ЦИРК

24 марта - июнь 2016
http://www.rusmuseum.ru

Яркий, праздничный мир цирка нашел свое отражение в творчестве многих отечественных мастеров. На выставке впервые будет представлена столь масштабная картина воплощения темы цирка в русском изобразительном искусстве XIX-XXI столетий. Среди авторов представленных работ, освещающих различные грани этой темы: А.Бенуа, С.Судейкин, А.Шевченко, С.Дымшиц-Толстая, И.Пуни, А.Яковлев, В.Шухаев, М.Шемякин, А.Агабеков, Н.Нестерова, К.Симун, И.Тарасюк и другие художники. В экспозицию войдут произведения живописи, скульптуры, графики и декоративно-прикладного искусства из собрания Русского музея и мастерских художников, а также уникальные материалы, связанные с историей цирка, из коллекции Музея циркового искусства в Санкт-Петербурге.

The Douanier Rousseau. Archaic Candour.

22 March - 17 July 2016
http://www.musee-orsay.fr

An extremely unusual painter, Henri Rousseau is a unique figure in the history of European art. His work is, however, in keeping with his time, the dawn of the 20th century : the exhibition compares his painting with several of his sources of inspiration, which included both academic painting and new painting, and with the avant-garde artists who enthroned him as the father of modernity, The Douanier Rousseau. Archaic Candour is a critical investigation of his art based on a consideration of the notion of archaism.

Da Kandinsky a Pollock. La grande arte dei Guggenheim

Dal 19 marzo al 24 luglio 2016
http://www.palazzostrozzi.org

Dal 19 marzo al 24 luglio 2016 Palazzo Strozzi ospiterà una grande mostra che porta a Firenze oltre 100 capolavori dell’arte europea e americana tra gli anni venti e gli anni sessanta del Novecento, in un percorso che ricostruisce rapporti e relazioni tra le due sponde dell’Oceano, nel segno delle figure dei collezionisti americani Peggy e Solomon Guggenheim. Curata da Luca Massimo Barbero, la mostra nasce dalla collaborazione tra la Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi e la Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim di New York e permette un eccezionale confronto tra opere fondamentali di maestri europei dell’arte moderna come Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray e dei cosiddetti informali europei come Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, insieme a grandi dipinti e sculture di alcune delle maggiori personalità dell’arte americana degli anni cinquanta e sessanta come Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly.

Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky

17 March - 26 June 2016
http://www.npg.org.uk

Russia and the Arts is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a selection of masterpieces on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The exhibition will focus on the great writers, artists, composers and patrons, including Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky, whose achievements helped develop an extraordinary and rich cultural scene in Russia between 1867 and 1914. It will also show how Russian art of the period was developing a new self-confidence, with the penetrating Realism of the 1870s and 1880s later complemented by the brighter hues of Russian Impressionism and the bold, faceted forms of Symbolist painting.

In the Age of Giorgione

12 March — 5 June 2016
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk

Trace the development of ideas that changed the course of art in this highly original exploration of the Venetian Renaissance. Bringing together iconic paintings by masters such as Titian and Giorgione, we shed new light on a pivotal yet little-understood moment in the history of art.

This fascinating exhibition seeks to unravel the complex web of influences that shaped the work of many of the most celebrated names in Renaissance art. Masterpieces by Giorgione will be displayed side by side with works by Giovanni Bellini, Albrecht Dürer, Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo and Lorenzo Lotto, among others. Visitors will also have the opportunity to rediscover Giovanni Cariani, a great but now unfamiliar artist in their midst.

CUBISM – CONSTRUCTIVISM – FORM ART

10. März 2016 to 19. Juni 2016
http://www.belvedere.at/

The exhibition Cubism – Constructivism – Form Art explores the creative hotbed that from 1900 onwards gave rise to an entire network of interrelated art. The show is the first to illustrate the preconditions of related artistic styles within the Austro-Hungarian empire that would ultimately culminate in abstraction. Broadly considered, there are no obvious connections between Viennese FORM ART and Cubism in Prague, as both developed their distinctive characteristics at a slightly different time.

