquaises d’avant la Négritude" by Roger Little

“…Encore moins les autrices qui l’ont précédé : Drasta Houël, poète (Les Vies légères, 1916) et romancière (Cruautés et tendresses, 1925), et les cousines Suzanne et Renée Lacascade, autrices respectivement des romans Claire-Solange, âme africaine (1924) et L’Île qui meurt (1930). …”
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Salas de cine en Bogotá (1897-1940): la arquitectura como símbolo de modernización del espacio urbano by Andrés Avila Gómez, Alfredo Montaño Bello

“…This analysis mainly covers the period from the first performance (Teatro Municipal, 1897), through to the opening of the first theater built to house film performances (Salón Olympia, 1912), it also includes the coexistence of multiple forms of film exhibition with other leisure activities of Bogota´s society (Teatro Faenza, 1924), up until the last two large halls built in the central area of the city -Bogotá went from 121,000 to 326.000 inhabitants- (Teatro San Jorge, Teatro Colombia 1938 and 1940 were inaugurated) and other important theaters appear in the periphery (Teatro El Parque, 1936; Teatro Teusaquillo, 1938).…”
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