Hi ! Graduated from the Ecole du Louvre in Art History, I'm studying Heritage and Museums at the University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. Art became the center of my life through my studies but I also love to practice it, especially drawing and photography, my favorite hobbies. I hope you will enjoy reading my articles on DailyArt Magazine !
Siemon Scamell-Katz: An Ode to the Sublime
Welcomed in a Parisian pop-up gallery on rue Saint-Gilles, the exhibition The End of Otherness presented, for the first time in France, some...
Montaine Dumont 19 May 2022
Michelangelo’s Pieta: An Ode to the Sublime
The Pietà – or Virgin of Pity – is the representation of the Blessed Virgin holding her divine son on her knees. This iconic type...
Montaine Dumont 6 March 2022
Djibril Diop Mambéty – The Poet of African Cinema
“It is good for the future of cinema that Africa exists.” Born on January 23rd, 1945, in Colobane, a small town south-west of Dakar,...
Montaine Dumont 6 February 2022
Vanishing Pyramid: JR’s Art at the Louvre Museum
In 2016, the urban photographer “JR” decided to visually remove the famous pyramid known as the modern symbol of the Louvre. Three years...
Montaine Dumont 3 February 2022
Museo Egizio in Turin: Follow the Guide!
Have you ever been to the Museo Egizio in Turin, in northern Italy? Located in the old town, this institution brings together more than 300,000...
Montaine Dumont 13 January 2022
The Troubadour Style: Fantasized Rediscovery of the Middle Ages in Painting
The rediscovery of medieval civilization is one of the most striking French intellectual curiosities of the later 18th century and early 19th...
Montaine Dumont 28 September 2021
On the Tracks of the Gunter Demnig’s Stumbling Stones
“There must be a Jew buried here” – this was a phrase commonly uttered by some Germans before World War II, when they stumbled over...
Montaine Dumont 9 July 2021
The Bust of Nefertiti: Ancient Masterpiece or Genius Hoax?
On December 6, 1912, a team of excavators from the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, led by Ludwig Borchardt, unearthed a wonderful work of art. They...
Montaine Dumont 20 November 2020
The Lost Portrait of Henry VIII: Art in Service of Power
Posing proudly in front of the fascinated spectator, a monarch fixes us with his majestic gaze. Perhaps you recognized the best known portrait of...
Montaine Dumont 16 October 2020
Micha Ullman’s Empty Library: An Ode to Culture
A symbol of education in the city of Berlin, the Bebelplatz Square was chosen on May 10, 1933 by Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Education and...
Montaine Dumont 14 September 2020