Category: Exhibitions
Rediscovering Edith MacDonald-Brown at the MSVU Art Gallery
March 21 2025
Picture: MSVU Art Gallery
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Interesting news from Canada that the MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax, connected to Mount Saint Vincent University, opened an exhibition last month dedicated to Edith MacDonald-Brown (1886-1954). Believed to be Canada's first black female artist, Edith was born in Africville, a historic African Nova Scotian enclave in Halifax, and produced many of her paintings throughout her teenage years. The show will run in Halifax until 26th April 2025 and click on the link above to read more about her life and career.
Upcoming: Pietro Bellotti at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia
March 21 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia will be opening a large monographic exhibition dedicated to Pietro Bellotti (1625-1700) this September. The show has coincided with the Accademia's acquisition of two works by the artist, including a Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Amazement and another genre scene set in Venice. Supported by loans from major European museums, this is the first exhibition on the artist in Venice since 1959.
It will run from 19th September 2025 until 18th January 2026.
Andrea Appiani at the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau
March 19 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau opened a new exhibition last Sunday on the neoclassical painter Andrea Appiani (1754-1817). With about a hundred paintings, drawings and engravings, the show is the first retrospective on the artist in France.
The exhibition will run until 28th July 2025.
Cornelis de Wael at the Palazzo Bianco
March 19 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Palazzo Bianco in Genoa will be opening a new show on the Flemish emigree artist Cornelis de Wael (1592-1667) today. Under the themes of Naturalness and Truth, the artist's unique contribution alongside the busy artistic scene in Genoa (which included the more celebrated Jan Roos, Giacomo Liege and Van Dyck during this period) will be examined.
The show runs until 22nd June 2025.
Andrea Solario at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli
March 18 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan will be opening their latest exhibition devoted to Andrea Solario later this month (spotted via @Mweilc).
According to the museum's website:
An unprecedented exhibition project dedicated to the painter Andrea Solario (1465-1524), one of the most original interpreters of the Lombard Renaissance, comes to life at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
The exhibition, the result of a scientific collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, brings together for the first time a selection of about 36 works from prestigious collections in Italy, France and England. An unmissable opportunity to admire masterpieces that reveal the technical mastery and stylistic evolution of an artist influenced by great masters such as Giovanni Bellini, Antonello da Messina and Leonardo da Vinci.
The show will run from 26th March until 30th June 2025.
Flowers at Chatsworth
March 17 2025
Picture: with permission from @country_house_curator via Instagram
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Chatsworth, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire, will be celebrating Flowers in this year's temporary exhibition which opened over the weekend. As usual, this is a wonderful chance to see some paintings up close which are usually hung elsewhere (as per these pictures on display in the Sculpture Gallery).
According to their website:
Flowers in all their forms take centre stage in The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth, our 2025 exhibition in the house and garden.
The exhibition features both historical and contemporary works of art from the Devonshire Collections, and is supported by key loans from national and international museums, and new artist commissions.
Inspired by the estate itself, The Gorgeous Nothings builds on the work of an important lineage of landscape designers, gardeners, scientists and botanists who, over the last six centuries have planted, gathered, foraged, researched, collected and preserved an array of botanical treasures at Chatsworth, from rare botanical volumes and illustrated manuscripts in our library to coveted specimens in our garden and grounds.
The display will run until 5th October 2025.
Zurbarán in Barcelona
March 17 2025
Picture: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona are about to open their leg of the travelling exhibition Zurbarán (super) Natural.
According to the museum's website:
The MNAC, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston are collaborating in this exhibition that will bring together for the first time the three versions of Saint Francis of Assisi according to Pope Nicholas V's Vision, a major work by Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). The absolutely exceptional possibility of comparing the three paintings sheds light on each of them. The work preserved by the MNAC has undergone a thorough restoration process that has allowed it to recover its original appearance and bring to light details hidden by the passage of time.
The show will run in Barcelona from 21st March until 29th June 2025.
FRATELLO SOLE, SORELLA LUNA: Nature in Art, from Fra Angelico to Corot
March 14 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery of Umbria will be opening their latest exhibition tomorrow entitled FRATELLO SOLE, SORELLA LUNA: Nature in Art, from Fra Angelico to Corot.
