Samedi 4 avril 2020
Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Two French museums recently succeeded in reaching their fundraising goals to acquire important works for their collections. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes which wanted to purchase an early work by Ribera thus raised the needed 300,000€ for (...)
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes has launched a fundraiser, from 15 September to 31 December 2013, a public appeal in order to acquire a painting by Jusepe de Ribera which resurfaced last year in an exhibition organized by the Tarantino Gallery (...)
Though museums strive to increase the number of visitors, they cannot always welcome them adequately. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes came up with the idea of creating itineraries in its collections, corresponding to events, equipped with a (...)
Anne Dary, currently chief curator at the Musées du Jura has been appointed to take over as head of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes starting 1st October 2012, replacing Francis Ribemont who has announced his retirement. Previously, Anne Dary (...)
With part of their drawing collection now showing at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Christian and Isabelle Adrien have donated a painting representing Christ in the Garden of Olives and a drawing of a Head of Christ, both by Jean Restout, to (...)
The drawing exhibition currently on show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes presents a fascinating aspect due not only to the high quality of the sheets but also in the way this ensemble was put together, a fact which is sure to set more than (...)
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes acquired a large sketch for the Gabriel-François Doyen painting, The Death of Virginia from a private collection for 170,000€, thus pursuing its aim to consolidate its holdings of French painting for the second (...)
Despite occupying only two rooms, the exhibition Heemskerck and Humanis, created by Ilja Veldman, a specialist on Martin van Heemskerck and the curator Olivia Savatier is well worth an attentive (...)
Discovering a work by Michelangelo in a French public collection is no everyday thing. This incredible finding however did indeed turn up at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes while organizing a special-study exhibition on Marteen van Heemskerck (...)
There is no doubt that Luc-Olivier Merson is strange indeed. This brave and successful retrospective thoroughly proves it. It also goes to show once again that the adjectives applied to some of the painting from the second half of the 19th (...)
In our review on the Maastricht art fair 2008, we had pointed out and reproduced the beautiful painting by Henri Mauperché presented there by the Didier Aaron Gallery.