Botticelli Reimagined

5 March 2016 - 3 July 2016
http://www.vam.ac.uk

Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is recognised as one of the greatest artists of all time. His celebrated images are firmly embedded in public consciousness and his influence permeates art, design, fashion and film. However, although lauded in his lifetime, Botticelli was largely forgotten for more than 300 years until his work was progressively rediscovered in the 19th century.  Telling a story 500 years in the making, Botticelli Reimagined will be the largest Botticelli exhibition in Britain since 1930. Including painting, fashion, film, drawing, photography, tapestry, sculpture and print, the exhibition will explore the ways that artists and designers have reinterpreted Botticelli. It will include over 50 original works by Botticelli, alongside works by artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, René Magritte, Elsa Schiaparelli, Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman

Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture

March 2, 2016 to June 5, 2016
http://www.frick.org

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), one of the most celebrated and influential portraitists of all time, enjoyed an international career that took him from his native Flanders to Italy, France, and, ultimately, the court of Charles I in London. Van Dyck’s supremely elegant manner and convincing evocation of a sitter’s inner life — whether real or imagined — made him the favorite portraitist of many of the most powerful and interesting figures of the seventeenth century. This is the most comprehensive exhibition ever organized on Van Dyck’s activity and process as a portraitist and the first major exhibition on the artist to be held in the United States in over twenty years. Through approximately one hundred works, the exhibition explores the astounding versatility and inventiveness of a portrait specialist, the stylistic development of a draftsman and painter, and the efficiency and genius of an artist in action. Lenders include the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the British Museum and National Gallery in London, the Prado Museum in Madrid, and major private collectors such as the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Buccleuch.

Caravaggio and his Followers

from 01 March 2016 to 12 June 2016
www.nmwa.go.jp/

The new evocative representations of reality, a dramatic use of light, the absolute originality of his iconographic inventions and an unprecedented, very particular technique characterize all of Caravaggio’s works, and constitute the essence of his modernity and charm. The Caravaggio “phenomenon” has, in recent decades, seduced the world , with numerous exhibitions celebrated on four continents, and has even gained the colors of a “myth”.

His work has been often associated with that of his followers who in the early decades of the 17th century spread the manner of Caravaggio throughout Europe leading to the extraordinary results achieved by La Tour, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the studio

From 01 March to 19 June 2016
http://www.museothyssen.org

In conjunction with the Denver Art Museum, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first retrospective in Europe on Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, leading figures of 20th-century American realism. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the work of these two father and son artists, their lives and creative abilities through more than 60 works loaned from public institutions and private collections, some of them never previously exhibited in public.

Amedeo Modigliani, l’œil intérieur

27 Février 2016 - 05 Juin 2016

www.musee-lam.fr

L’exposition propose une traversée de l’œuvre d’Amedeo Modigliani en explorant trois aspects d’une carrière tout à la fois brève et féconde. En premier lieu, l’exposition mettra en lumière le dialogue que le jeune artiste italien, de formation classique, a entretenu avec la sculpture antique et extra-occidentale. Autre dimension centrale de son œuvre, sa pratique du portrait occupera une place prépondérante dans le parcours. Seront mis en exergue les portraits qu’il fit de ses amis, pour la plupart acteurs eux aussi de l’avant-garde parisienne. Enfin, l’exposition sera l’occasion de mieux comprendre la relation singulière qui lie l’œuvre de Modigliani au collectionneur Roger Dutilleul : entre 1918 et 1946, ce dernier fit l’acquisition d’une trentaine de tableaux et de très nombreux dessins de l’artiste, toutes périodes confondues, ce qui fait de lui, avec Jonas Netter, l’un des plus importants collectionneurs de l’œuvre du peintre.

