Is it an invasion from the north? Yes, but of a rather more gentle kind than we are seeing in Ukraine right now. For several years now, various Paris museums have been spotlighting the work of Nordic artists, notably in … Read More
French cuisine Michelin announced its annual French restaurant awards this week and shocked the world by giving a vegan restaurant named ONA (for “Origine Non Animale”) in the town of Ares one star – this in a country where bacon … Read More
A Vermeer-like feeling of tranquility emanates from many of the paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) on show at the Musée Jacquemart-André. The comparison with Vermeer also springs to mind because Hammershøi painted mostly interior scenes, often with a figure seen through … Read More
Rome has been pillaged, stripped of many of its precious paintings by Caravaggio! Whodunit? The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, to the great joy of Parisians and visitors to the city, who for a time can have the thrill of seeing no … Read More
The title of the exhibition “Rembrandt Intime” at the Musée Jacquemart-André is slightly misleading; although the show does include a number of the artist’s self-portraits (he made around 80) and paintings featuring family members, it goes well beyond the intimate … Read More
The Impressionists Go to the Beach “Étretat: La Porte d’Aval, Bateaux de Pêche Sortant du Port” (c. 1885), by Claude Monet. © Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Photo: François Jay Yet another exhibition on Impressionism? you might well ask yourself. … Read More
Rehabilitating a Renaissance Painter Detail of Perugino’s “Mary Magdalen” (c. 1500-02). © Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città da Firenze The work of the painter Pietro Perugino (c. 1450-1523), … Read More
Stormy Weather Suited ‘King of the Skies’ “Marée Montante à Deauville” (1894). © Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid Eugène Boudin may not have considered himself an Impressionist, but, in a way, this master of light, the … Read More
Postcards from theSerenissima Canaletto’s “Piazza San Marco, Looking East” (1723). © Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, MadridHave you ever felt that you had seen quite enough pretty paintings of Venice by Canaletto and Guardi and that they were all beginning to look alike? … Read More
Picturing the Medici: Power Personified “Portrait of Cosimo I De’Medici” (1560), by Bronzino. © The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA. The year is 1530, the setting is the Florentine court: the scene is set for the return of one of … Read More
