A Louvre on the Move
Sunday November 12, 2006
Two More Parisian Exhibitions Coming to North America
by Stan Parchin
Atlanta, Georgia's High Museum of Art, in cooperation with France's Musée du Louvre, has already debuted two critically acclaimed special exhibitions devoted to the revered French institution's magnificent art collections. More are yet to follow as part of a splendid three-year transatlantic arrangement. Now comes word that France's premiere repository of world art will part with more of its masterpieces temporarily, sending them to two other North American destinations.
Artisans & Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre will take up residence at the Denver Art Museum's new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946), from October 6, 2007 to January 8, 2008. Antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings and sculptures, acquired by French monarchs of the Ancien Régime, will describe three rulers' artistic tastes and intellectual pursuits. The artists Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Titian (ca. 1490-1576), Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) will figure prominently in the exhibition. The show will examine the culture of Baroque France during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715), le roi soleil, as well as the decadent Rococo age of the Sun King's eighteenth-century successors. Selected artworks from the Louvre's Atlanta exhibitions will travel to Denver for this show.
The 400th anniversary of Québec City's founding by French explorer Samuel de Champlain (ca. 1567-1635) will be a grand event in Canada. The Musée du Louvre will generously loan more than 270 works of art from its renowned collections to Canada's Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec for The Louvre in Québec: Arts and Life from June 5 to October 26, 2008. Amazing works from antiquity through the middle of the Nineteenth Century will be culled from the French museum for this wonderful exhibition. Some emphasis will be placed on the courtly world of Henri IV (1553-1610), Champlain's sponsor and the assassinated Bourbon king of France. Henri IV's best known for his Edict of Nantes (1598), a royal decree that guaranteed limited religious liberties to France's Huguenots (Protestants).
Image credits:
Pyramide du Louvre (nuit)
Arch. I.M. Pei
© Claire Trochu
Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)
The Infanta Margarita, 1654
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 23 7/8 in.
© Musée du Louvre
by Stan Parchin
Atlanta, Georgia's High Museum of Art, in cooperation with France's Musée du Louvre, has already debuted two critically acclaimed special exhibitions devoted to the revered French institution's magnificent art collections. More are yet to follow as part of a splendid three-year transatlantic arrangement. Now comes word that France's premiere repository of world art will part with more of its masterpieces temporarily, sending them to two other North American destinations.
Artisans & Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre will take up residence at the Denver Art Museum's new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946), from October 6, 2007 to January 8, 2008. Antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings and sculptures, acquired by French monarchs of the Ancien Régime, will describe three rulers' artistic tastes and intellectual pursuits. The artists Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Titian (ca. 1490-1576), Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) will figure prominently in the exhibition. The show will examine the culture of Baroque France during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715), le roi soleil, as well as the decadent Rococo age of the Sun King's eighteenth-century successors. Selected artworks from the Louvre's Atlanta exhibitions will travel to Denver for this show.
The 400th anniversary of Québec City's founding by French explorer Samuel de Champlain (ca. 1567-1635) will be a grand event in Canada. The Musée du Louvre will generously loan more than 270 works of art from its renowned collections to Canada's Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec for The Louvre in Québec: Arts and Life from June 5 to October 26, 2008. Amazing works from antiquity through the middle of the Nineteenth Century will be culled from the French museum for this wonderful exhibition. Some emphasis will be placed on the courtly world of Henri IV (1553-1610), Champlain's sponsor and the assassinated Bourbon king of France. Henri IV's best known for his Edict of Nantes (1598), a royal decree that guaranteed limited religious liberties to France's Huguenots (Protestants).
Image credits:
Pyramide du Louvre (nuit)
Arch. I.M. Pei
© Claire Trochu
Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)
The Infanta Margarita, 1654
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 23 7/8 in.
© Musée du Louvre
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