posted by Charles H. Russo on Oct 20
Two big exhibits are coming out today in Atlanta’s renowned High Museum: Inspiring Impressionism, a survey of Old Masters from Monet to Rubens, and The Louvre and the Ancient World, the second installment of the phenomenal partnership between the High and the Louvre.
The Impressionist exhibit lasts only until Jan. 13 but is still a great activity for your people when they’re having a free day, and the $12 (senior citizen) ticket price includes a free audio guide. The Louvre exhibit still has some time for planning, running through September 2008.
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Inspiring Impressionism
October 16, 2007–January 13, 2008
“Inspiring Impressionism,” the first comprehensive survey to explore the influence of Old Master painters on Impressionist artists, opens at the High Museum of Art on October 16, 2007. This groundbreaking exhibition juxtaposes works by such artists as Monet, C?zanne and Degas with those by Titian, Rubens and Fragonard to explore the impact that 17th-century Dutch and Spanish Schools and the French Rococo style had on 19th-century French Impressionism.
“Inspiring Impressionism” features 86 works, including paintings and works on paper, drawn from more than 40 museums, some of which have never traveled to the United States. Organized by the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition will remain on view in Atlanta through January 13, 2008, and subsequently will travel to the Seattle Art Museum.
The Louvre and the Ancient World & The Eye of Josephine
October 16, 2007–September 7, 2008
This exhibition features masterpieces from the founding cultures of Western civilization and will include more than 70 works from the Louvre’s unparalleled Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities collections. Showcasing works dating from the third millennium BC through the third century AD, the exhibition will examine the rise of the museum and its collections of antiquities under Napoleon, the discoveries and decipherment of hieroglyphics and cuneiform and the Louvre’s leading role in excavating the cradle of civilization at the end of the 19th century and during the 20th century. A special installation will showcase the colossal, ten-foot-long “Tiber”—one of the largest sculptures in the Louvre’s collections. The statue, which has not left the museum since it was acquired in 1803, personifies the Tiber River, Rome’s main trade artery.
“The Eye of Josephine,” on view through May 18, 2008, will reassemble more than 60 masterworks from the collection of Greco-Roman and Egyptian antiquities that were installed by the Empress Josephine Bonaparte at Malmaison, her residence located on the outskirts of Paris. In 1801 Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, gave Napoleon Bonaparte a collection of antiquities unearthed at Herculaneum and Pompeii as a peace offering, which Napoleon in turn gave to his wife, Josephine. The exhibition, which will reunite Josephine’s antiquities for the first time since their dispersal among the Louvre’s various collections in 1814, will feature fragments of frescoes, bronzes, marbles, an extensive group of Greek vases and a small number of Egyptian sculptures.
Contact: www.High.org
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