European tour of museums
- from: 16.07.2008
- to: 30.06.2009
agenda
From July 16th, 2008, to May 20th, 2009
Practical
Throughout France
- the Musée des Beaux-Arts (fine arts museum) in Rennes:
French and northern European artists' stays in Italy, from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
The tour is organized around 64 works belonging to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes: paintings, prints and a majority of drawings by French and northern European artists from the 16th to the 19th century. Thematic, the tour distinguishes between the two major genres of landscape which appeared in the 16th and 17th centuries - the urban view (veduta) and the rural landscape - whose variations and renewals can be traced into the 19th century.
From July 15th to October 5th
http://www.mbar.org
Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs (Fabrics and decorative arts museum),
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, An Italian season in Lyon.
The "Period of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Italian Renaissance fabrics" exhibition, on display at the Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon, turns the spotlight on the aesthetic, historic and economic aspects of the Italian textile industry from the 12th century to the early 17th century, through 158 textiles exclusively from the museum's permanent collections. Other cultural institutions in the city are celebrating Italian culture at the same time: the Musée des Beaux-Arts is devoting an exhibition to the Italian drawings in its collection, and the Musée de Fourvière is displaying the Salerno treasure through a selection of objects, mainly pieces of gold and silver ware, from the Middle Ages to the early 17th century.
From July 22nd to October 19th
http://www.musee-des-tissus.com,
www.mba-lyon.fr
- The Louvre museum:
European works and artists: journeys and exchanges.
This is a focus on around 50 works chosen from various conservation departments in the sections covering Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern period (Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Paintings, Sculptures, Objets d'art), which demonstrate exchanges and mutual benefits within Europe.
From August 1st to December 31st
http://www.louvre.fr
- Musée Saint-Loup, Musée d'Art Moderne, in Troyes.
27 countries, artists and works.
Two museums in Troyes are focussing on 27 works from their collections based around two themes: "Rome! Rome! Influences of Antiquity on Western art" in the case of the Musée Saint-Loup, and "Paris! Paris! The Paris School, a new artistic home" at the Musée d'Art Moderne Donation Pierre & Denise Lévy. Their aim is to present the influences of Antiquity on Western artists from the 15th to the 18th centuries and the many foreign artists who came to Paris to seek inspiration including Picasso, Soutine and Modigliani.
From August 1st to December 31st
www.tourisme-troyes.com
- Musée d'Orsay:
European Schools, convergence and divergence.
A specific tour will enable visitors to learn about European art through the best foreign schools. Both convergences and divergences which characterize the period's art are highlighted. Alongside a study of the main artistic centres in Europe, in particular Brussels, Vienna, Barcelona, Munich, Berlin and Glasgow, the international character of some artistic communities, notably the Pont-Aven school, will also be covered, as an alternative to the concept of so-called national schools.
From September 1st to June 30th
www.musee-orsay.fr
- Musée de la Renaissance at the Château d'Ecouen, Écouen, Val d'Oise
The Renaissance in Europe.
The museum has organized a tour based on artistic and cultural relations in Europe in the 16th century. Various subjects will be covered: the circulation of artistic models, the relationship between decorative arts and major arts, artists' training and inspiration, as well as the influences revealed by the main masterpieces on show. This route will also testify to diplomatic relations between the various European powers through the figures of Charles V, François I, Henri VIII, Philippe II of Spain, etc.
September 20th to December 31st
www.musee-renaissance.fr
- Musée des Instruments à Vent (museum of wind instruments) in La Couture-Boussey (Eure):
An unusual trip through European music.
Four centuries of music are evoked through a dozen men and instruments in this tour offered by the Musée des Instruments à Vent. The German clarinet and the French oboe lead us on the trail of Italian composers from the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from the royal courts, rustic pipes and the double flute take us on a discovery of traditional music. During the Heritage Days, a series of short concerts will illustrate the diversity of musical creation for wind instruments in Europe from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
September 20th to December 31st
http://www.lacoutureboussey.com
- The Louvre museum:
"Family" tour of the Andrea Mantegna exhibition.
The aim of this tour is to help parents teach and raise awareness of art, to explain the main aspects of the work of Mantegna to young visitors. Deliberately selective, this tour aims to impart skills in relation to observation, comparison and analysis of works, while offering major milestones to help locate the work studied in its historic and cultural context.
September 22nd to January 5th
http://www.louvre.fr
- Musée du Moyen-Âge (museum of the Middle Ages) in Paris:
Art in Europe from the 7th to the 12th centuries.
The concept of Europe was forged in the Middle Ages and at the same time as the cultural space and reality of the period were defined and imposed. The Musée du Moyen Âge offers a tour designed to complement its temporary "Celtes and Scandinavians: artistic meetings in the 7th to the 12th centuries" replacing it in a European context, as well as inviting visitors to the permanent collections to discover and understand European art from the 7th to the 12th centuries.
September 30th to December 31st
www.musee-moyenage.fr
- the Château de Compiègne museum:
Tour based around the "Napoleon III and Queen Victoria: a visit to the Universal Exhibition of 1855" exhibition. The Château de Compiègne has put in place an educational tour aimed at pupils and more broadly young accompanied visitors, based around Franco-British relations under the Second Empire. Félix Mornand, special correspondent in 1855 for the Journal des Demoiselles, optimistically announced to his young female readers: "Forty years of peace and exchanges have been enough to reconcile, by revealing them to each other, these two great peoples so full of contrasts, and therefore destined to […] to like, agree with and complement one another." The tour reviews the subtelties of statement.
October 4th to January 19th
www.musee-chateau-compiegne.fr
- National galleries of the Grand Palais:
Picasso and the masters.
The Grand Palais has produced an audioguide in the 23 languages of the European Union, in order to take an exceptional tour based on artists' most international works.
- At the Préau des Accoules, in partnership with the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille:
The School of Painters.
Through the observation of a dozen portraits from the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille (currently closed for works) and fun events based on these works, the tour organized at the Préau des Accoules invites children to discover the artistic trends and exchanges in Europe, the various European Schools and their influences, between the end of the 16th and the early 19th centuries.
From November 19th to May 30th
www.marseille.fr
- Updated: 23.12.2008
