Exhibitions
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Christofle: a brilliant historyAt last! Long awaited and hoped for over several decades, such a rich Christofle exhibition can only please lovers of jewellery - and objets d’art in general - but its real success lies in the way…
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Eternal Spring. Gardens and Tapestries in the RenaissanceWho still remembers Cardinal Antoine de Granvelle? His memory is still alive in Besançon, where the Musée du Temps occupies the former family palace and where the Musée des Beaux-Arts et…
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An exhibition on Gros and Girodet in MontargisNous n’avons vu cette exposition que samedi dernier. Elle est presque passée inaperçue faute d’une communication suffisante, et cela est vraiment dommage car le sujet est passionnant même si son…
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Sage comme un image. Childhood in the eye of the artist 1790-1850The exhibition currently on display at the Musée de Tessé in Le Mans, before moving on to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, is very successful in the choice of works shown and in its…
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Zurbarán. Reinventing a masterpieceL’exposition Zurbarán du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon et celle qui se tient au même moment sur Guido Reni à Orléans relèvent d’un genre médian entre l’exposition-dossier et la rétrospective. Avec la…
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Passion Renaissance. Artists’ legends in the 19th centuryRaphael often fell in love, the shady Michelangelo dared to sulk to the Pope, and Leonardo breathed his last under the nose of the King of France... The paintings on display at the Musée de…
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Bruno Liljefors. Wild SwedenThe latest instalment in a series of exhibitions, widely discussed on our pages, that the Petit Palais has been devoting over the last decade to the Scandinavian art scene at the end of the 19th…
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In the studio of Guido ReniIn the Guido Reni retrospective in Frankfurt, which we were lucky enough to visit and about which we wrote and produced a video, a painting in the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans, David Contemplating…
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Trompe-l’œil, from 1520 to the present dayThere’s no danger of them fooling many people when they’re deployed in this way. Bringing together eighty trompe-l’œil works, does it not deprive them of their power of illusion? This is the first…
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry, peintre de courreUnfortunately, the cartoons of the Royal Hunting Wall Hanging, which have been enshrined in the Bellifontaine panelling since the reign of Charles X, are not the best-known treasures of the…
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Making stones speak. Medieval sculptures at Notre-DameNotre-Dame is in the news, sometimes for the worse with Emmanuel Macron’s plan to remove Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows and also for the better: the reopening of the cathedral, first of…
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Caillebotte. Painting menOne should never underestimate the effects of opportunity: if the Musée d’Orsay has dedicated itself to celebrating Gustave Caillebotte, it is not (just) for the 130th anniversary of his death, nor…
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Guillon Lethière, "born in Guadeloupe"Born in Guadeloupe (it’s in the title of the exhibition) in 1760, the natural son of Pierre Guillon, a plantation owner, and a mixed-race mother who had been born a slave but had been freed. It is…
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Maarten van HeemskerckIt is difficult to present Maarten van Heemskerck as a complete unknown, even though that is what the great Dutch artist is in the eyes of the public: we must therefore begin by saluting the…
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François Chifflart the unsubmissiveWith the François Chifflart exhibition, the Maison de Victor Hugo continues a fascinating series devoted to artists associated with the poet. Following on from François-Auguste Biard, a…
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Harriet Backer (1845-1932) The music of colorsAfter Edvard Munch, Harriet Backer. The Musée d’Orsay has confirmed its interest in Norwegian art, which, as we have pointed out on a number of occasions, is, like Scandinavian art in general, a…
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The Senn family, collectors and patronsOlivier Senn’s father-in-law, Ernest Siegfried, hated contemporary painting and found his son-in-law’s artistic tastes questionable, not to say dubious. So he decided to give him a selection of…
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On horseback: equestrian portraiture in Renaissance France"Train the brain more than the kidneys and legs [1]". The advice was given to train a horse, but it applies just as well to educate a man. Antoine de Pluvinel, the king’s first equerry, teacher to…
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The Birth and Renaissance of Italian DrawingBecause friendship also sometimes exists between institutions, it should come as no surprise to see this fine selection of Italian Renaissance drawings on loan to Paris, just ten years after the…
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Ribera. Darkness and lightThis Ribera exhibition at the Petit Palais is a real event, since for the first time a retrospective devoted to this artist - the first in France, in fact - finally makes it possible to compare…
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Jean Lurçat. Earth, Fire, Water, AirFamiliar with the Lot region, where he settled after the Second World War, and a privileged resident of the Sant Vicens pottery in Perpignan from 1951 onwards, Jean Lurçat is one of the artists…
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"Cathars". Toulouse in the CrusadeHow do you create a good history exhibition? The recipe may seem simple, but first you need a good subject, if possible one that will appeal to a broad public, perhaps with a touch of polemic,…
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Liners 1913-1942. A transatlantic aestheticThe exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes is remarkably well staged, with superb works of art to discover. It is therefore well worth a visit, but it should be pointed out that those…
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A Devambez exhibition at Nicolas SchwedThere are certain artists who La Tribune de l’Art comes back to often, so often are they in the spotlight. André Devambez is one of them, and we make a point of mentioning him whenever we can,…
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Louise d’Orléans, first Queen of the Belgians. A Romantic DestinyAmong the many children of Louis-Philippe and Marie-Amélie, three stand out: Ferdinand, the eldest, who represented the hopes of the dynasty but died at an early age in a carriage accident. Then…
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Henri Martin - Henri Le Sidaner, two fraternal talentsWith admirable constancy, the Palais Lumière in Evian is working hard to (re)promote and above all exhibit artists considered to be out of fashion, from Jacques-Emile Blanche in the summer of 2015…
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Figures of the Fool. From the Middle Ages to the RomanticsThis old man on all fours, ridden and whipped by a woman, is Aristotle, who has fallen under the yoke of the troubling Phyllis. The philosopher, tutor to Alexander the Great, saw his pupil…
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