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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Over the past few years, the Musée Gustave Moreau has organized exhibitions highlighting a particular aspect of the master’s art, a theme, a previously unexplored facet, a part of the immense oeuvre residing in this private residence on the rue de La (...)
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26/04/2012
Maurice Denis does not in any way correspond to the image of the doomed artist : not only was he Christian but he is also fashionably popular today (not always hand in hand ). After the retrospective staged by Orsay in 2007, a series of exhibitions and (...)
Read the entire article by Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges
24/04/2012
Lorenzo Lotto, Le siècle de Titien, Splendeur de Venise or Titien, Tintoret, Véronese... Of all the Italian schools, the Venetian has always been the favorite of French museums for the major retrospectives staged over the recent past. At the very same (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner
20/04/2012
Whether one is for or against the principle behind the Louvre-Lens, one aspect is sure to elicit unanimous agreement : the incredible intellectual void of this project. The works which are to be exhibited in the "Galerie du Temps" (the name alone reflects its (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner
19/04/2012
Over the course of the 18th century, despite several exceptions, notably that of Venice, Italy’s artistic stardom began to fade and its dominance to recede in favor of French painting. For this reason, the history of French artists who traveled to Rome in (...)
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10/04/2012
"Those who did not live in the years around 1789 do not know the pleasure of life". Talleyrand’s famous statement to Guizot is perfectly illustrated by Carmontelle, the author of numerous small portraits of the so-called blessed society of the (...)
Read the entire article by Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges
08/04/2012
Far from the sight of waves splashing and sailboats bobbing in a marina, Eugeen Van Mieghem was fascinated rather by the activity in the industrial port of Antwerp. He spent his life trying to set down with brush and pencil what Emile Verhaeren expressed with (...)
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06/04/2012
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Henri Edmond Cross, who died prematurely and childless, though he was a pillar of Neo-Impressionism, has been relatively ignored. Now, the exhibition at the Musée Matisse, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after its stop at the Musée Marmottan from October 2011 to February 2012, (...)
Famous for the quantity and quality of its old master drawings, the Frits Lugt collection also holds an ensemble of paintings which are currently being highlighted in an exhibition at the Institut néerlandais, following a campaign of restoration and reframing (...)
Gianfranco Salvatori is well aware that he is about to set loose a veritable bomb which will go far beyond the confines of the museum world. We can now exclusively report that the Roman art historian, after a long investigation, is asserting that he can prove (...)
Endowed, as usual, with very beautiful sheets many of which in fact have not been viewed (at least in our case) often, the Salon du Dessin 2012 for once reflects a drawback : the number of galleries and drawings from the second half of the 20th century and even (...)
Seeing an exhibition of 17th century Italian painting is such a rare occurrence in Paris that visitors should not miss the chance provided by the Musée Maillol, especially since this is a retrospective of a somewhat legendary artist, considered by many as a feminist (...)
Some museums live in a state of grace. This is without a doubt the case of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, under the expert direction of a French curator, Nathalie Bondil. In early autumn of 2011, a new pavillion featuring Quebecer and Canadian art, bearing (...)
The Maastricht Trade Fair is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. This year, however, the section on old masters which we highlight annually in our review seems a trifle less attractive than usual. An excellent level of quality of course, as always, but (...)
The trend in double exhibitions, even sometimes triple is becoming a bit wearisome. It appears easier - but is this really true ? - to attract crowds using two famous names instead of one, regardless of the actual artistic value of the (...)
Among other controversial statements made by Alain Seban, recently reappointed as president of the Centre Pompidou, one of his latest, Le Monde of 2/3/12, was delivered without the slightest trace of humor, saying that the structure of the "Centre Pompidou Mobile" (...)
Louis François Lejeune was adept at wielding the sword, the brush and the pen, putting them at the service of the Empire and his own, as attested by the almost 120 works deployed in the Africa and Crimea galleries at the château in Versailles : paintings and (...)
Compared to certain European countries, the French Culture budget has been spared drastic cuts. But we also know that numbers can be easily manipulated. And that the bill for revising the Finance Law continuously amends - lowering but never increasing - the figures (...)
There's no place like home, and Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) has today, at least for a few months, settled in comfortably at the Beyeler Foundation, in Riehen near Basel. With a selection of 65 works, the curator of the exhibition, Ulf Küster, of the Beyeler (...)
The danger to several churches which some mayors wish to see destroyed and which we have often mentioned here is still very real but circumstances have improved for some of them. We feel it is time to take stock by pointing out these victories as well as the new (...)
The lack of protection of French heritage is a proven fact still ignored by too many people. While classifying or listing a historical monument is no guarantee that it will be preserved, not doing so makes it even more difficult to save endangered buildings. This (...)
Despite having studied and lived several times in France, made friends there, decorated the Finnish pavilion for the Exposition universelle of 1900 and participated in the Finnish exhibition for the Salon d'Automne in 1908, Gallen-Kallela has never enjoyed a (...)
Torn between the violin, the drawing pencil and the paintbrush, between the United States where he was born, raised and died and Germany where he spent most of his career and achieved celebrity, Lyonel Feininger was a tormented artist who never stopped searching (...)
True, the budget allotted to historical monuments and museums in France has managed to resist a bit better than that of our neighbors. In Europe, museums and historical monuments in countries such as Italy, the Netherlands or Spain, have seen their funding (...)
A little over a year ago we had asked the following question in a series of articles : "what use are the laws on historical monuments ?". One of them discussed the château d'Ancenis, threatened by the Conseil Général de Loire-Atlantique, with the active complicity of (...)
Village fairs, carnivals, banquets, weddings, religious festivals... An unbridled joy is on display at the Frans Hals Museum currently exhibiting some forty-five paintings of the Dutch Golden Age on the theme of celebrating dear to Jan Steen and, notably the (...)
