Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum

28.03 – 29.09.2013
www.britishmuseum.org/

AD 79. In just 24 hours, two cities in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy were buried by a catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Preserved under ash, the cities lay buried for just over 1,600 years, their rediscovery providing an unparalleled glimpse into the daily life of the Roman Empire. From the bustling street to the intimate spaces of a Roman home, this major exhibition will take you to the heart of people’s lives in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Una grande mostra che, attraverso 250 oggetti provenienti da Pompei ed Ercolano, descriverà la vita quotidiana che lì si svolgeva fino alla data del 24 agosto 79 d.C., giorno in cui le due città vennero sepolte da una catastrofica eruzione.

Conservati sotto le ceneri, la loro riscoperta 1700 anni più tardi, fornirà uno sguardo senza precedenti alla quotidianità dell'Impero Romano. Dalle strade affollate agli spazi intimi di una casa romana, questa imponente esposizione al British Museum, porterà il visitatore nel cuore della vita della gente di Pompei ed Ercolano.
Il progetto espositivo, curato da Paul Roberts, responsabile della sezione romana, è frutto di una partnership con la Soprintendenza speciale per i beni archeologici di Napoli e Pompei ed è sponsorizzato dalla Goldman Sachs.

De l’Allemagne. German Thought and Painting, from Friedrich to Beckmann, 1800-1939

28.03 – 24.06.2013

http://www.louvre.fr

This exhibition, comprising over two hundred works, offers a reflection on the main themes that structured German thinking from 1800 to 1939. It places artworks and their artists—including Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Klee, Philipp Otto Runge and Otto Dix—in the intellectual context of their time, and confronts them with the writings of great thinkers, chief among whom is Goethe.

German history from the late 18th century to the eve of World War II is marked by the difficulty of establishing political unity at a time when the concept of a Europe of nations was gaining hold. A multi-faith country characterized by geographical discontinuity, the instability of its borders and different or even antagonistic political and cultural contexts, Germany needed to establish the underlying unity of all Germans, from Bavaria to the Baltic, from the Rhineland to Prussia.

The concept of Kultur, inherited from Enlightenment thought, seemed most likely to constitute the breeding ground from which a modern German tradition could emerge. The Napoleonic occupation fostered awareness of this unity and provided the political background for the beginnings of Romanticism, at the start of our timeline—while at its end, the rise of Nazism highlighted the tragic dimension of this concept, without managing to destroy it. The exhibition analyzes the role of the fine arts, from Romanticism to New Objectivity, in this period of great artistic innovation that sought to invent a new German tradition.

David Bowie is

23.03 – 28.07.2013.

http://www.vam.ac.uk

The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie - one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. David Bowie is will explore the creative processes of Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention across five decades.

The V&A’s Theatre and Performance curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh have selected more than 300 objects that will be brought together for the very first time. They include handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs, Bowie’s own instruments and album artwork.

The exhibition will explore the broad range of Bowie’s collaborations with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre, art and film. On display will be more than 300 objects including Ziggy Stardust bodysuits (1972) designed by Freddie Burretti, photography by Brian Duffy; album sleeve artwork by Guy Peellaert and Edward Bell; visual excerpts from films and live performances including The Man Who Fell to Earth, music videos such as Boys Keep Swinging and set designs created for the Diamond Dogs tour (1974). Alongside these will be more personal items such as never-before-seen storyboards, handwritten set lists and lyrics as well as some of Bowie’s own sketches, musical scores and diary entries, revealing the evolution of his creative ideas.

Delvaux e il Surrealismo Un enigma tra De Chirico, Magritte, Ernst, Man Ray

23.03-30.06.2013
http://www.magnanirocca.it

Tele dominate da baluginanti nudita, da scheletri implicati in scene religiose. Le mostre di Paul Delvaux hanno destato scandalo, come la retrospettiva di Ostenda del 1962, che consacrera definitivamente l'artista sul piano internazionale, vietata ai minori di diciotto anni.

