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
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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