CHAGALL TO MALEVICH

26.02.2016 - 26.06.2016
http://www.albertina.at/

The Russian avant-garde numbers among the most diverse and radical chapters of modernism. Works by artists such as Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, and Marc Chagall continue to be cherished worldwide, with exhibitions always drawing large audiences. In many cases, however, Western art historiography still conveys a rather simplified impression of the Russian avant-garde as a homogeneous phenomenon. This era’s actual diversity can be seen from 26 February 2016 at the Albertina, with 130 masterpieces demonstrating fundamentally different styles, compositional principles, and aesthetic ideas that appear not only in simultaneously created works by different artists, but occasionally even within one and the same artist’s oeuvre.

PALMYRA: WHAT’S LEFT? LOUIS-FRANÇOIS CASSAS AND HIS TRAVELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

26 Feb – 8 May 2016
http://www.wallraf.museum/

The remains of Palmyra have fascinated people for centuries. Tourists and scholars alike have visited Syria to admire a city whose culture bore the stamp of the Romans, Greeks and Persians – until the summer of 2015, that is, when the terrorist organisation Islamic State attacked it and destroyed the most important temples. At the time of writing, no end to the destruction is in sight. This appalling situation has prompted the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum to think about what survives. The exhibition Palmyra: What’s Left? presents more than thirty drawings by the French artist, archaeologist and architect Louis-François Cassas (1756–1827). In 1785, over a period of just two months, Cassas made detailed on-site drawings of virtually all the city’s remains. He captured the beauty and fascination of the ancient sites with a breathtaking immediacy that has lost none of its power to impress. The exhibition also offers an insight into the period in European history when archaeologists and scholars first discovered the desert city.

Travelling in the Middle East from 1784 to 1787, Cassas was one of the first architects and archaeologists to visit Palmyra and Baalbek. Seeking answers to key questions in architectural history, he focused on the aesthetic qualities of materials, the construction technology used in the buildings and the origins of certain forms and styles – issues that still occupy experts today. 

MANIERA. Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence

2/24–6/5/2016
http://www.staedelmuseum.de/

Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino, Giorgio Vasari – in 2016, the Städel Museum will stage a major exhibition of superb works presenting the distinguished painters of Florentine Mannerism for the first time in Germany. With the aid of prominent loans, the show will acquaint the public with a key chapter in the history of Italian art in all its diversity. Spanning the period from the return of the Medici to Florence in 1512 and the initial artistic endeavours of the new generation around Pontormo and Rosso to the 1568 publication of Vasari’s Lives – artist biographies that still bear an influence today –, “Maniera” will be devoted to Florence as the first centre of European Mannerism.

More than 120 precious loans, including paintings as well as drawings and sculptures, will provide an unprecedented overview of a stylistically formative epoch for which the art historiographer Giorgio Vasari coined the colourful term “maniera”. Elegant, cultivated and artificial, but also capricious, extravagant and sometimes even bizarre: the art of Mannerism exhibits many facets. In 1967, the art historian John Shearman summed it up in a catchy formula – “the stylish style”. Its sophisticated grace and creative tenacity make the “maniera” one of the most fascinating phenomena in the art of Italy.

ЛЕВ БАКСТ. 1866-1924

24 февраля - май 2016
http://www.rusmuseum.ru
Корпус Бенуа

Лев (Леон) Бакст (1866-1924) - всемирно известный живописец и график, сделавший неоценимый вклад в русское театрально-декорационное искусство эпохи его расцвета. Именно костюмы и декорации, исполненные по эскизам Льва Самойловича Бакста, обусловили беспримерный успех легендарных «дягилевских сезонов» - балетных и оперных постановок в России, Франции и других странах. Творчество Бакста оказало колоссальное влияние на развитие искусства театра во всем мире. Оно стало уникальным примером сочетания смелого новаторства и пристального интереса к художественной традиции, восходящей к искусству Древнего Востока и античного мира. На выставке, приуроченной к 150-летнему юбилею выдающегося мастера, будет показано около 100 работ из собрания Русского музея, а также произведения из других музейных собраний.