Oppure la Biennale di Venezia del 1954, nella quale il patriarca, futuro papa Giovanni XXIII, proibi ai preti l'eccesso di una pittura che avrebbe potuto turbarli.

Affabulatore dell'inconscio, intrigante stratega di atmosfere da sogno, Delvaux trova fonte d'ispirazione in quelli che lui considera i suoi due mentori, Giorgio De Chirico, il metafisico "faro" per i surrealisti, e Rene Magritte, insieme a Delvaux il piu grande pittore belga del XX secolo: "Cercavo negli altri l'alimento che mi permettesse di scoprire me stesso. Percio ho fatto pittura espressionista. Ho fatto pittura come quella di Ensor. C'era qualcos'altro che volevo trovare: fu allora che scoprii Giorgio de Chirico, e fu lui, d'un tratto, a mettermi sulla strada giusta". Si presenta con queste parole Delvaux, protagonista della stagione del Surrealismo, il movimento d'avanguardia nato nel 1924 col Manifesto di Andre Breton, che eleva il sonno a stato di coscienza e realta, con Sigmund Freud inconsapevole profeta: "Automatismo psichico puro con il quale ci si propone di esprimere il funzionamento reale del pensiero, in assenza di qualsiasi controllo esercitato dalla ragione, al di fuori di ogni preoccupazione estetica o morale."

Questa dimensione artistica viene indagata dalla nuova mostra della Fondazione Magnani Rocca dal titolo "DELVAUX E IL SURREALISMO" dal 23 marzo al 30 giugno 2013, a cura di Stefano Roffi insieme al Musee d'Ixelles-Bruxelles, dove l'enigma, perfettamente surreale, sull'adesione o meno dell'artista al dettato del movimento surrealista (egli la negava, contraddicendo una apparente evidenza, definendosi un "realista poetico") costituisce il tema della mostra stessa che, con circa 80 opere scandite tematicamente (Il paesaggio, L'enigma della ferrovia, Il mistero femminino, Le coppie, La classicita, Gli scheletri) offre anche il confronto con i lavori di accertati surrealisti quali lo stesso Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, oltre al grande De Chirico; con loro Delvaux partecipa a "L'Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme" nel 1938 a Parigi, in un incontro artistico fra i piu sorprendenti del Novecento, dopo essere rimasto molto colpito dalle opere che aveva visto alla mostra "Minotaure", tenutasi al Palais des Beaux-Arts di Bruxelles nel 1934.
Nella "Villa dei Capolavori", sede a Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) della Fondazione Magnani Rocca, presieduta da Giancarlo Forestieri, accanto alle celebri opere di Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya, Canova, Monet, Renoir, Morandi e molti altri, i lavori di Delvaux trovano dialoghi di raffinata suggestione.
La mostra, che si avvale del sostegno di Fondazione Cariparma e Cariparma Credit Agricole, e corredata da un ricco catalogo, contenente saggi di Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Stefano Roffi, Laura Neve, Mauro Carrera, Elisa Barili, Pierre Ghene.

Clouds

22 .03.2013 - 01.07.2013
http://www.leopoldmuseum.org

From 1800 landscape painting experienced an impressive heyday. Within this genre, artists paid increasing attention to the motif of clouds. These strange, elusive formations consisting of water, air and light appear as conveyors of different emotions and messages. Bushy clouds in a sunny sky contribute significantly to the positive atmosphere of a landscape and seem to be an almost indispensible feature in idyllic depictions of nature. A sky traversed by dark rain and thunder clouds, on the other hand, is perceived as threatening, while a band of clouds bathed in the glow of the red evening light sets a melancholy mood. Bizarre cloud formations, in turn, can be interpreted as enigmatic signs, as mysterious messages and warnings of imminent danger. A sense of foreboding is also conveyed by masses of clouds that appear out of control, occasioned either by natural disasters or by man as a result of technical intervention, such as exhaust fumes and atomic explosions.

