Mardi 29 juillet 2014
Last update on 21/05/2014
Last update on 21/05/2014
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
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, (...)
"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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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
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 (...)
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 (...)
