The Cernuschi museum, in Paris, presents until the 28th of June 2009, a rare exhibition – “Six centuries of Chinese paintings, works restored by the Cernuschi museum”. It features the greatest painters of the Imperial China, active in the literate Ming circles (1368-1644) or the Qing court (1644-1911).
It also reflects the fate of artists of the early XXth century in China, then
shaken by the beginnings of modernity and historical changes.
Among the Chinese painters tempted by the West, many people, since the
thirties, chose Paris as a venue for training and creation.
The contacts made by the Cernuschi museum with contemporary Chinese artists have allowed the museum to establish a unique collection in the West.
Located on the edge of the Parc Monceau in an elegant building originally designed by its founder Henri Cernuschi (1821-1896) as a small residence for a bachelor, the Cernuschi Museum, inaugurated in 1898, is one of the oldest museums in Paris. It offers visitors a tour of high aesthetic quality through Chinese art…
Through May 2nd, at the galerie Darthea Speyer, in Paris, Roselyne Granet exhibits
some powerful works of art.
Marcelin Pleynet explains: “The movement that lives in the works of the Roselyne Granet is part of a quasi-Baroque lyricism; it is very special and unusual both in modern art and in contemporary art.
Her work retains first because it is inhabited. It creates a world that appeals to our memory … that poetically lives in us. ”
Galerie Darthea Speyer
6 rue Jacques Callot. 75006 Paris
Until the 2nd of May 2009
From Tuesday to Friday:11a.m to 12.45 and from 2 p.m to 7 p.m
Saturday:from 11 p.m to 7 p.m
Until the 6th of June 2009, the Musée du Louvre presents a most interesting collection of artefacts linked to the “Gates of Heaven”. In the Ancient Egyptian language, this expression meant the doors of a sanctuary housing the statue of a divinity.
Symbolizing the passageway into the afterworld, it also applies to other points of contact between the different elements of the universe as conceived by the Egyptians.
Containing about 350 items spanning three millennia, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period, the exhibition endeavours to place everyday objects in their social, religious and artistic context.
Through 6th June 2009
Musée du Louvre
Hall Napoleon
34 Quai du Louvre
75001 Paris
Open daily, except on Mondays, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m, and until 8 p.m on Saturdays and 10 p.m on Wednesdays and Fridays
When she was born in 1755, nothing led Marie-Antoinette to reign in France, but the hazards of European politics decided otherwise. The small Archduchess of Austria married the heir to the crown of France on May 16, 1770…
The figure of Marie-Antoinette has always been subject to many an interpretation: the “Austrian” hungry of expensive pleasures, a “victim” of the etiquette of Versailles, fanatic of macaroons…
By bringing together an outstanding collection of over 300 works (paintings, sculptures, objets d’art…) from across Europe, the exhibition sheds light on the personality and destiny of one of the last queens of France, from the Court of Austria, in Schönbrunn, to the Conciergerie, in Paris.
Grand Palais
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
3, Avenue du Général Eisenhower – 75008 Paris
Tel : 00 33 1 44 13 17 30