In the Library: The Intersection of Commerce and Instruction in Art

February 22 – June 3, 2016
http://www.nga.gov

The art we experience often depends as much upon the materials available to the artists who make it as it depends on the artists themselves. This exhibition looks at a variety of literature surrounding artists’ materials and instruction, and charts the ways in which the increasing commercialization of their production may have affected the practice of artists, especially following the industrial revolution. From trade catalogs to instruction manuals, these books give us clues about the materials and techniques artists were using at a given time. This allows today’s scholars and conservators alike to better understand the physical attributes of the artworks they study and preserve. In ages past, merchants would supply raw materials; artists, to a large degree, controlled the fabrication of usable tools from those materials on a relatively small scale, grinding their own pigments to make paint and fashioning pencils and brushes based on techniques handed down from master to apprentice in an artist’s workshop

Sculpted in Steel: Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1929–1940

Feb 21, 2016 - May 30, 2016
http://www.mfah.org/

Today's automotive manufacturers strive for economy and efficiency, but there was a time when art and elegance reigned. Sculpted in Steel: Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1929–1940 celebrates the cars and motorcycles designed during this iconic period.

Sculpted in Steel showcases 14 cars and three motorcycles, alongside historical images and videos. The classic grace and modern luxury of Art Deco design dazzles in vehicles from the United States and around the world. The innovative, machine-inspired Art Deco style began in France in the early 20th century, but the movement was interrupted by World War I. The style reemerged across Europe after the war, and the 1920s to 1930s proved to be one of the most creative eras for international design in all mediums. Art Deco influenced everything from fashion and fine art to architecture and transportation.

Munch and Expressionism

February 18-June 13, 2016
http://www.neuegalerie.org

An exhibition examines Edvard Munch’s influence on his German and Austrian contemporaries, as well as their influence upon him. The show will offer a compelling new look at works by the Norwegian artist, whose painting The Scream has become a symbol of modern angst.  The exhibition will be comprised of approximately 35 paintings and 50 works on paper from both public and private collections worldwide. The German artists included in the exhibition are Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gabriele Münter, and Emil Nolde, and the Austrians included are Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele.

Vigée Le Brun. Woman Artist in Revolutionary France

February 15–May 15, 2016
http://www.metmuseum.org/

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842) is one of the finest eighteenth-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. An autodidact with exceptional skills as a portraitist, she achieved success in France and Europe during one of the most eventful, turbulent periods in European history.

In 1776, she married the leading art dealer in Paris; his profession at first kept her from being accepted into the prestigious Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Nevertheless, through the intervention of Marie Antoinette, she was admitted at the age of 28 in 1783, becoming one of only four women members. Obliged to flee France in 1789 because of her association with the queen, she traveled to Italy, where in 1790 she was elected to membership in the Accademia di San Luca, Rome. Independently, she worked in Florence, Naples, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Berlin before returning to France, taking sittings from, among others, members of the royal families of Naples, Russia, and Prussia. While in exile, she exhibited at the Paris Salons.

She was remarkable not only for her technical gifts but for her understanding of and sympathy with her sitters. This will be the first retrospective and only the second exhibition devoted to Vigée Le Brun in modern times. The eighty works on view will be paintings and a few pastels from European and American public and private collections.

Van Gogh's Bedrooms

February 14, 2016–May 10, 2016
http://www.artic.edu/

Vincent van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles is arguably the most famous chambre in the history of art. It also held special significance for the artist, who created three distinct paintings of this intimate space from 1888 to 1889. This exhibition—presented only at the Art Institute of Chicago—brings together all three versions of The Bedroom for the first time in North America, offering a pioneering and in-depth study of their making and meaning to Van Gogh in his relentless quest for home.

Van Gogh painted his first Bedroom just after moving into his beloved “Yellow House” in Arles, France, in 1888. He was so enamored with the work, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, that after water damage threatened its stability, he became determined to preserve the composition by painting a second version while at an asylum in Saint-Rémy in 1889. Identical in scale and yet distinct from the original, that second work is now one of the icons of the Art Institute’s permanent collection. Van Gogh created a smaller third version, now at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, as a gift for his mother and sister a few weeks after making the second. While the three paintings at first appear almost identical, when examined closely, each reveals distinct and unique details.