According to the gallery's website:
From 15 March to 15 June 2025, the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia will be hosting the exhibition Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna. Nature in Art, from Fra Beato Angelico to Corot, on the occasion of the eighth centennial of the composition of the Canticle of the Sun by Saint Francis of Assisi. Not only one of the very first works of poetry in old Italian, it was also the first expression of a new relationship with Nature, to which the saint spoke for the first time in terms of intimacy, in an ecological ideal, in the etymological sense of the term, that was to exert an incredible influence on art from the thirteenth century onwards. [...]
[...] the exhibition will present more than eighty works, comprising paintings, drawings, etchings, sculptures and printed volumes by some of the most famous artists from Italian and European art history, such as Pisanello, Stefano da Verona, Paolo Uccello, Jan van Eyck, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Antonello da Messina, Leonardo da Vinci, Leon Battista Alberti, Albrecht Dürer, Lorenzo Lotto, Dosso Dossi, Giambologna, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Domenichino, Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, Salvator Rosa, Giambattista Piranesi, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and many more [...]
Have you spotted these 8 works by female artists?
March 14 2025
Picture: codart.nl
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
CODART (the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art) has shared news that The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent are searching for 8 works by female artists which they'd rather like to have in an upcoming exhibition. This includes pictures by Anna Maria Janssens, Anna Francisca de Bruyns, Louise Hollandine von der Pfalz, Maria Theresia van Thielen (pictured) and Catharina Ykens. Click on the link above to find out more.
Upcoming: Renaissance Jewellery at the Fondation Bemberg
March 14 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse will be opening a new exhibition dedicated to Renaissance Jewellery next month (spotted via @gazettedrouot). The show is the first on the subject in 40 years since the last held at the V&A in London back in the 1980s.
It will run from 4th April until 27th July 2025.
The Leiden Collection on loan to H'ART Museum
March 10 2025
Picture: H'ART Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The H'ART Museum in Amsterdam (formerly known as the Hermitage Amsterdam) will be displaying 75 works on loan from the Leiden Collection from next month onwards.
According to the museum's website:
To celebrate the city’s 750th birthday, eighteen works by Rembrandt – seventeen paintings and one drawing – are shown together in Amsterdam for the first time.
Other renowned artists in the exhibition include Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Ferdinand Bol, Gerard Dou, Frans van Mieris and Maria Schalcken. The cherry on top is a remarkable painting by Johannes Vermeer, restored especially for this occasion. Together, these influential artists paint a vivid picture of daily life in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
Showing off your wealth, strengthening your reputation with a self-portrait, growing old and wrinkled, or indulging in food, drink, literature and music: in 75 artworks, From Rembrandt to Vermeer sketches urban life in all its facets. People are at the heart of these paintings: both young and old, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly.
The show will run from 9th April until 24th August 2025.
Seville Cathedral loaned Botticelli
March 10 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Spain that Seville Cathedral has been loaned a Botticelli from the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, due to their Artemisia Gentileschi being sent for an exhibition in the French capital. Famously, the attribution of the Paris Flight into Egypt had been doubted for a long time until the painting's condition (as it was transferred from panel to canvas) was fully understood.
The painting will be on loan there until 3rd August 2025.
Rubens' Martyrdom of St Andrew on Display at the Prado
March 7 2025
Video: Fundación Carlos de Amberes
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Rubens' monumental Martyrdom of St Andrew has been loaned to the Prado in Madrid whilst the Fundación Carlos de Amberes, its usual home, is undergoing renovation works. Here's a video of the art handlers preparing the work to be shipped (including the painting's enormous crate).
Leonardo – Dürer: Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground
March 7 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Albertina in Vienna will be opened their latest exhibition today entitled Leonardo – Dürer: Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground.
According to their website:
In this exhibition 26 drawings by Albrecht Dürer meet as many works by Leonardo da Vinci. In addition to works by Leonardo and Dürer, the exhibition presents top-class works by Raphael, Titian, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Holbein the Elder and other outstanding Renaissance masters. The starting point for the extensive show is the museum's own collection: around two thirds of the masterpieces on display come from the ALBERTINA Museum. [...]
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to discover this virtuoso technique with top-class works from the museum's own collection as well as important international loans from the Royal Collection Trust Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum New York, the Uffizi in Florence, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, the British Museum and numerous other international collections.
The show will run until 9th June 2025.
Upcoming: Artemisia - Heroine of Art
March 7 2025
Picture: Musée Jacquemart-André
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris will be opening their latest temporary exhibition on the 19th March 2025 entitled Artemisia - Heroine of Art.
