The largest ever private collection of ancient Roman sculptures, assembled throughout the 19th century by Rome's Torlonia princes, is being shown to the public for the first time since the mid-20th century. Here, the marbles will be shown in the summer apartments of Anne of Austria, in conjunction with pieces from the museum’s permanent collection of ancient sculpture.
Connect art and sport in honor of this year's Summer Olympics being held in Paris. Through the prism of the body, anatomy, and athletics, this show highlights nearly 50 works from the museum, spanning antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.
For its first exhibition after more than a year of renovations, the museum presents around forty masterpieces from Rome’s Borghese Gallery. This exceptional partnership includes an ensemble of major works by artists from the Renaissance and Baroque periods rarely loaned outside Italy, from Caravaggio to Rubens, along with works by Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Antonello da Messina, and Bernini.
This show tackles the idea of the grid, showing how artists approach grids that close and enclose, have imbued the grid with with other functions or values, or have tried to contaminate or atomize it.
This major monograph focuses on the first twenty-five years of the career of Chicago-born photographer Barbara Crane (1928-2019). Her work is known for reconciling more straightforward American photography practices with a more experimental sensibility inherited from the European avant-garde.
In her native Norway, Harriet Backer was the most renowned female painter of the late 19th century. Highly acclaimed for her rich, luminous use of color, she created a personal style that blended interior scenes and open-air painting, drawing inspiration from the realist movement as well as from Impressionism.
This retrospective is the first to be devoted to Céline Laguarde, who in the early years of the 20th century established herself as an international name in the first artistic movement in the history of photography: pictorialism.
Designed like a maze, this exhibition is an unprecedented dive into the Surrealist movement, born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto. Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs, and literary documents, the exhibition presents works by the well-known Surrealist artists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Giorgio de Chirico, as well as those by female Surrealists, including Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, and Dora Maar.
Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics demonstrates how the fool came to occupy every available artistic space, insinuating himself into illuminated manuscripts, printed books and engravings, tapestries, paintings, sculptures, and all manner of objects, both precious and mundane.
Centered around Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004), one of the leading figures of the Pop Art movement, this exhibition will feature 150 of his paintings and works in various materials. The exhibition will also show 70 works by 35 artists who share a common sensibility with the idea of Pop, from its Dadaist roots to its contemporary iterations.
Featuring more than 80 works from the 16th to the 21st century, this show traces the history of the representation of reality in the arts and shines a light on Jules and Paul Marmottan’s penchant for this pictorial genre.
The Louvre's Department of Near Eastern Antiquities is hosting ten major works from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art is currently closed for renovation. The Louvre and The Met have created a unique dialogue between these two collections, which is displayed in the Louvre's permanent galleries. These 'special guest' artworks from The Met, dating from between the late 4th millennium BC and the 5th century AD, show some remarkable connections with the Louvre's collection.
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