Jheronimus Bosch

13 februari t/m 8 mei 2016
http://www.hetnoordbrabantsmuseum.nl/

The Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch (Holland) will stage an exhibition dedicated to Hieronymus Bosch from 13 February to 8 May 2016. This major overview exhibition of the works of Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450 Den Bosch 1516) is based on extensive global research conducted into his relatively small oeuvre. Never before have so many works of the master been brought together in Den Bosch where they were made. Many paintings were restored following the study of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project, receiving funding from amongst others The Getty Foundation (Panel Paintings Initiative). The 9 paintings (12 panels) will be on view to the public for the first time at this exhibition. The majority of the paintings will be returned to their original glory in 2016.

Seeing Nature. Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection

February 6 - May 8, 2016
http://www.phillipscollection.org/

Featuring 39 masterpieces spanning five centuries, this exhibition draws from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection to explore the evolution of European and American landscape art. Highlights include Jan Brueghel the Younger’s 17th‐century allegorical paintings of the five senses that invite visitors to consider their own experiences of the world. Venice, one of Allen’s favorite cities, is sumptuously represented in the exhibition through stunning Venetian scenes by Canaletto, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and J. M. W. Turner, among others. Other highlights include five Monet landscapes spanning 30 years, from views of the French countryside to his late immersive representations of water lilies, evocative works by Paul Cézanne and Gustav Klimt, and modern and contemporary perspectives by 20th‐century artists as diverse as Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha.

Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia

February 6, 2016 – May 15, 2016
famsf.org/

Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia is the first major international presentation of Pierre Bonnard’s work to be mounted on the West Coast in half a century. The exhibition will feature approximately 75 works that span the artist’s complete career, from his early Nabi masterpieces, through his experimental photography, to the late interior scenes for which he is best known.

The exhibition celebrates Bonnard (French, 1867–1947) as one of the defining figures of modernism in the transitional period between Impressionism and abstraction. Several themes from Bonnard’s career will emerge, including the artist’s great decorative commissions where the natural world merges with the bright colors and light of the South of France, where windows link interior and exterior spaces, and where intimate scenes disclose unexpected phantasmagorical effects.

Dadaglobe Reconstructed

5 February – 1 May 2016
http://www.kunsthaus.ch/

‘Dadaglobe’ brings together the more than two hundred artworks and texts that were sent to Tristan Tzara in 1921 by artists from all over Europe. This epochal but hitherto unpublished book project is finally being realized to mark the 100th anniversary of Dada’s foundation. After years of research, contributions that have since been dispersed around the globe have been assembled once again for an exhibition that is a milestone in recent Dada research. The presentation comprises self-portraits, photomontages and collages, drawings, book page designs, poems and essays as well as manuscripts, printed matter and revealing historical documents. ‘Dadaglobe’ is an impressive survey of the artistic diversity, socio-political relevance and art-historical impact of Dada. With contributions by Hans Arp, André Breton, Max Ernst, Hannah Höch, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and some 30 other artists.

Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting

February 5–May 1, 2016
http://fristcenter.org/

Drawn from one of the oldest and most significant private collections in Europe, Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting features works by Goya, Murillo, Rubens, Titian, and more from the splendid palaces of the Alba dynasty in Spain. Co-organized by the Meadows Museum and the Casa de Alba Foundation, the exhibition brings together more than 130 works of art dating from antiquity to the twentieth century. This is the first major exhibition outside Spain of works from the collection of the House of Alba—a prominent Spanish noble family with ties to the monarchy since the fifteenth century.

