The Baroque in Rome
Museum: The Roman Baroque Museum in Ariccia
Interview of Francesco Petrucci
Exhibition: Simon Vouet (The Italian Years 1613/1627)
Publication: Nicolas Régnier
Publication (exhibition catalogue): Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
News: The Tarantino Gallery exhibits Roman Baroque
The Giovanni Bellini exhibition in Rome could have formed a sort of diptych with the one devoted to Mantegna at the Louvre. And yet they are as different as they could possibly be. Whereas the (...)
Until now The Art Tribune had not had the chance to comment on exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Of course, 19th century works did occasionally appear in certain introductory sections (...)
Among the many exhibitions vying for the public’s attention in this particularly busy fall season, the one in Compiègne is without a doubt one of the best, spectacular as well as erudite, (...)
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Generally, the large compositions of the History of Alexander by Charles Le Brun exhibited at the Louvre (and at Versailles) are thought to be preparatory cartoons for tapestries. Actually, these (...)
The exhibition in Basel presents several interesting problems which do not necessarily have anything to do with art history. First of all, the title, a simple marketing ploy, is misleading. This (...)
Picasso et les Maîtres Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 8 October 2008 to 2 February 2009 - Paris, Musée du Louvre, 9 October 2008 to 2 February 2009 - Paris, Musée d’Orsay, 8 October 2008 (...)
Some artists who followed Bastien-Lepage in the Naturalist path opened by him are becoming better known and appreciated (Pelez, Friant, Dagnan-Bouveret, Geoffroy, Debat-Ponsan, as well as foreign (...)
The Kunsthaus in Zurich published the catalogue of its collections in the form of two complementary works late in 2007 and early 2008 for its different translations: the complete catalogue of (...)
Fortunately, the development of databases on Internet in no way hampers the publication of museum catalogues, which continue to flourish. The following is an overview of the most recent ones on (...)
Versailles is currently in the spotlight : the reconstitution of the Grille Royale, a controversial exhibition of Jeff Koons, the restoration of the Petit Trianon…We had written a very critical in (...)
Englishmen passing through Rome on their Grand Tour, the trip through Europe that any true aristocrat had to take, wanted their portrait done by him. This is probably why Pompeo Batoni, one of (...)
Las July, with relatively little fanfare, the Bath of Apollo group was finally brought inside the Petite Ecurie. A longtime Versailles lover, Claude Rozier, was there and took several photographs (...)
By: Bruno Foucart and collected authors
A volume of texts selected by Bruno Foucart was expected in early 2008, but now Norma editions has pleasantly surprised its readers, as well as the author (...)