The exhibition seeks to shed light on these different aspects of cloud depictions with a great variety of select examples of European and American painting and photography from 1800 to today. The presentation features works by Caspar David Friedrich, William Turner, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, René Magritte, Salvador Dali.

Hyperrealism 1967-2012

22.03. - 09.06.2013
http://www.museothyssen.org

The late 1960s saw the emergence of a group of artists in the USA who painted objects and scenes from daily life with a high degree of realism, using photography as the basis for their works. This new movement achieved international recognition when it participated in the Kassel Documenta of 1972. The present exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza offers the first survey of Hyperrealism, from the great US masters of the first generation such as Richard Estes, John Baeder, Robert Bechtle, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close and Robert Cottingham, the movement’s continuation in Europe and its impact on painters of subsequent generations up to the present day. Hyperrealism is not a closed movement and today, more than forty years after it first appeared, many of the group’s pioneers continue to be active, together with new artists who deploy a photo-realist technique in their works. The artistic resources and motifs have evolved and changed over time but Hyperrealist works, with their astonishing definition, precision and detail, continue to fascinate the public.

The present exhibition brings together 66 works by three generations of artists, loaned from numerous museums and private collections. It has been organised by the Institut fur Kulturaustausch (German Cultural Exchange Institute) and is curated by its director Otto Letze. The Kunsthalle in Tubingen has been the first venue to present the exhibition, which will travel to various European cities. It can be seen at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid until 9 June, followed by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK). The exhibition’s principal aim is to offer visitors a complete survey of the contribution made by Hyperrealism to the history of art and this is the first exhibition on the subject of this scale to be seen in Europe, offering an unprecedented chance to see a large group of works representative of this movement as a whole.

1000 лет золота инков. Из собрания музея «Золото Перу»/ «Oro del Peru».

19.03. – 26.05.2013
http://arts-museum.ru/

На выставке «1000 лет золота инков» в ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина  будут представлены более восьмидесяти уникальных экспонатов древних культур Южной Америки  из собрания «Музея золота» в Перу, расположенного в городе Лиме. Основу собрания этого музея составляет коллекция Мигеля Мухика Гало, в которой представлены более 8 тысяч древних экспонатов из золота и серебра. Начало коллекции Мигеля Гало положили приобретения 1935 года, сейчас в собрании «Музея золота», директором которого стала дочь известного перуанского коллекционера Виктория Мухико, собраны памятники различных культур доколумбовой Южной Америки, таких как чавин, уари, паракас, мочика, чиму, наска,  и, конечно, инков.

РОМАНОВЫ. НАЧАЛО ДИНАСТИИ. К 400-летию избрания на царство Михаила Федоровича Романова

19.03.2013–30.06.2013
http://www.shm.ru

К юбилею избрания на царство Михаила Федоровича, первого из династии Романовых, Исторический музей совместно с российскими и зарубежными музеями и архивами представит яркие памятники эпохи, сыгравшей важную роль в исторической судьбе России. После Смутного времени, разорившего страну в начале XVII века, на русский престол «советом всея земли» был избран родоначальник новой царской династии. При первых Романовых Россия завершила средневековый период своей истории и стояла на пороге грядущих преобразований.

Иван III

19.03.-14.07.2013
http://www.kreml.ru

19 марта в Одностолпной палате откроется экспозиция, посвященная Ивану III, при котором произошло объединение русских земель вокруг Москвы, ставшей центром государства, и был принят так называемый Судебник.

Предметными свидетельствами эпохи его правления являются кремлевские памятники. Как известно, именно по указу Ивана Васильевича в Москву были приглашены лучшие итальянские мастера, которые занялись перестройкой Кремля.

На выставке будут представлены редкие и ценные экспонаты — Корсунский крест, привезенный посольством Софьи Палеолог, монеты с изображением Ивана III, шитая пелена с портретами великокняжеской семьи, иконы и уникальные архивные документы.

