Category: Exhibitions
Caravaggio's Maffeo Barberini at the Palazzo Barberini
November 22 2024
Video: Il Sole 24 Ore
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Italy that Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini has gone on display at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Maffeo, who eventually became Pope Urban VIII, was a considerable patron of Caravaggio and the arts in general. Curiously, news reports have pointed out that the painting is rarely on public display and that only 'five or six specialists' have seen it (click on the link to read more).
The painting will be on display in Rome until 23rd February 2025.
Spanish Embassy Berninis on loan to Vatican
November 21 2024
Picture: vaticannews.va
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Spanish Embassy to the Holy See have loaned their two famous busts by Bernini to the Vatican Museums for a special exhibition. The two works, depicting the Blessed Soul and Damned Soul, will be the focal point of a display prompted by the current Pope's interests in combining faith and culture. Funds raised by the sales of their catalogue will be donated to help victims of the recent flooding in Spain.
The display will run until 31st January 2025.
Degenerate art: the trial of modern art under Nazism
November 20 2024
Picture: claudinecolin.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée Picasso in Paris will be opening a new exhibition in February 2025 entitled Degenerate art: the trial of modern art under Nazism. This exhibition will be the first in France to tackle the subject.
According to the website sortiraparis.com:
The exhibition looks back at the ideological and methodical offensive waged by the Nazi regime againstmodern art, notably through the infamous Entartete Kunst exhibition held in Munich in 1937. By shedding light on this dark chapter in art history, the exhibition offers an enriched reflection on the attacks on the artistic avant-garde, through emblematic works and an in-depth historical context.
Curated by Johan Popelard, head of the conservation and collections department, and François Dareau, researcher at the Musée Picasso, this exhibition recalls the scale of the Nazi regime's persecution of the arts. More than 20,000 works, including those by figures such as Vincent Van Gogh, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso, were confiscated, destroyed or sold. Major artists such asOtto Dix, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee were stigmatized as representatives of this so-called "degenerate art", culminating in Entartete Kunst, which brought together over 600 works by around a hundred artists.
The show will run from 18th February until 25th May 2025.
Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century at the Galleria Borghese
November 19 2024
Picture: Galleria Borghese
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition opens at the Galleria Borghese in Rome today entitled Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century. Giovan Battista Marino and the Marvelous Passion.
According to the gallery's website:
Following the path offered by the texts of Giovan Battista Marino (1569-1625), the exhibition traces a journey through the great Renaissance and Baroque art, from Titian to Tintoretto, from Correggio to the Carracci, from Rubens to Poussin, celebrating the greatest Italian poet of the 17th century and his 'marvelous' passion for painting.
Curated by Emilio Russo, Patrizia Tosini, and Andrea Zezza, the exhibition focuses on the golden age of the Baroque in painting and literature, a period during which the relationship between the two arts finds perhaps its highest expression in the life and works of the poet.
Known for his poem Adone (1623), centered on the love story between Adonis and Venus, Giovan Battista Marino is also the author of La Galeria (1619), a collection of 624 poetic compositions dedicated to an equal number of works of art, divided between Paintings and Sculptures, Fables and Histories. This collection was crafted with a play of reflections and a continuous expressive challenge between poetic texts and works of art, real or imaginary.
The show will run until 9th February 2025.
Guido Reni and the poets
November 19 2024
Picture: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
It seems that Italian museums are particularly interested in celebrating both paintings and poetry this autumn, as the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna has just opened an exhibition dedicated to exploring the interconnections between writers and artists in Guido Reni's Bologna. The display includes works by painters such as Guido Reni, Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, Agostino and Ludovico Carracci and will run until 16th February 2025.
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael at the Royal Academy
November 18 2024
Video: Euronews
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A quick reminder that the Royal Academy's winter exhibition, entitled Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504, has just opened in London. It will run until 16th February 2025.
Tiziano, Crivelli, Lotto, Guercino e Ciccarello - in Rome
November 18 2024
Picture: Musei Capitolini di Roma
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musei Capitolini in Rome will be opening a new temporary exhibition of six masterpieces on loan from the Pinacoteca Civica di Ancona later this November. The works will include paintings by Titian, Crivelli, Lotto, Guercino and Ciccarello, a loan which has been made possible due to a renovation project being undertaken on their usual home.
The display will run from 25th November 2024 onwards.
Leighton and Landscape
November 14 2024
Picture: Leighton House
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Leighton House in Holland Park will be opening their latest temporary exhibition in a few days' time. Leighton and Landscape: Impressions from Nature will be a celebration of the relatively underappreciated works from nature Lord Leighton undertook on this various travels.
According to the museum's blurb:
This first major exhibition of Frederic Leighton’s small landscape oil sketches, painted en plein air as he travelled, reveals the celebrated Victorian artist in a new light. Discover a spontaneous, experimental artist who took the road less well trodden by his contemporaries, documenting the places he encountered. Created between 1856 up until his death in 1896, many of these delicate artworks will be returning to Leighton's house for the first time over 120 years, including new acquisition Bay of Cádiz, Moonlight (1866).
The show will run from 16th November 2024 until 27th April 2025.
The Enigma of Watteau's Pierrot
November 14 2024
Video: Louvre
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Louvre in Paris published this rather fascinating video a couple of weeks ago dedicated to the enigma of Jean-Antoine Watteau's famous Pierrot. The video also examines the recent conservation of the painting, which appears to have been rather visually transformative.
The museum's current exhibition on the work, entitled A New Look at Watteau, runs until 3rd February 2025.
Spanish State Insure €134m worth of El Grecos for 2025 Prado Exhibition
November 14 2024
Picture: Santo Domingo el Antiguo, Toledo
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Here's an interesting story which has made the headlines in Spain (spotted via @MarteVelazquez), and a part of the loan exhibition world you usually don't often hear much about publicly. The Spanish Ministry of Culture has disclosed that it has insured €134m worth of paintings by El Greco for an upcoming exhibition at the Prado in 2025. This tremendous sum is for the loan of a total of four works, three from the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo (pictured), Spain, and one from the Art Institute in Chicago.
This is in preparation of an exhibition in Madrid which will focus on the works commissioned for the aforementioned Church in Toledo and is set to run from February to June 2025.
Italian Renaissance Drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen at the Fondation Custodia
November 11 2024
Picture: Fondation Custodia
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
This autumn seems to be the season for Old Master Drawings exhibitions! The Fondation Custodia in Paris opened a new show last month dedicated to Italian Renaissance Drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
According to the museum's website:
The aim of the exhibition is to reveal those talented draughtsmen whose artistic innovations were at the core of the Italian Renaissance. Pisanello, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Veronese, Correggio... Thanks to recent research carried out at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in collaboration with international experts and the Fondation Custodia, a number of important discoveries have been made regarding the drawings and some have been re-attributed to leading artists including Pontormo, Federico Zuccari, Aurelio Lomi and Pellegrino Tibaldi.
Drawings made by some of the early fifteenth-century precursors of the Italian Renaissance, today of the greatest rarity, are one of the salient features of the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Several studies by Pisanello, Parri Spinelli and Benozzo Gozzoli open the exhibition in an impressive way. From then on, the pre-eminent centres of Florence and Venice take over. These were the principal hubs of artistic creation at the time and indeed dominate the Rotterdam collection. The museum is famous for its exceptional collection of 400 drawings by the Florentine painter Fra Bartolommeo, thirteen of which are presented in Paris. Venice is not far behind and the exhibition contains work by its greatest representatives: Vittore Carpaccio, Gentile Bellini, Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto and their workshops, as well as that of the Bassano family.
The exhibition will run until 12th January 2025.
Barocci altarpiece sent to the Palazzo Marino for Christmas
November 11 2024
Picture: comune.milano.it
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Palazzo Marino in Milan is being lent The Madonna of San Simone by Federico Barocci for the Christmas period. The picture, usually found within the collections of Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino, will be part of a free display which runs from 4th December 2024 until 12th January.
Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes - at the Neue Galerie
November 11 2024
Video: Neue Galerie
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
I missed the news last month that the Neue Galerie in New York have just opened their latest exhibition entitled Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes, a display which focuses on the artist's attention to nature throughout his career. The show will run until 13th January 2025.
Video Tour: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350
November 11 2024
Video: MET
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
I'm a little late to this video tour of the MET in New York's recently opened exhibition entitled Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.
The show will run in NYC until 26th January 2025 and will then head to the National Gallery in London in March 2025.
Dürer to Van Dyck - Drawings from Chatsworth House
November 10 2024
Picture: National Galleries Scotland
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Galleries of Scotland have just opened a new exhibition (at the RSA) of early drawings on loan from Chatsworth, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire. Alongside the works on paper is also the recently cleaned double portrait en grisaille of Rubens & Van Dyck, which was recently returned to Chatsworth after being stolen in 1979.
According to the gallery's website:
A spectacular group of some 50 Flemish, Dutch, Early Netherlandish, and German drawings and watercolours, spanning from about 1500 to 1700, will be exhibited in Scotland for the first time. They have been selected from the collection of drawings at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, home to the Devonshire family, one of the finest and most significant holdings of drawings anywhere in the world. This exhibition is exclusive to the National Galleries of Scotland and will not travel elsewhere. Look forward to stunning drawings by, among others, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, alongside no less than eleven works by Anthony van Dyck, and nine by Rembrandt.
The show will run until 23rd February 2025.
Living with the Gods at the MFA Houston
November 9 2024
Video: MFA Houston
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston have just recently opened a new exhibition entitled Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples.
Here's a blurb from their website:
How has humanity given form to spiritual beliefs across time and cultures? Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples explores that quest in an expansive exhibition featuring more than 200 objects from the past 4,000 years.
As a capstone for the Museum’s centennial year, British art historian and former museum director Neil MacGregor was invited to revisit his 2017 BBC radio series and book of the same title, bringing that vision to the MFAH collections, along with many exceptional loans from museums and private collections.
Displayed in dialogue across a suite of 11 galleries, masterpieces in the installation explore elemental themes: the cosmos, light, water, and fire; the mysteries of life and death; the divine word; and pilgrimage. Living with the Gods includes ancient, historic, and contemporary works drawn from regions across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas.
The show will run until 20th January 2025.
Greuze at Galerie Eric Coatalem
November 8 2024
Picture: Galerie Eric Coatalem
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
For readers who might be travelling through Paris this month and next, the dealers Galerie Eric Coatalem have a special Greuze exhibition on display at present. Featuring 59 works, including drawings and paintings, the display will run until 20th December 2024.
Click here to view their catalogue for the exhibition, which has been published for free online!
Michael Sweerts. Realities and Mysteries in Seventeenth-Century Rome
November 8 2024
Picture: finestresullarte.info
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition dedicated to Michael Sweerts has opened at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome today. The show features 13 works by the artist, mostly on loan from Italian collections, and contains new information about the painter and his contemporaries drawn from recent archival research.
The exhibition will run until 18th January 2025.
Woof in King's Lynn
October 1 2024
Picture: Lynn Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Hot on the paws of the Wallace Collection's wildly successful 2023 dog exhibition is the Lynn Museum in Norfolk's new show entitled Woof: A Celebration of Dogs which opens today.
According the museum's website:
Drawing on Norfolk Museums Service's extensive collections, alongside significant loans, the exhibition includes natural history, archaeology, and art works of both local and national importance - including works by renowned artists Sir Edwin Landseer, Andy Warhol and David Hockney.
Probably the first animal to be domesticated, dogs have been our constant companions for many millennia building an extraordinary bond with humans. Discover how ancient artefacts depicted dogs or wolves from myth and legend including a Roman coin, an Egyptian cartonnage (part of the coffin for a mummy), and an Anglo-Saxon urn.
Explore how artists have celebrated dogs in their role as pets and companions or portrayed their noble and symbolic qualities - from a tender painting of a spaniel curled up in the lap of a young girl, to Andy Warhol's colourful pop-art portrait of a friend's pooch, to a Newfoundland famous for his life-saving exploits.
The show will run until 29th June 2025 - providing readers with ample opportunity to discover the surrounding areas of King's Lynn too!
Torcuato Ruiz del Peral Exhibition in Granada
October 1 2024
Picture: museosdeandalucia.es
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition has recently opened at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada celebrating the career of the sculptor Torcuato Ruiz del Peral (1708-1773). Considered one of the last great sculptors in the grand Baroque manner, the show draws on works from private and public institutions in order to mark the 250th anniversary of his death.
The display will run until 5th January 2025.