Highlights include masterpieces of Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, and Spanish painting, such as Francisco Goya’s The Duchess of Alba in White and Leonardo Bassano’s recently conserved Forge of Vulcan. Handwritten documents and maps by Christopher Columbus will be on display, including his list of the people who accompanied him on his 1492 Journey of Discovery and a drawing of the coastline of La Española (Hispaniola), the first island he discovered in the New World (now occupied by the Dominican Republic and Haiti). Prints and drawings, sculptures, letters, illuminated manuscripts, decorative objects, and tapestries provide further insight into the role of the Alba family in world history.

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

30 January — 20 April 2016
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk

Using the work of Monet as a starting point, this landmark exhibition examines the role gardens played in the evolution of art from the early 1860s through to the 1920s.

Trace the emergence of the modern garden in its many forms and glories as we take you through a period of great social change and innovation in the arts. Discover the paintings of some of the most important Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Avant-Garde artists of the early twentieth century as they explore this theme.

Mavericks. Breaking the Mould of British Architecture

26 January — 20 April 2016
www.royalacademy.org.uk

Charting the course of British architecture through twelve maverick architects: Smythson, Vanbrugh, Wyatt, Soane, Cockerell, Mackintosh, Holden, Goodhart-Rendel, Stirling, Price, FAT and Hadid.

What makes an architect a maverick? The first and most obvious answer is when they refuse to conform to the norms of mainstream architectural culture, whether by designing in a particularly idiosyncratic way or through working on the leading edge of architectural design, driving it forward. But architects can also be maverick in other ways, such as in their relationship to the discipline and profession of architecture. These are mavericks questioning what architecture is and how it should be practised.

Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts

January 26–June 26, 2016
http://www.getty.edu

Embark on a kaleidoscopic journey through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to consider how illuminated manuscripts and other portable objects—like ceramics, textiles, glassworks, gems, and sculptures—contributed to one's outlook on the world in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the early Americas. Drawn primarily from the Getty’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, with complementary loans from collections across Los Angeles, the exhibition presents stunning and at times surprising images and a range of ideas about exploration, exotic pursuits, and cross-cultural exchanges in the then-known world.

Lo splendore di Venezia. Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi e i vedutisti dell’Ottocento

Dal 23 Gennaio 2016 al 12 Giugno 2016
amicimartinengo.it/

Comunicato Stampa: Dopo il grande successo di pubblico e di critica della mostra IL CIBO NELL’ARTE, dal 23 gennaio al 12 giugno 2016 Palazzo Martinengo di Brescia ospiterà un nuovo appuntamento espositivo, promosso dall’Associazione Amici di Palazzo Martinengo, con il patrocinio della Provincia di Brescia, che celebrerà la città italiana che più di ogni altra è stata, ed è ancora oggi, un mito intramontabile nell’immaginario collettivo.

La rassegna, curata da Davide Dotti, presenterà oltre cento capolavori, provenienti da collezioni pubbliche e private italiane ed estere, di Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi e dei più importanti vedutisti del XVIII e XIX secolo, per dimostrare come questo filone iconografico, passato alla storia col nome di Vedutismo, non si sia esaurito con la fine della Repubblica di Venezia, ma proseguì anche durante l’intero corso dell’Ottocento.

Art of Prehistoric Times

Rock Paintings from the Frobenius Collection

21 January to 16 May 2016
www.berlinerfestspiele.de

In addition to the art of the “primitives” (the term used for indigenous peoples at the time) and the “naives” (children and the mentally ill), the quest for original, unspoilt forms of expression in the 1920s and ‘30s gave rise to a third, often neglected source of inspiration for the development of modern art: prehistoric art, particularly the oldest human art tradition, rock art. Around 100 samples, including many large, wall-sized copies from the Frobenius Institute, as well as photographic and archive material, depict the epic history of rock-art documentation in European caves, the central Sahara, the savannahs of Zimbabwe, and the Australian outback.

