SEE ITALY AND DIE

The "Grand Tour" puts photograpy and pinting to the test in the 19th century


MUSEE D'ORSAY - From 7 April to 19 July 2009

During the siecle des Lumieres the "Grand Tour" was a long trip taken by young people from the upper classes of European society, intended to complete their education; However, this practice did not vanish at the end of the 18th century and resisted the emergence of atlernatives to the Italie aesthetic model, Italy being its principal destination. Even after 1850, its popularity amongst artists and simple tourists increased in an impressive fashion, aided by the development of both communication means and photography. The attraction of the beauty of Virgil's as yet untouched homeland saw vast artistic output.



The exhibition presents these works, revealing the recurrent themes and fantasies: archaeological and ancient remains, the major european cultural sites and the contemporary population's lasting attachement to the ancient world.

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"THE GATES OF HEAVEN" : VISIONS OF THE WORLD IN ANCIENT EGYPT

MUSEE DU LOUVRE - From 6 March to June 2009



In the language of the ancient Egyptians, the Gates of Heaven refer to the doors of the tabernacle housing the statue of a god. Symbolising the point of entry to another world, this phrase also applies to other elements of the egyptian universe. The exhibition invites you to a journey through these worlds, passing through the gates of heaven, the heavens being both the perceptible space visible from Earth and the dimension housing the divine.
The event presents more than 300 works covering the periodes from the pre-dynastic era to Roman times, replacing the objects in their social religious and artistic context.

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ITALIAN PRIMITIVES

MUSEE JACQUEMART-ANDRE- from 11 march to june 2009

The museum is home to the collection of Italian primitive masterpieces assembles at the start of the 19th century by the German baron Bernard von Lindenau. There are over fifty paintings in all, produced by the greatest masters of the pre-Renaissance and the first Italian Renaissance - Giudo da Siena, Pietro Lorenzetti, Bernardo Daddi, Lorenzo Monaco, Fra Angelica, Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli. The whole collection underlines the richness and great diversity of the mystically poetic works.

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MY DEAR RABBIT

MUSEE DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA NATURE. From April to Semptember 2009

The representation, throughout the history of art, of highly-symbolic animal : the rabbit. The work. The works-notably contemporary-on show at the exhibition, reveal its two faced nature. A creature capable of metamorphosing into an obese, deam-like, transgenic puppet, provoking urges and revealing anxiety. In a period of re-examination of human nature, the contemporary rabbit has the magical powers of a chameleon:switching from tender and feminine to wild or even robotic.

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