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Predictions. Artists face the future
La sibylle de Panzoust dévoilait à ses visiteurs d’abord leur avenir puis son postérieur. Panurge vint la trouver pour s’avoir s’il devait se marier. Après avoir ausculté des feuilles d’arbres «elle se…
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Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). The voice of the forest
Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). La voix de la forêt Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, from 5 March to 7 July 2024. Relegated to the rank of ‘tartouillades’, ‘bastard…
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Great decors restored from Notre-Dame de Paris
The exhibition that the Louvre should have organised is finally being staged by the Mobilier national, and so much the better, as its spaces are perfectly suited to hanging large-format…
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Impossible to escape the Olympic Games
"There may be some who would like to do something else..." suggested Raymond Devos, a French comedian, in a falsely ingenuous tone in a sketch entitled "Faites l’amour, pas la guerre" ("Make love,…
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Claude Lorrain. Drawings and etchings
For specialists, this is no surprise, but for everyone else it’s a real revelation: thanks to the Duc d’Aumale, the Château de Chantilly conserves a collection of graphic works by Claude Lorrain of…
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Noël Coypel, painter to the King
Following on from Versailles, the Noël Coypel retrospective is now on show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. But they are not the same exhibition, even though the two share a common catalogue.…
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Jean Mayodon. Precious earth
Only enthusiasts of 20th-century decorative arts are likely to be familiar with the exceptional pieces by Raymond Subes and Jean Mayodon housed in Sens: the two friends, who probably met at the…
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Manet and Degas, from the Musée d’Orsay (and the Met) to the Bibliothèque nationale
With its hand on its heart and its mind preoccupied with soaring insurance and transport costs, the Musée d’Orsay swears that we won’t be seeing such a collection again any time soon, brought in…
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Saint Francis of Assisi
Devoting an exhibition to an iconographic theme is a good thing, because our contemporaries are often ignorant of both the religious history and the mythology on which our civilisation is based.…
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Under the gaze of Medusa. From ancient Greece to the digital arts
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen’s Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is home to Medusa, the Gorgon with whistling hair and petrifying eyes. The unbearable sight of Medusa has been abundantly depicted…
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Gli spagnoli a Napoli. Il Rinascimento meridionale
We only saw the exhibition a few days ago, and it closes this Sunday. We had heard great things about it, which is why we didn’t want to miss it, and the advice we received was excellent, as the…
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Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter
Fifty three years after the Metropolitan Museum acquired Diego Velázquez’ Portrait of Juan de Pareja at Christie’s in November 1970 for a record price of £2,310,000 ($5,544,000), the museum has…
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Léon Monet, brother of the artist and collector
Léon Monet, brother of the artist and collector. The subject is new, the personality just exhumed. After more than a century of posthumous oblivion, omitted by the teeming bibliography attached to…
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A Caravaggesque spring at Versailles
Sent to board in Amiens for the duration of the "Louis XV, passions d’un roi" exhibition, the "masterpieces from the King’s bedroom" naturally returned to Versailles in the spring, although they…
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Antoine Caron, an exhibition at the Château d’Écouen
The excellent retrospective exhibition devoted by the Château d’Écouen to the painter Antoine Caron, in addition to its many qualities, boasts an extraordinary feat that should encourage any art…
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Aristide Maillol: la quête de l’harmonie
La Piscine in Roubaix is certainly the ideal place to host the last stage of the excellent Maillol retrospective discovered at the Musée d’Orsay last year and then proposed at the Kunsthaus in…
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Cecco del Caravaggio
The Batistello Caracciolo exhibition in Naples last year, which we were lucky enough to see but did not write about, Theodoor Rombouts in Ghent, soon Finson in Marseilles, which we are…
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Two rich exhibitions tell the story of the Wars of Religion
Because the clash of arms was never far from the splendour of the Renaissance, the Wars of Religion have retained a prominent place in our collective memory: thanks to Alexandre Dumas and then…
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Naples for passion. Masterworks from the De Vito collection
We were probably among the first in France to talk about the De Vito Foundation, housed in the Villa di Olmo in the Tuscan countryside a few kilometres from Florence, which preserves a remarkable…
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Process: Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum 1500-1900
Drawings for forks, chandeliers, stoves and mirrors? If the former Hôtel Turgot has always been home to furniture and objects, it is nonetheless a paradoxical exhibition that is stopping by the…
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De Bentvueghels
Connaissez-vous Orlando, Bockbaert, Vrijman, Heremyt, Inamorato, Ratel ou Orizzonte ? Pour le dernier, vous pensez peut-être à Jan Frans van Bloemen et vous vous rapprochez. Car ce peintre fut…
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Pastels. From Millet to Redon
No, blurring is not the essence of pastel. It would be absurd to consider that this coloured stick is only good for reproducing "anything pink, silk or gauze". And the landscape painter Camille…
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Giovanni Bellini. Cross-influences
How can you recognise the genius of a painter without seeing the diversity of his work? It is true that the Madonnas and the Child were Bellini’s stock in trade, and he not only multiplied his…
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Swedish Ecstasy
Five years ago, we discovered the art of Hilma af Klint, a Swedish painter from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, whose works were linked to spiritualism. This…
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Vermeer
Hurry to the website of the Rijksmuseum, click frantically to obtain the famous sesame. New visiting slots are offered: it is still possible to see Vermeer on certain evenings at 9:30 pm. By the…
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Theodoor Rombouts, Virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism
When one thinks of Caravagesques, Italian, Spanish, French or Dutch painters come to mind. Flemish painters are often overlooked, sometimes forgotten. This is probably a consequence of the…
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Le Beau Siècle
It is with a cannon shot that this fascinating exhibition begins, undoubtedly the richest of the year in the field of ancient art since it is an almost exhaustive panorama of a century of…