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  • Charles Meynier

    2 May 2008, by Didier Rykner
    This review could have just as easily appeared in the Publications section. Indeed, the exhibition organized by the Bibliothèque Marmottan accompanies the monographic study published by Isabelle (...) continue continue

  • The Golden Age of German Romanticism. Watercolours and drawings in Goethe’s time

    2 May 2008, by Daniel Couty
    They are all here. All those who Nerval said were the sons of this « Germany, a mother to us all ». Yes, every single one, from the best-known – Friedrich, Runge, Carus, Füssli (who was Swiss but (...) continue continue

  • Poussin and Nature

    23 April 2008, by Didier Rykner
    The Poussin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, which arrived here from Bilbao, cannot be reduced to its title alone. First of all because it is a veritable retrospective given the continuous (...) continue continue

  • Baccio Bandinelli. Paintings and drawings from the Louvre

    13 April 2008, by Benjamin Couilleaux
    Baccio Bandinelli. Peintures et dessins du Louvre. Paris, Musée du Louvre, du 21 février au 26 mai 2008 Only a few weeks after the exhibition on Polidoro da Caravaggio’s drawings ended, the Louvre (...) continue continue

  • Thomas Hope. Regency Designer

    6 April 2008, by Stéphane Guégan
    It seems that only the English know how to look at and exhibit decorative arts as a living matter, reflecting its strong hold over those who have made them an everyday companion in their lives or (...) continue continue

  • Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)

    6 April 2008, by Didier Rykner
    Englishmen passing through Rome on their Grand Tour, the trip through Europe that any true aristocrat had to take, wanted their portrait done by him. This is probably why Pompeo Batoni, one of (...) continue continue

    Latest news

    • A landscape by Mauperché acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes 14 May 2008
    • A Patron for Chambord 3 May 2008
    • The Amis du Louvre donate a painting by Luca Cambiaso 28 April 2008
    • A Corot acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne 28 April 2008
    • Paintings recently acquired by the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts 24 April 2008
    • One of the Crown jewels acquired by the Louvre 24 April 2008
    • Two drawings by Charles Eisen for the Louvre 23 April 2008
    • A Hogarth joins the Louvre 23 April 2008
    • A drawing by Toussaint Dubreuil resurfaces 17 April 2008
    • The Louvre preempts a drawing at Christie’s Paris 17 April 2008
    • New drawing donations for ENSBA 15 April 2008
    • A drawing by Richard Parkes Bonington acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum 15 April 2008
    • Acquisition of a seascape by Jan van de Cappelle for the Mauritshuis 15 April 2008
    • A painting is preempted in Bayeux for the Musee Delacroix 11 April 2008
    • A Claude Lorrain acquired by the Getty Museum 1 April 2008

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    Editorial

  • Get a hold of this beauty!

    2 April 2008, by Didier Rykner
    The Louvre is still offering great deals. If you are a millionaire and would like to organize an exhibition, this is definitely the place to come: ask for a couple of masterpieces and it will see you get them on condition you pay the right price. It seems that only the Mona Lisa is not for rent. At least officially. But you can have any other Leonardo you want.
    After Lens, Atlanta and Abou Dhabi, it is now Verona’s turn. Or how to go about leasing 140 of the most important works in the (...)  continue continue

Exhibitions

  • Seventeenth-century Italian painting between Caravaggio and Reni

    1 April 2008, by Huub van der Linden
    At a time when it appears there can never be too many exhibitions on Italian renaissance painting and Titian in particular (as noted e.g. by Christophe Brouard’s review of the Titian exhibition at (...) continue continue

  • François-Xavier Fabre

    18 January 2008, by Didier Rykner
    Some art historians of Neoclassicism use the expression “the three G’sâ€? in designating David’s leading students: Girodet, Gros and Gérard to whom they at times add a fourth, Guérin, although he (...) continue continue

  • Millais

    16 November 2007, by Stéphane Guégan
    Crowds are flooding the Tate Britain and museum goers will never feel lonely when visiting the seven galleries composing this amazing exhibition. Even the late landscapes, the last moment of a (...) continue continue

Publications


Still in the headlines...

  • The Musée Calvet, a rebirth ?

    11 March 2008, by Didier Rykner
    In 1988, the Musée Calvet in Avignon (ill. 1), housed in a beautiful XVIIIth century mansion built by the architect Franque, closed its doors for renovations that were supposed to last four years. (...) continue continue

  • An interview with Guilhem Scherf before the Salon du Dessin

    5 April 2008
    Every year, the Societe du Salon du Dessin organizes a colloquium on drawings. The ones to be held in 2008 and 2009 will be devoted to those by sculptors. We met Guilhem Scherf, head curator for (...) continue continue

  • Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

    24 March 2008, by Antoine Capet
    “Oh, what a bunch of naughty boys!â€?, “They really had some cheek!â€?, might be some of the silent exclamations visitors to the exhibition of this bawdy trio at the Tate Modern will make when they are (...) continue continue



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