Tresors de la Chine ancienne - Bronzes rituels de la collection Meiyintang

13.03 - 10.06.2013 Add to calendar
www.guimet.fr

Reunie depuis plus de cinquante ans par un collectionneur passionne, exigeant, admirable connaisseur de l’Asie et des arts de la Chine en particulier, cette partie de la collection Meiyintang bien qu’elle fut connue pour avoir fait l’objet d’importantes publications, n’a cependant
jamais ete presentee au public. Elle le sera ainsi pour la premiere fois en France, au musee Guimet a travers le plus bel ensemble de bronzes archaiques chinois datant des deuxieme et premier millenaires avant notre ere.

A l’inverse de ce qui se rencontre dans les autres civilisations du bronze, les bronzes archaiques chinois n’ont pas de vocation utilitaire. Leur fonction est, des l’origine, propitiatoire ou magique. En Chine, des le XIXe siecle avant J.-C., ces bronzes sont les instruments privilegies des
rites offerts aux manes des ancetres pour solliciter leur puissance, notamment sur le champ de bataille. Masquant les hesitations et la faiblesse d’une metallurgie qui cherche sa maitrise, l’art du decor mais surtout l’audace des formes atteignent immediatement a la perfection. En
temoigne l’extraordinaire elegance, le geste inspire du grand jue, ou coupe a alcool, temoignage exceptionnel de la civilisation Erlitou (XIXe-XVIe siecles av. J.-C.) par lequel commencera l’exposition.

Gerhard Richter: Elbe, November u.a.

12.03-08.09.2013
http://www.museenkoeln.de

Anlässlich einer großen Retrospektive in London, Berlin und Paris waren einige Werke von Gerhard Richter (*1932 Dresden) aus der Sammlung des Museum Ludwig lange Zeit auf Reisen. Nun zeigt das Museum seine Bestände wieder, darunter sein berühmtes Bild Ema - Akt auf einer Treppe und 48 Porträts, mit denen Richter 1972 im Deutschen Pavillon auf der Biennale in Venedig vertreten war.
Ergänzt werden die Werke der Sammlung durch die zwei grafischen Zyklen Elbe und November und weiteren Leihgaben des Künstlers und von Privatsammlern.

In der Druckserie Elbe verdichten sich die Bildebenen durch mehrfachen Farbauftrag mit der Gummiwalze. So entsteht der Eindruck von unergründlicher Tiefe. Als der Künstler 1961 die DDR verließ, vertraute er die Blätter einem Freund an. Als sie nach dem Mauerfall wieder auftauchten, war er berührt, dass er manches, was sich dort angedeutet hatte, inzwischen in seinen Abstrakten Bildern der 1980er Jahre fortgeführt hatte.

El Labrador

11.03 – 16.06.2013

http://www.museodelprado.es/
 

For the first time, the Museo del Prado will be offering the visiting public the opportunity to see the entire oeuvre of the Spanish painter Juan Fernández, known as “El Labrador”, who worked in the first half of the 17th century and was a key name in the early development of the still life in Spain. El Labrador’s fame as a painter of such works, which were greatly in demand from collectors, extended beyond Spain and paintings by his hand were to be found in the English royal collection.

The five works by the artist in the Prado’s collection – a floral still life acquired from a private collector in 1946, which may have been in the royal collections in the seventeenth century, plus four paintings that entered the Museum with the Naseiro collection in 2006 – will be exhibited alongside the rest of the artist’s known oeuvre. These additional works are primarily loaned from private international collections and will assist in promoting greater knowledge of the remarkable work of this exquisite, enigmatic painter.

Петр Первый. Великий Реформатор

09.03. - 13.09.2013
http://hermitagemuseum.org/ 
Выставочный центр "Эрмитаж-Амстердам"

2013 год объявлен Годом России в Голландии и Голландии в России. Среди множества самых разнообразных событий выделяется масштабная выставка "Петр Первый. Великий Реформатор", официально включенная в программу как выставка-открытие Года.