From Floris to Rubens

20-01-2016 - 15-05-2016
http://www.brusselsmuseums.be

This exhibition features 90 drawings from artists from the southern and northern Netherlands created during the 16th and beginning of the 17th century: one of the most fascinating periods in the history of draughtsmanship. In addition to beautiful sketches for prints, paintings, stained glass and tapestries by great masters such as Frans Floris and Peter Paul Rubens, other artworks like the sublime character studies of Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis De Vos or the so accurately detailed landscapes of Pieter Stevens and Adriaen Frans Boudewijns are put in the spotlights. The drawing technique allows ? in a unique way ? to capture all the precision, dexterity and control of great artists.Furthermore, the majority of the selected drawings have never been shown to the public before.

Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee

18 January 2016 to 29 July 2016

www.rcplondon.ac.uk

A major exhibition revealing the fascinating life, times and lost library of Queen Elizabeth I’s most famous ‘conjurer’.

John Dee (1527–1609) is one of the most intriguing characters of 16th century England. A member of the Elizabethan court, he is infamous for his attempts to make contact with other-worldly spirits and his study and practice of alchemy. He was also a mathematician and scholar of navigation, a founding fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a university lecturer on rhetoric, and an astrologer.

Dee’s library was one of the most famous collections of books and manuscripts of its time, as renowned for its contents as for the fact it was pillaged and dispersed while Dee was travelling in Europe during the 1580s.

Выставка одного шедевра

11.03.2016 - 02.10.2016
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org
Залы античного мира

В рамках Года Греция–Россия

Sublime Beauty: Raphael's "Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn"

January 9, 2016 – April 10, 2016
famsf.org

This focused exhibition features one of Raphael’s most beguiling and enigmatic paintings. The masterpiece, presented in the United States for the first time, will be lent by the Galleria Borghese in Rome, where it was first recorded in the collection in 1682.

Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn (ca. 1505–1506) features an unidentified blond-haired sitter and epitomizes the beauty of Raphael’s female portraits during his Florentine period. The exhibition will explore the possible identity of this subject, as well as the painting’s distinct iconography, including the unicorn she holds in her lap. Scholars believe that the painting was commissioned to celebrate a wedding, and the unicorn, a conventional symbol of chastity, may offer clues to her familial lineage.

The exhibition further highlights the stylistic relationships between this masterpiece and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Leonardo’s canonical work, painted in Florence in the early years of the 16th century, had a great impact on the younger Raphael, who also practiced in the city during this period. Raphael’s sophisticated adaptation of Leonardo’s innovations in portrait compositions resulted in Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn, a painting that hints at the Mona Lisa with its half-length format, its sitter with hands folded in her lap, and its setting before a distant landscape. Visitors will be able to explore Raphael’s painting in detail and get a glimpse into its intriguing history.

Эрнст Неизвестный. Возвращение в Манеж

5 января — 9 февраля 2016
http://moscowmanege.ru

Центральный Манеж, Манежная площадь, 15 января в Центральном Манеже коллекционер Феликс Комаров представит выставку «Эрнст Неизвестный. Возвращение в Манеж», посвященную 90-летию выдающегося скульптора. В экспозицию вошли более ста работ Э. Неизвестного из собрания коллекционера.

На выставке экспонируется более 20 скульптур 1960х-2000х годов, в том числе монументальные работы редкие для частных коллекций. Среди скульптурных произведений представлены: два вида отчасти автобиографической работы «Орфей»; один из множественных вариантов любимого образа и архетипа художника — большой «Кентавр»; скульптура «Новая статуя Свободы», которую скульптор планировал установить на острове Тайвань; одно из самых загадочных творений мастера — «Бертран Де Борн»; скульптурные портреты и многое другое. В экспозиции более 50 живописных холстов и 60 графических работ

Pax Mongolica 1210–1350

5 Jan 2016 to 1 May 2016
http://www.ashmolean.org

Genghis Khan established the Mongol Empire in 1206. It rapidly expanded during the following decades, continuously invading new territories.  By the end of the 13th century, the vast Empire covered a large part of Eurasia, stretching from the Korean peninsula to Central Europe. These coins reflect the great diversity of peoples living under Mongolian rule and their different cultures