Teofilo wrote:
I should have said it in my previous message : the
first and foremost
priority for France, is that Government-owned museums allow visitors
who paid their entrance ticket to carry a camera and take pictures of
paintings and sculptures when the painters and sculptors died more
than 70 years ago.
I was in the Loire-et-Cher region a couple of weeks back and photography
was allowed in nearly all the locations we visited. In the places which
did have signs up saying "No photography" no one was taking any notice
at all, not even the staff.
In addition I had the Mairies open up the churches to record medieval
frescoes, monuments, baptismal fonts, stained glass, paintings, stone
carvings, etc. No problem at all. Most of them seemed genuinely pleased
that someone was taking an interest. In a couple of places, as I was
finishing a local dignitary would turn up to point out something I might
have missed.