This exhibition is coordinated with a major international exhibition, "Entre Moyen Age et Renaissance France 1500," organized by the Réunion des musées nationaux (Paris) and the Art Institute of Chicago. The museum exhibition takes place first in Paris (Grand Palais, October 6, 2010 to January 10, 2011) and then in Chicago (February 26, 2011 to May 30, 2011). Our exhibition brings together approximately 45 diverse works that include manuscripts, Books of Hours, single leaves and cuttings, coffrets with early xylographs, and stained glass. The many themes our exhibition touches on--French Humanism and Royal Patronage, the Dominance of Paris, the Influence of Italy and the North, Other Centers, etc.-encourage a re-appreciation of the flourishing of the arts at the dawn of the Renaissance. There is a fully illustrated catalogue
describing all the works exhibited. The decades on either side of the year 1500 cover a period of great stability and prosperity in France, whereas Italy was a political vacuum, albeit one viewed by its northern neighbors as a "lost paradise." Works included in the exhibition span the entire reigns of two kings, Charles VIII (1470-1498, reigned 1483) and Louis XII (1462-1515, reigned 1478), and parts of the reigns of their predecessors and successors, Louis XI (1442-1483, reigned 1463) and Francis I (1494-1547, reigned 1514). In addition to these kings, the reigning Queens were significant patrons of the arts during the period: especially Anne of Brittany, married to two successive kings, Charles VIII and Louis XII; Charlotte of Savoy, married to Louis XI and Claude de France, the first wife of Francis I.
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Le Louvre des Antiquaires, 2 Place du Palais-Royal, 75001 Paris (France)
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14 окт 2024
