Vendredi 3 septembre 2010
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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
When he was first appointed as head of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny had stated that he planned to limit the number of blockbuster exhibitions, notably for economic reasons. After Delaroche, the London museum continues to pursue this policy by bringing (...)
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20/08/2010
A little over two years ago, we published an article on the Musée Calvet and how it had recently reopened almost all of its exhibition space after a lengthy refurbishment period. Just a few weeks ago, the museum inaugurated more rooms, this time devoted to (...)
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30/06/2010
This year, Essen, once the heart of the industrial Ruhr, is Cultural Capital of Europe. To mark the event, the Museum Folkwang has put on an ambitious exhibition, “The Most Beautiful Museum in the World.” Its aim: to reunite, if only for a temporary exhibition, (...)
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23/06/2010
At the same time that Toulouse is highlighting Verrio (see article), the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille is currently offering another unfamiliar 18th century Italian painter. This coincidence deserves our attention as museum initiatives which help us discover (...)
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23/06/2010
Although sculpture is not often taken into consideration by museums, alas, Houdon is an exception to the rule. The exhibition at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier is the third one highlighting the artist in the last few years. Versailles had organized a (...)
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22/06/2010
True, the festival, “Normandie Impressioniste” is above all a marketing ploy, a communications operation promoted by Laurent Fabius under the sponsorship of Pierre Bergé and Jérôme Clément. The exhibitions organized for the occasion were cause for doubt given that (...)
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21/06/2010
The buildings which have been preserved and restored at the Saline Royale in Arc-et-Senans (Doubs) by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux alone are worth a visit. The disposition of different architectural styles, the semi-circle formed by the various pavilions, the (...)
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Jean Barbault remains relatively unknown despite a retrospective held in Beauvais (then Angers, Valence and Dijon) in 1974 and 1975. His fantasy figures, Italian women in local costume or resident artists at the Académie de France in Rome parading as Orientals are (...)
Antonio Verrio. The artist’s name is barely known today and yet he became painter to the king of England, Charles II, achieving international status and leaving behind painted murals in many British residences, including Windsor castle. Although some of his décors (...)
The church of Saint Jacques in Abbeville is located in a neighborhood spared by the bombings which destroyed 80% of the city in 1940. It was built in a neo-Gothic style by the architect Victor Deleforterie, a follower of Viollet-le-Duc, on the site of the previous (...)
French legislation protecting historical monuments, despite some recent attacks, should allow us to still preserve our heritage in an effective manner if only it were applied consistently when needed. This article will inaugurate a new series covering, alas, the (...)
The National Gallery is offering, alongside the exhibition highlighting Delaroche, a very interesting retrospective on the Danish painter, Christen Kobke. London has of course, like Paris and other major capitals, already staged events studying artists from (...)
The private collections exhibited at the Louvre should be faultless. This does not necessarily mean including great names in the selection. The most important thing is that the works be among the artists’ (...)
Paul Delaroche loved England and English history. In turn, the British have known how to express their appreciation. Most of the literature on the artist has been written by English authors and the National Gallery is now highlighting his work with an exhibition (...)
Everyone knows the important role Belgium played in the Symbolist “movement”, its literature, poetry and painting. It seems natural therefore that Brussels organize a major exhibition highlighting the subject at the Musees royaux des (...)
After Orleans and Lyon, Eric Pagliano, along with Catherine Monbeig Goguel and Philippe Costamagna, again regales us with a model catalogue – and exhibition – that of the Italian drawing collection in Grenoble. In just a few years, this young curator has become one (...)
While traveling through Germany in 1834, David d’Angers visited Caspar David Frierdrich in his Dresden workshop. He writes in his travel journal
In January 2009, the Bagpipe Player (ill. 1) by Hendrick ter Brugghen set a record price of $10,162,500 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. This spectacular event speaks worlds of the long road traveled in finally recognizing an artist who, fifty years ago, had been (...)
Should private collections be exhibited at the Louvre? The answer is certainly yes when they are of museum quality. This was the case for the Louis-Antoine Prat’s and also the Motais de Narbonne’s which will be shown in the spring. Can one say the same for the (...)
Blessed are those virtuous museums, and here the adjective is doubly qualifying, which find virtue very simply, and very bravely, in studying and publishing their holdings! This is a cardinal task for institutions but often ignored if not scoffed at, relegated to (...)
The Abbaye Saint-Germain, housing the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire d’Auxerre, is made up of a group of buildings centered around an 18th century cloister. In the 20th century, the site was occupied by a hospital which moved in 1962, except for the geriatric ward which (...)
The Alsatian community of Wintzenheim, near Colmar, had made the news sadly a few months ago in devastating the exterior sculptures of the Hertzog chapel (see article). A Neo-Gothic construction built between 1860 and 1862, it was in fact listed as a Monument (...)
The goal of the exhibition organized at the Musée Cantini is to understand the relationship between theatre and painting from the second half of the 18th century to the early 20th. This is probably one of the most difficult shows to review among the many hundreds (...)
ENI, an Italian firm, is one of the world’s largest petroleum companies. Its turnover in 2008 totaled 108 billion euros resulting in profits of 8.8 billion. ENI, thus has money, lots of it, which it uses at times as an arts patron. Thus the Louvre received aid for (...)
The Sacred Made Real is a result of Xavier Bray’s enthusiasm and perseverance. Curator of Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery in London, he is naturally the curator of this exhibition, immediately described as “mystic” by the public, and which can be approached (...)
