Étiqueté : baroque

Exposition : « Collectors’ Dreams – Glorious Moments in Netherlandish Baroque Art », Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 26 mai 2023-21 avril 2024

“Collectors are happy people” is the last line of the short story The Invisible Collection (1925) by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. This exhibition illustrates the happiness of collectors. For the first time ever, Collectors’ Dreams shows a marvelous German private collection brimming with star painters of the seventeenth-century Netherlandish art world. Starting in 1970, the collection was assembled over three decades through shrewd purchases on the international art market. The collection was recently entrusted on permanent loan to the...

Exposition : « Naples pour passion. Chefs-d’œuvre de la collection De Vito », Aix-en-Provence, musée Granet, 15 juillet-29 octobre 2023

En partenariat avec la Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, le musée Magnin à Dijon, et avec la collaboration de la Fondazione De Vito, le musée Granet présente du 15 juillet au 29 octobre 2023 l’exposition Naples pour passion, chefs-d’œuvre de la collection De Vito. Cet ensemble de peintures napolitaines du XVIIe est l’un des plus prestigieux au monde tant par la richesse de son contenu que par la qualité des œuvres que Giuseppe De Vito...

Exposition : « Francisco de Herrera ‘the Younger’. The Absolute Baroque », Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 25 avril-30 juillet 2023

Francisco de Herrera “the Younger” is one of the most unique and innovative artists of the Spanish Baroque. Nonetheless, and despite his importance during his lifetime, he remains an under-appreciated and in many respects unknown painter. This exhibition, featuring works by the artist which have almost all been restored by the Museo del Prado in an unprecedented project, aims to draw attention to Herrera’s fundamental period in Italy, a time when he acquired his skills...

Exposition : « Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Il busto di Urbano VIII », Rome, Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, 6 octobre 2022-30 juillet 2023

A partire da giovedì 6 ottobre 2022 le Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica ospiteranno il busto in bronzo di Urbano VIII eseguito da Gian Lorenzo Bernini nel 1658. L’opera si potrà ammirare presso Palazzo Barberini fino al 30 luglio 2023 nella Sala Sacchi, dedicata ai protagonisti della famiglia Barberini, con i ritratti dipinti e scolpiti di Urbano VIII e dei suoi nipoti realizzati da Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Giuliano Finelli, Carlo Maratti, Lorenzo Ottoni. Per la...

Parution : Bogdan Cornea, « The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting », Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2022

Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque paintings expose or reference...

Exposition : « El Hijo pródigo de Murillo y el arte de narrar en el Barroco andaluz », Madrid, Museo del Prado, jusqu’au 23 janvier 2022

Durante las décadas centrales del siglo XVII se produjeron en Andalucía un tipo de cuadros muy representativos tanto del alto nivel creativo alcanzado por los principales pintores, como de las expectativas y el gusto de una de las partes más activas de su clientela. Se trata de obras organizadas en series, en su mayoría de mediano tamaño y encargadas por personajes particulares para interiores domésticos u oratorios privados.  En ellas se desarrolla una “historia” de...

Exposition : « A Superb Baroque. Art in Genoa, 1600–1750 », Washington, National Gallery, 26 septembre 2021-9 janvier 2022

A Superb Baroque presents the grandeur of 17th-century Genoa on a scope and scale unprecedented in the United States. Five centuries ago trade and banking transformed the Mediterranean port city of Genoa into a cosmopolitan center of wealth and culture. The newly rich, eager to display their prosperity, invested in constructing and decorating churches, chapels, and palaces. Attracted by lucrative commissions, Rubens, Van Dyck, and other leading painters across Europe swarmed to Genoa. There, they joined...

Appel à contribution : The garden of the gods, Tivoli, 21-22 avril 2022, date limite le 30 septembre 2021

The garden of the gods. The paradigm of antiquity in the arts at the Villa Organised by Andrea Bruciati and Chiara Santini The establishment of humanistic culture in Italy led to one of the richest seasons in Villa architecture and a profound process of transformation of the idea and the function of the garden, in which antiquity was the absolute protagonist. The roots of this development date back to the second half of the fifteenth...

Colloque international : « Venere. Natura Ombra Bellezza », en ligne, le 16 avril 2021

Convegno internazionale di studi dedicato ai diversi aspetti della divinità archetipica dall’antichità alla modernità a cura di Claudia Cieri Via   Nell’ambito delle manifestazioni dedicate al mito di Venere progettate da Fondazione Palazzo Te per il 2021, questo convegno, con relatori di fama internazionale, intende ragionare intorno a questa divinità archetipica, mettendone a fuoco i diversi aspetti: dalle origini classiche del mito alle sopravvivenze nella cultura, nella letteratura mitografica e poetica e nelle immagini fino...

Exposition : « Luca Giordano, dalla Natura alla Pittura », Naples, Museo Capodimonte, jusqu’au 10 janvier 2021

Luca Giordano, dalla Natura alla Pittura (8 ottobre 2020 – 10 gennaio 2021) a cura di Stefano Causa e Patrizia Piscitello Sala Causa (10.00-18.00) Luca resuscita l’antico esempio del Veronese, trasfondendolo in un’atmosfera moderna di oro puro, in polvere iridata, e che indusse il disegnatore De Maria a parlare d’una “scuola ereticale, che faceva traviare dal dritto sentiero, con la dannata libertà di coscienza”: tanto era l’empito di libera pittura che vi sormontava” – Ferdinando Bologna,...

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