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Raphael strives to capture the open and sympathetic face of his friend and deliberately simplifies his composition. Yet the image is filled with...
Rafaello Sanzio dit Raphaël « Portrait de l’ami en homme de cour, Portrait de Baldassare Castiglione »
Using a funerary portrait from the Fayum preserved at the Louvre Museum, this documentary explores the art of portrait painting in Roman Egypt during...
Le Dernier Regard – L’Européenne, portrait du Fayoum
The description of the Greek world that Homer gave in the 8th century B.C. was long considered as a purely mythological account. However, in the 19th...
Dans le sillage d'Ulysse
It was a French prelate who commissioned the decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of Saint Louis of the French in Rome, dedicated to his...
Le Caravage « Anges et bourreaux »
A plunge into the strange and fascinating world of Francis Bacon, whose painting struggles to exorcise violence and death. The anguished and very...
Bacon « Les figures de l’excès »
Is the painting by Giorgiorne or by Titien ? It is difficult to distinguish the work of Giorgione (who died in 1510 at the age of 33) from the early...
Tiziano Vecellio dit Titien « Un souvenir d’Arcadie, Le Concert Champêtre »
A study of Veronese’s painting The Feast in the House of Levi (1573), originally conceived as a representation of the Last Supper. By...
Véronèse « Un tableau en procès »
Around 1515, Master Mathis added painted panels arranged as double wings to a sculpted altarpiece created twenty years earlier for the...
Grünewald « Le retable des Ardents »
Born in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne returns to settle there after some journeys elsewhere. He takes as his motif the Sainte-Victoire mountain...
Cézanne « La violence du motif »
A still life featuring a large fish, painted in the Dutch manner, The Ray immerses us in the quiet life of familiar objects that the artist took...
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin « La saveur de l’immobile, La Raie »
At the time Wassily Kandinsky painted Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), he was a professor at the Bauhaus. In this work, the painter applies the principles of...
Kandinsky « Figures de l’invisible »
The primary characteristic of Vermeer’s work is the assimilation of his perspective to a photographic vision. Everything suggests that he made...
Johannes Vermeer« Le grain de la lumière »
This is certainly the most mysterious painting of all the history of painting. Thirty different attempts of finding out the hidden meaning of it have...
Piero Della Francesca « Le rêve de la diagonale, La Flagellation »
Shitao, one of the most skilled painters of his time, was deeply imbued with Buddhist spirituality, as he was forced to take refuge in monasteries...
Shitao « L’Unique trait de pinceau »
Euphronios is one of the rare Greek vase painters whose name has come down to us. An exceptional artist, he stopped painting at the height of his...
Euphronios « Euphronios a peint »
Who were they burying that day in Ornans ? A gathering of ordinary people, a priest, altor boys, all inhabitants of Courbet's native village. The...
Courbet « La place du mort »
During his final years in Rome, Nicolas Poussin painted four works for the Duke of Richelieu evoking the seasons. Considered the painter’s...
Nicolas Poussin « Admirable tremblement du temps »
These three very big panels scattered in three different museums (London, Paris and Florence) are considered to be a sort of manifesto of the new art...
Paolo Uccello « Vacarmes en Toscane, La Bataille de San Romano »
By painting his monumental work The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819, Théodore Géricault elevated a news event to the level of...
Théodore Géricault « La beauté du désastre »
At the end of his career, Ingres brought together 25 nude women in a painting he prepared with great care. The study of the painter’s extensive...
Ingres « Le regard captif »
