Exhibitions
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Treasures of the Kingdom of Lotharingia, Charlemagne’s legacy
Inaugurated in summer 2021 with the hero Ulysses, the Hôtel Départemental des Expositions (HDE Var) in Draguignan in the Var département, in the south of France, has quickly established itself as a…
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In the studio of the Lemoine & Chaudet sisters
« Je déclare vivre de mon art » Dans l’atelier des sœurs Lemoine & Chaudet Grasse, Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard, from 10 June to 8 October 2023 Lovers of early painting will certainly remember…
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An exhibition on art nouveau jewelry
As usual, L’École des Arts Joailliers takes a serious approach to a subject that some would quickly find futile, and has wisely entrusted Rossella Froissart - Director of Studies at the École…
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Back to L’Aquila (4). An exhibition about the Maestro di Campo di Giove
As part of the tour of the Museo Nationale d’Abruzzo, from 26 May until 3 September there is a very interesting focused exhibition accompanying the recent acquisition of four panels depicting…
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Marquet in Normandy
Il y avait eu cette dernière décennie Pissarro, Boudin puis Dufy, le Musée André Malraux poursuit avec Marquet son cycle d’expositions consacrées aux peintres qui ont entretenu un lien particulier avec…
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Cross in the light of the Var, "the most beautiful country in the world"
His name is a sparkling invitation, and yet the beach at Baigne-cul remains deserted, barely animated by three boys, or rather by a single one, depicted three times under a blazing sun. The…
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Hubert-Sauzeau, an exhibition in Niort, Deux-Sèvres department
He had benefited in 2017 and again in 2019 from two discreet focused exhibitions organised by the Musée Bernard d’Agesci in Niort at the initiative of its director, Laurence Lamy, who had been…
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Ingres. The artist and his princes
We were thrilled with the visit. Reading the remarkable catalogue completes our conviction: this Ingres exhibition at the Château de Chantilly is a great success. It presents the five paintings…
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Pierre Alexandre Morlon, art in the service of the Republic
Taking an interest in artists of local origin is one of the missions of French provincial museums, and we can only congratulate those who do so. Those born in Paris are often much less fortunate…
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Jacobus Vrel. Forerunner of Vermeer
The biography of Jacobus Vrel, to whom the Fondation Custodia is devoting a remarkable retrospective, is a quick one to write: we know almost nothing about the artist, apart from his works (only…
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Sarah Bernhardt. And the woman created the star
"I’m not sure that Madame Sarah Bernhardt, at the point she’s at, is still able to find the right intonation to say "Good morning Sir, how are you?" She needs the extraordinary to be herself" The…
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An exhibition on the Alps as a frontier
It was 2012: the plans-reliefs were the subject of a high-profile and very expensive exhibition at the Grand Palais. At the time we wrote an article: "Musée des Plans-Reliefs: an exhibition. After…
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Promenades on paper
There’s nothing like a summer on the banks of the Loire to restore your strength after a harsh American winter, even if you might prefer "Promenades on Paper" to "Promenades de papier", especially…
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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…