Through June 21, at the Jacquemart-André Museum, the exceptional works collected during the 19th century by the German baron Bernard von Lindenau are shown for the first time in Paris.
The exhibition highlights the succession of major aesthetic trends which deeply transformed Italian art between the second half of the 13th century and the end of the 15th century. The Greek style and Byzantine influence on the one hand and the appearance of the modern style after Giotto and the spread of the international Gothic style on the other, gradually gave way to the Renaissance style.
This anthology of prestigious artists, from Guido da Siena to Liberale di Verona, enables us to see two major schools side by side: the Sienese School, which counts Lippo Memmi, Pietro Lorenzetti and Sano di Pietro amongst its ranks, and the Florentine School, represented, amongst others, by Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio and Filippo Lippi.
A fascinating and rare glimpse of post-medieval painting…
Through 21st of June 2009
Musée Jacquemart-André
158, boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris
Téléphone : 01 45 62 11 59
www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com
Open all year round, between 10 a.m and 6 p.m