Экспозиция, в состав которой включены более 660 произведений изобразительного и прикладного искусства, предметов вооружения и военной амуниции, приборов и инструментов, памятников нумизматики, документов, книг и природных редкостей из собрания Государственного Эрмитажа, призвана показать многогранность личности первого российского императора, выдающегося государственного деятеля и военачальника, мореплавателя и коллекционера, любознательного и неутомимого труженика, владевшего различными ремеслами и проявившего талант во многих отраслях человеческой деятельности.

Treasures of the royal courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tzars

09.03 – 14.07.2013

http://www.vam.ac.uk

Experience the majesty of the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I to Ivan the Terrible and the early Romanovs in a major exhibition at the V&A. From royal portraits, costume and jewellery to armour and heraldry, Treasures of the Royal Courts tells the story of diplomacy between the British Monarchy and the Russian Tsars through more than 150 magnificent objects.

A rarely-shown painting of Elizabeth I, Shakespeare's First Folio, a suit of armour tailor-made for Henry VIII and the legendary ruby-studded Drake Star reveal the spectacular world of kings, queens, merchants and courtiers from 1509 to 1685. At the heart of the exhibition is the beautiful English and French silver given to the Tsars by the British royal family, on exclusive loan from the Moscow Kremlin Museums in celebration of 500 years of Anglo-Russian exchange.

Cubisti Cubismo

08.03-23.06.2013
Roma, Complesso del Vittoriano

Da Picasso a Leger, da Braque a Severini, la rivoluzione cubista arriva a Roma in una grande mostra allestita dall'8 marzo al 23 giugno al Vittoriano. Intitolata 'Cubisti Cubismo', l'importante esposizione presentera oltre 200 opere tra oli, disegni, sculture, filmati, oggetti di design, costumi e documenti che illustreranno al grande pubblico la forza di rottura del movimento creato da Picasso e Braque in Francia tra il 1907 e il 1914, capace di influenzare la cultura di un'epoca.

La rassegna presenta opere degli spagnoli Pablo Picasso e Juan Gris; dei francesi Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger; del pittore americano Marsden Hartley, dell'artista messicano Diego Rivera, della russa Natalia Goncharova; degli italiani Gino Severini e Ardengo Soffici; degli artisti inglesi Wyndham Lewis, Vanessa Bell e molti altri. In mostra, oltre ai capolavori di artisti cubisti noti e meno noti, anche l'espressione del cubismo nelle sue varie sfaccettature.

L'esposizione vanta la collaborazione e il supporto di numerosi musei di grande prestigio, tra i quali la Tate, il Victoria and Albert Museum e la Courtauld Gallery di Londra, lo State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts di Mosca, The State Hermitage Museum di San Pietroburgo, la National Gallery of Art di Washington e la Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation di New York, il Philadelphia Museum of Art di Philadelphia, la Fundacio'n Coleccio'n Thyssen-Bornemisza di Madrid. Esposti anche capolavori di importanti gallerie e collezioni private.