According to their website:
The Musée Jacquemart-André will be honouring the Roman artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - circa 1656). As one of the rare female artists of the modern era to have achieved international fame during her lifetime and to have been able to make a living from her painting, this Caravaggesque painter had an extraordinary destiny. Featuring some forty paintings, ranging from the artist’s recognised masterpieces to canvases of recent attribution, as well as paintings rarely shown outside their usual place of conservation, this exhibition highlights Artemisia Gentileschi’s role in the history of 17th century art.
The exhibition aims to demonstrate the profound originality of her work, career and identity, which remain a source of inspiration and fascination to this day. Artemisia’s story spans the centuries, and the reading we can make of her work – a reflection of her experience and resilience – is timeless and universal.
Vermeer's Love Letters at the Frick
March 6 2025
Picture: Frick Collection
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Frick Collection in New York will be celebrating their reopening this summer with an exhibition dedicated to Vermeer's Love Letters.
In the first exhibition to be held in The Frick Collection’s new special exhibition galleries, three works by Johannes Vermeer will be presented from June 18 through September 8, 2025. The unprecedented installation Vermeer’s Love Letters centers on the Frick’s iconic Mistress and Maid, uniting it with two special loans: The Love Letter from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Woman Writing a Letter, with Her Maid from the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Presented together in a single gallery for the first time, this trio of works will offer visitors the opportunity to consider Vermeer’s exploration of themes of letter writing and epistolary exchange in the context of the seventeenth-century domestic settings for which the artist is renowned.
States Xavier F. Salomon, the Frick’s Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, “On the heels of the museum’s public reopening on April 17, it is fitting that we are debuting our new special exhibition galleries with a closer look at the work of Vermeer, one of the most popular artists in our collection. His Mistress and Maid is the final masterpiece that Henry Clay Frick acquired before his death, making this inaugural show a particularly appropriate tribute to his legacy as a collector.”
Uffizi Redisplay Cranach Adam and Eve
March 6 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Uffizi Galleries in Florence have redisplayed and reframed Lucas Cranach the Elder's Adam and Eve for a special display on the second floor of the museum. Although the pair are apparently unrelated, as Cranach and his workshop are known to have produced 50 versions of the composition, the curators had decided to reframe and display them as if they were conceived as a pair (with the tree of knowledge visible in the centre also making this possible).
Rubens loaned to Museo di Capodimonte
March 6 2025
Picture: Corsini Gallery
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Museo di Capodimonte in Naples is being lent Rubens' St. Sebastian Tended to by Angels from the Corsini Gallery in Rome this month for a special display. The painting will be placed in dialogue with works by Giovanni Baglione, Bartolomeo Schedoni, Andrea Vaccaro and Mattia Preti from 11th March onwards.
Lorenzo Lotto at the Carrara Academy of Bergamo
March 4 2025
Picture: Bergamo, Church of San Bernardino in Pignolo
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Italy that the Carrara Academy of Bergamo will be celebrating the 500th year anniversary of Lorenzo Lotto's departure from Bergamo with a special exhibition entitled Inside Lorenzo Lotto - From the San Bernardino Altarpiece to the Photographs of Axel Hütte.
According to Finestre sull'Arte:
In the 500th year since Lorenzo Lotto’s departure from Bergamo, after 12 years of intense activity, the Carrara Academy celebrates the artist by exceptionally hosting the San Bernardino Altarpiece, a masterpiece from the church of the same name located just 500 meters from the museum, which is currently closed to the public. This is an itinerary that, in addition to celebrating the painter, will include an original photographic intervention by Axel Hütte, who will appropriate Lotto’s painting to tell its story through the contemporary language of photography.
The show will run from 11th April until 31st August 2025.
Upcoming: Honey Yellow — The Bee in Art
March 3 2025
Picture: museum-wiesbaden.de
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Museum Wiesbaden in Germany will be opening a rather interesting sounding exhibition in a few days' time entitled Honey Yellow — The Bee in Art From the Renaissance to the Present.
According to their website:
The bee is the popular figure of the 21st century. The major spring exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into the exciting history of the bee in art, from the Renaissance to the present day.
For the first time, this story is being told in an exhibition using top-class works of art. Never before has it been possible to experience the wide variety of roles played by the bee as vividly as in our exhibition. Surprising stories, instructive tales, philosophical ideas and astonishing allegories can be marveled at around this insect. Many of the stories are still touching today, because the bee has always been the inspiration for the visualization of general human feelings and ideals.
The show will run from 7th March until 22nd June 2025.
