Category: Exhibitions
Frans Hals: The Male Portrait
July 29 2021
Picture: Bloomsbury
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Although the Wallace Collection's upcoming exhibition Frans Hals The Male Portrait opens on 22nd September 2021, Bloomsbury have already made their accompanying book available for pre-order. The publication is the work of Lelia Packer and Ashok Roy.
According to the book's blurb:
Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent seventeenth-century Dutch artists. Published to coincide with the Wallace Collection's exhibition of the same name, Frans Hals: The Male Portrait explores the artist's highly innovative approach to male portraiture, from the beginning of his career in the 1610s until the end of his life in 1666.
Through pose, expression and virtuosic painterly technique, Hals revolutionised the male portrait into something entirely new and fresh, capturing and revealing his sitters' characters like no one else before him. This book includes the first in-depth study of Hals's great masterpiece, The Laughing Cavalier, from 1624. The extravagantly dressed young man, confidently posed with his left arm akimbo in the extreme foreground of the picture and seemingly penetrating into the viewer's space, has been charming audiences for over a century.
Richly illustrated, Frans Hals: The Male Portrait situates The Laughing Cavalier within the artist's larger oeuvre and demonstrates how, at a relatively early point in his career, Hals was able to achieve this great masterpiece.
Barok in Teylers
July 28 2021
Picture: Teylers Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Teylers Museum in Haarlem opened their latest exhibition last month dedicated to Italian Baroque Drawings from their collection. Barok in Teylers will feature important works on paper by the likes of Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino, Salvator Rosa and Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, many of which were acquired from renowned collections in the late eighteenth century.
The show will run until 7th November 2021.
Rembrandt Exhibition in Warsaw
July 27 2021
Video: Zamek Królewski w Warszawie - Muzeum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Royal Castle in Warsaw has recently opened their latest exhibition entitled Rembrandt's World. Artists. Burghers. Explorers.
According to the exhibition blurb:
Girl in the Picture Frame and Scholar at His Writing Table by Rembrandt are the jewels of the art collection in The Royal Castle in Warsaw. They are also among top most precious paintings in Poland. This summer both masterpieces are exhibited among over 200 artworks that were created in the Age of Rembrandt. The exhibits come from Polish state museums and libraries as well as from private collections. All the artworks had been carefully chosen to illustrate the background of Rembrandt’s life and thus enable better understanding of his art. Exhibition focuses on several topics: Power, War, Dutch Landscape, Colonies, Science, Religion and Philosophy, Burgher’s Home, Art and Culture, Entertainment. Each room presents a single engraving by Rembrandt which is a point of reference for other exhibits. Rembrandt himself – through his engravings – acts as a discreet guide leading us through the exhibition. Due to the fact, that the engravings should not be exposed for a long time to the light, they will be replaced by another set of Rembrandt’s graphics at the beginning of the August.
In the video above the Polish photographer Andrzej Dragan attempts to recreate a Rembrandt in film.
The show will run until 19th September 2021.
Wallace Collection to Loan Poussin for First Time in 121 Years
July 27 2021
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
As I suspected back in April, the Wallace Collection in London has announced that Poussin's Dance to the Music of Time will be loaned to the National Gallery's October exhibition Poussin and the Dance. This will be the first time the work has been loaned in 121 years as the trustees of museum overturned the rules of Lady Wallace's 1897 bequest a few years ago.
According to the press release:
Over twenty paintings and drawings from public and private collections in Europe and the USA, including the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (The Empire of Flora, 1630-31); The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (The Triumph of Bacchus, 1635-36); Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Bacchus and Ariadne, 1625-1626); the National Galleries of Scotland (Study for A Dance to the Music of Time, ca.1634) and a series of drawings generously lent by Her Majesty the Queen, will be shown for the first time alongside some of the celebrated Classical antiquities that inspired them: The Borghese Vase, first century CE and The Borghese Dancers, second century CE, both from the Musée du Louvre, Paris. These works are being seen together for the first time in a generation and will allow visitors to trace Poussin’s influences and the sophisticated translations he made between marble, paint and paper.
Tate Unveil 2022 Programme
July 27 2021
Picture: Tate
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Tate in London have unveiled their 2022 programme of exhibitions. Tate Britain will host two retrospectives dedicated to Walter Sickert (pictured) and Cornelia Parker. In addition, Tate modern will have large shows dedicated to Surrealism and Cézanne respectively.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
