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  • News Items : The Tate Britain Acquires a Constable 10/09/2013

    One of England's most emblamatic artists almost left the country recently. Fortunately, the painting will simply be moving from one English museum to another. Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, on deposit since 1983 at the National Gallery, (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • Exhibitions : John Martin. Apocalypse. 13/12/2011

    "The public wants to be treated like a woman, to whom you can only say what she likes to hear", Goethe said ; John Martin applied the same aphorism to his painting, conceiving catastrophic scenarios, of which the most spectacular are taken from (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • Exhibitions : Romantics 10/12/2010

    The Tate collections are so extensive that it can effortlessly stage two simultaneous, and beautiful, exhibitions on related subjects – presenting paintings and drawings by some of the same artists in both. Clearly, the theme of the “sublime” and (...)

    Lire la suite par Antoine Capet

  • Exhibitions : Art and the Sublime 13/11/2010

    Along with major shows, often based on prestigious loans from internationally acclaimed establishments intended for sell-out crowds drawn by extensive advertising campaigns, the Tate Gallery presents “in-house” exhibitions with little media (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Turner and the Masters 01/11/2009

    Before opening at the Grand Palais on 22 February of next year, Turner and the Master has welcomed its first visitors, both numerous and enthusiastic, in London. This is due reward for a presentation which associates texts and images in such a (...)

    Lire la suite par Stéphane Guégan

  • News Items : The Tate finally purchases Rubens study for Banqueting Hall 10/10/2008

    Our readers may remember that the Tate Gallery had attempted to save Rubens study for Banqueting Hall from being exported after having been exhibited at the National Gallery since 1981

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : The Lure of the East. British Orientalist Painting 07/08/2008

    Long gone is the time when Orientalism lived under terrorist threat. In less than thirty years Edward Said’s manifesto, Orientalism : Western Conceptions of the Orient, has lost much of its hold over researchers and collectors in the field. It is (...)

    Lire la suite par Stéphane Guégan

  • News Items : An important bequest of paintings to the National Gallery and the Tate 02/11/2007

    In 2005, Simon Sainsbury, the grandson of John Sainsbury, founder of the famous chain of supermarkets, had donated the funds for an expansion at the National Gallery which is known today as the Sainsbury (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner