Category: Exhibitions
Family & Friends: Reynolds at Port Eliot
July 26 2021
Picture: The Box Plymouth
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Box Plymouth have just opened a fascinating sounding exhibition entitled Family & Friends: Reynolds at Port Eliot.
According to the exhibition blurb:
15 miles west of Plymouth in the Cornish countryside stands Port Eliot. Home to the Eliot family since 1565, the house contains the largest surviving group of early portraits by Joshua Reynolds in the South West. In 2007, many of them joined The Box’s permanent collections through the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu Scheme.
In this exhibition we use 14 of the 23 works that were acquired in 2007 to explore the relationship between Reynolds and the Eliot family - a relationship that began at the dawn of Reynolds’ artistic career, and ended with Edward, 1st Lord Eliot carrying his coffin into St Paul’s Cathedral almost 50 years later. After Reynolds’ death, the family continued to seek out his work for their home.
Here's a longer piece on the exhibition that has appeared in the Cornish & Devon Post.
The show will run until 5th September 2021.
Exhibition on the Inferno in Rome
July 23 2021
Picture: finestresullarte.info
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Scuderie del Quirinale will be opening their latest exhibition in September on the persistence of the iconography from Dante's Inferno. The highlight of the show will be the loan of Sandro Botticelli's The Abyss of Hell, alongside other works by the likes of Beato Angelico, Heronimus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, Auguste Rodin, Paul Cézanne, Franz von Stuck, Giacomo Balla, Otto Dix, Boris Taslitzky, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer.
The show will run from 15th October 2021 till 9th January 2022.
Hogarth to Hitchens at Cannon Hall Museum
July 23 2021
Picture: Cannon Hall Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Cannon Hall Museum near Barnsley has an interesting exhibition running over the summer. Hogarth to Hitchens is a free exhibition dedicated to highlighting the British paintings in their collections.
According to the museum's blurb:
Following on from our successful exhibition of paintings by Dutch artists, this exhibition brings together works by British artists from the collections at Cannon Hall Museum. Themes of portraiture and landscape pictures by local and national artists ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries are on display.
The art of capturing a likeness is an ancient skill. William Hogarth is best remembered for his satirical paintings and prints but was also a well-respected portrait painter. His elegant Portrait of a Lady is a highlight of the exhibition. John Constable was also a skilled portrait painter and his painting of Mrs Tuder shows the sitters’ character as well as her wealth and status.
Landscape painting as a distinct form of art developed in the eighteenth century and led many British artists to capture and celebrate the countryside. Artists such as David Roberts travelled extensively and painted the landscapes of North Africa and Europe with Rome being a popular destination. Modern representations of landscape have often included a bolder use of colour and form such as the innovative work of Ivon Hitchens.
In the exhibition there are a number of works by local artists who established national reputations, such as Abel Hold, Joe Scarborough and new additions to the collection by Gertrude Crompton.
The exhibition will run until 7th November 2021.
Vermeer in Dresden
July 23 2021
Video: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
It seems like the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden is the latest institution to use 3D image manipulation to bring an old master to life. This short video is promoting their latest Vermeer exhibition which has been postponed until September 2021.
Better Late than Never...
July 21 2021
Picture: Louvre
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Russia that the Louvre's La Belle Jardinière by Raphael has finally made it to Saint Petersburg. The painting was due to be included within their recent Raphael exhibition that opened last year, however, 'difficulties encountered at customs' prevented this from happening.
The painting will be on display in the State Hermitage Museum from today until 19th September 2021.
'600 - '700 Venetian Art
July 21 2021
Picture: ansa.it
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice will be hosting a large-scale exhibition dedicated to seventeenth and eighteenth century Venetian painting later this autumn. The show will feature 63 works including newly restored canvases by the likes of Tiepolo (pictured), Luca Giordano and Gianantonio Guardi. Press reports claim the entire exhibition, with the various restoration projects, have been funded by the organisation Venetian Heritage.
The exhibition will open in September 2021.
Exhibition Dedicated to Art Recovered by Italian Police
July 16 2021
Picture: beniculturali.it
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Regular readers of AHN will know that the Italian Police seem to excell in press photographs showing off recovered cultural artifacts.
Their efforts are being celebrated in a new exhibition held in Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo. Il mondo salverà la bellezza? / Will the World Save Beauty? will feature recovered artworks by the likes of Bruegel and Veronese all in an effort to highlight the war against art theft. Furthermore, the exhibition will also contain displays of new prevention and safeguarding systems in use at museums around Italy.*
The show opened on 12th July and will run until 4th November 2021.
* - Seems like the perfect place for art criminals to swat up, don't you think?
Private Visit: Le retour des portraits de la Renaissance
July 15 2021
Video: Scribe Accroupi
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Here's another brilliant private viewing (in French) of the latest exhibition at the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau in France entitled Le retour des portraits de la Renaissance. This presentation is delivered by Mathieu Deldicque, curator of the musée Condé
The exhibition features renaissance portraits from the collection of the Marquis de Biencourt, a former owner of the Château, and will run until 19th September 2021.
Paolo Veneziano Exhibition at the Getty Museum
July 13 2021
Picture: Worcester Art Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Getty Museum's new exhibition Paolo Veneziano Art & Devotion in 14th-Century Venice opened today in Los Angeles. In particular, this exhibition will reunite for the first time several dispersed fragments of two rare surviving altar pieces. Another significant loan includes an intact triptych from the National Gallery of Parma in Italy. The show will run until 3rd October 2021.
Here's a full write-up from The Art Newspaper.
Ferdinand-Philippe d’Orléans - Images d’un prince idéal
July 12 2021
Picture: Musée Ingres Bourdelle à Montauban
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée Ingres in Montauban, France, have recently opened their latest exhibition dedicated to the patronage and collection of Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans (1810–1842). The exhibition, in collaboration with the Louvre, contains over 200 works of art including examples of his patronage of the likes of Ingres, Barye, Delacroix, Scheffer and Corot.
Tate Britain sends 100+ works to Shanghai
July 9 2021
Video: shanghaieye
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition entitled Light opened yesterday at the Museum of Art of Pudong in Shanghai, China. The show features over one hundred works from the collection of Tate Britain, including important works by the likes of Constable, Monet, John Martin and Millais. Their temporary home, a vast complex on the Huangpu River, was recently completed after an investment of 1.3 billion yuan (US$201 million).
Light will run until 14th November 2021.
Portrait Exhibition in Galleria Sabauda Turin
July 9 2021
Picture: finestresullarte.info
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition has opened yesterday at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. The show will feature little known portraits from the Savoy Royal Collections and has been curated by History of Art Master's Degree Students in the city. Themes explored within the exhibition include the image of power, the women's court, family ties, childhood and international alliances.
The show will last until 7th November 2021.
Antoine de Lohny Exhibition in Susa
July 9 2021
Picture: settimanalelancora.it
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
An exhibition dedicated to the fifteenth century artist Antoine de Lonhy (active 1460 - 1490) opens in the Museo Diocesano in Susa, Piedmont, tomorrow. De Lonhy was both a painter, illuminator, designer of stained glass and a sculptor. The show will bring together fourty works by the artist from public and private collections, many of which have never been displayed before.
The second leg of the exhibition will open in Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin on 23rd September 2021 and run until 9th January 2022.
BELLUM ET ARTES in Dresden
July 8 2021
Video: SKD Dresden
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden have opened a new exhibition today focusing on the role of War and Art during the Thirty Years' War.
According to the exhibition's blurb:
The convulsing war between 1618 and 1648 is one of the great traumas of European history. Famine, death and disease brought immense suffering and economic hardship; yet even during this decades-long struggle for religious dominance and political hegemony in Europe, art production did not come to a standstill. Works of art continued to fulfil a variety of functions, serving as representations of power, being exchanged as diplomatic gifts, documenting military encounters, and urging peace.
The show will run until 4th October 2021.
Potential Dürer (?) to be featured in Aachen Exhibition
July 5 2021
Picture: The Times
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Times published an interesting article on Saturday relating to the above painting which will be featured in the current Dürer exhibition in Aachen. The picture was bought at auction in the 1980s by the late Sebastian Thewes who has spent decades trying to prove that this is an autograph work by the German master. Lots of interesting analysis has been put forward, including dendrochronology which places the panel at c.1521. The work will be included in the show catalogued as 'by an unknown painter', however, the article invites the possibility that Dürer experts might use this opportunity to reappraise the work.
Private View of the Velázquez Exhibition
July 3 2021
Video: Scribe Accroupi
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A curator tour of the Velázquez exhibition in Orleans has been uploaded onto YouTube.
Borrowed Gems from the Taft Museum of Art
July 1 2021
Picture: Taft Museum of Art
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Cincinati Museum Center will be opening a special exhibition next month featuring 40 works of art loaned from the Taft Museum of Art. Borrowed Gems from the Taft Museum of Art was made possible due to a major renovation project at the Taft Museum, a collection bequeathed to the people of Cincinati by Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft in 1927. Artworks on display will include paintings by the likes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles François Daubigny, J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Gainsborough, in addition to decorative arts featuring Qing dynasty Chinese ceramics and 18th-century watches.
The exhibition will run from 27th July 2021 - 21st February 2022.
Monet Exhibition in Seattle
July 1 2021
Video: Seattle Art Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Seattle Art Museum have opened their latest exhibition today. Monet at Étretat will examine artworks created during the artist's trips to the Normandy coast during the 1880s. It contains 10 works by Monet himself, alongside 12 works by other contemporaries.
Here's the review of the exhibition from The Seattle Times.
The show will run until 17th October 2021.
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Courtauld Announces Van Gogh Exhibition for 2022
July 1 2021
Picture: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Courtauld Gallery in London have announced that they will be hosting an exhibition of Van Gogh's Self-Portraits in 2022. The show, which will open in February 2022, will feature 15 of the artist's works including major loans from the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery, London.
The exhibition is expected to run from 3rd February - 8th May 2022.
Mode schauen in Schloss Ambras
June 30 2021
Picture: schlossambras-innsbruck.at
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck, Austria, is the latest museum to put on an exhibition dedicated to the history of fashion and painting. Mode schauen examines the relationship between clothing and art using Renaissance and Baroque portraits from the Habsburg Portrait Gallery in the castle and loans from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
It is well worth having a look at the exhibition's website (you'll need to use a translator if you don't speak German), which is filled with lots of information and images which deal with the main themes of the show.
Mode schauen will run from 17th June - 3rd October 2021.
