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Paris Exhibitions of the Past
The Paris Mayor’s office has a list of Paris museums and their links to check for current exhibitions. You can also check for current exhibitions at the city/municipal museums. The Paris Tourist Office provides a list of museums. And l’Officiel des spectacles provides museum information in their weekly magazine and online (Use Google Translate.) The following two exhibits are at the same Hotel de Ville – one entrance fronts rue de Rivoli and the other is around the corner on the street, Lobau. The Impressionists at the Hotel de Ville Until July 23, 2011. “During its renovation work, the Musée d’Orsay is loaning out several dozen canvases and drawings. Most…
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When Renaissance goes Modern in Paris
The introduction to the television series Desperate Housewives is recognizable by its branding image: Adam and Eve under a tree. Lucas Cranach, the Elder, painted it. You may have heard of the Louvre’s fund raiser to purchase “Les Trois Grâces” for four million euros. They succeeded. The artist? Lucas Cranach, the Elder. Although his is not a household name you have just been introduced to a modern style painter of the Renaissance. The Musée du Luxembourg, after a French Senate shutdown in 2010, inaugurated its reopening on February 9, 2011 with an exhibit of a major figure in the German Renaissance, Lucas Cranach (1472-1553). His early woodcut drawings are reminiscent…
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