The parisian nights of Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Jane Avril

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril (Before Letters). 1893
Color Lithography, 124×91,5 cm © Herakleidon Museum, Athens Greece

THE PARISIAN NIGHTS OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

Paris in the late 19th century; bohemian life, artists of Montmartre, the Moulin Rouge, theatres, prostitutes.
This is the environment in which Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) lived and which he decided to portray, becoming, this way, the most famous exponent of that period.
From April 1st 2017 a great exhibition in Verona celebrates the artistic journey of Toulouse-Lautrec, displaying 170 works coming from the Herakleidon Museum in Athens.
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Why should you go to Verona to visit this exhibition?
It’s easy, to discover the Parisian nights of an artist who lived hard.

5 feet tall, died a few weeks shy of his 37th birthday of syphilis and alcoholism, Toulouse-Lautrec became famous thanks to his advertising posters and portraits of famous people of that time.

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Hieronymus Bosch in Venice

Trittico di Santa liberata | Hieronymus Bosch

Jheronimus Bosch, Trittico di Santa liberata o Wilgerfortis, 1495-1505 circa. Credit © Archivio fotografico Gallerie dell’Accademia (dettaglio), “su concessione del Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo. Museo Nazionale Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia”

HIERONYMUS BOSCH IN VENICE 

There’s an exhibition I haven’t talked about yet, but I put it in the list of the unmissable events in Italy.
It’s an exhibition made up of visions, like those of the works on display.

I’m referring to works by Hieronymus Bosch, the most mysterious and peculiar artist of the Renaissance, protagonist of “Hieronymus Bosch and Venice”, an exhibition displayed in the Doge’s Apartment of the Doge’s Palace of Venice.
An interesting exhibition which gives me the chance to tell you why three masterpieces by Hieronymus Bosch are housed in Venice.

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William Merritt Chase. A painter between New York and Venice

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE | The Open Air Breakfast

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE
The Open Air Breakfast (1888c.),
© Toledo Museum of Art

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE. A PAINTER BETWEEN NEW YORK AND VENICE

The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia presents – an absolute European preview– a great retrospective dedicated to the American artist William Merritt Chase.

A renowned figure in the international art circles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) has been an innovative painter who has known to portrait, through a technique inspired by the observation of the masters of European art antic and contemporary, the life of the north American bourgeoisie.

Born in 1849 in Williamsburg, Indiana, William Merritt Chase after a rst studies in New York city, moves in 1872 in Europe to join the Royal Academy in Munich.

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