Международный женский день. Феминизм: от авангарда до наших дней

07.03 – 12.05.2013
wwww.mvc-rik.ru/

Традиция отмечать Международный женский день или праздник 8 марта неразрывно связана с советским периодом истории нашей страны. Трогательные открытки с изображением ландышей или тюльпанов, девушки с голубем мира или малыша с коробкой с надписью «для Мамы», веточки мимозы и подарки, которые обязательно вручают в этот день каждой женщине. Парадоксально, но в стране победившего социализма праздник 8 марта впервые в мире стал государственным и при этом никогда не ассоциировался с феминизмом. Даже сегодня отношение к феминизму в российском искусстве, как впрочем, и в социально-политическом движении, по-прежнему затуманено советской риторикой. Выставка приурочена к определенной дате: ровно сто лет назад в Санкт-Петербурге состоялось «Научное утро по женскому вопросу», на которое собралось более полутора тысяч женщин. Первый Международный женский день в России был отмечен не цветами и подарками, а требованием права голоса для женщин, государственного обеспечения материнства, протестом против дороговизны жизни и призывами к равноправию. Некоторые из требований столетней давности актуальны и по сей день, даже, если номинально они давно выполнены. Феминистские идеи в России на протяжении ста лет претерпели трансформацию – от борьбы за равноправие и официальной государственной идеологии до патриархального праздника «всех женщин». Двадцать лет назад вместе с Перестройкой пришло понимание задач феминистского искусства. Выставка «Международный женский день» – это переосмысление феминизма в искусстве на новом этапе

Mexican Art at the Louvre. Masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries

07.03 – 05.06.2013

http://www.louvre.fr

Mexican art, an area in which the Louvre’s Hispanic collection is intended to expand, will be showcased at the museum this spring.

A selection of some ten of the finest works from this “sister” school will be exhibited among the Spanish paintings. Among others, the monumental “Zurbaranesque” work of José Juárez, the Baroque dynamism of Cristóbal Villalpando and the softness and delicacy of Rodríguez Juárez will introduce visitors to the many facets of New World art during this period and give them an understanding of its close yet independent relationship with Spanish art.

Although represented in national museums, Latin American art remains little known in France. The book that accompanies this exhibition, based on inventory work conducted by the Louvre and the French National Institute of Art History (the BAILA project), provides an overview of the major Latin American works in French museums, and explores the origins and evolution of this artistic school.

Коллекция Большого театра

06.03 - 30.06.2013
www.domnaschokina.ru/

Костюмы Павловой, Кшесинской, Нуриева, Улановой; театральные работы Коровина, Лентулова и Кончаловского; бутафория, афиши и все, что позволит увидеть изнутри историю главного театра страны.

Совместный проект галереи «Дом Нащокина» и Музея Большого театра — попытка взглянуть на спектакль не из зрительного зала, а чуть ближе и даже изнутри. В экспозицию вошли работы выдающихся театральных художников (Петра Кончаловского, Константина Коровина, Аристарха Лентулова и других), костюмы признанных артистов (Анны Павловой, Матильды Кшесинской, Рудольфа Нуриева, Галины Улановой, Майи Плисецкой), предметы бутафории, фотографии, афиши и многое другое. Зрители окунутся в атмосферу классических балетов, почувствуют мощь авангардных спектаклей революционных лет и, конечно, прикоснутся к современной истории Большого театра.

Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light

06.03 – 12.08. 2013

http://www.moma.org

Bill Brandt is a founding figure in photography’s modernist traditions, and this exhibition represents a major critical reevaluation of his heralded career. Brandt’s distinctive vision—his ability to present the mundane world as fresh and strange—emerged in London in the 1930s, and drew from his time in the Paris studio of Man Ray. His visual explorations of the society, landscape, and literature of England are indispensable to any understanding of photographic history and, arguably, to our understanding of life in Britain during the middle of the 20th century.

Brandt’s activity during the Second World War, long distilled by Brandt and others to a handful of now-iconic pictures of moonlit London during the Blackout and improvised shelters during the Blitz, are presented here for the first time in the context of his assignments for the leading illustrated magazines of his day, establishing a key link between his pre- and postwar work. Brandt’s crowning artistic achievement, developed primarily between 1945 and 1961, is a series of nudes that are both personal and universal, sensual and strange, collectively exemplifying the “sense of wonder” that is paramount in his photographs. Brandt’s work is unpredictable not only in the range of his subjects but also in his printing style, which varied widely throughout his career. This exhibition is the first to emphasize the beauty of Brandt’s finest prints, and to trace the arc of their evolution.

The Angel of the Odd. Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst

05.03 - 09.06.2013
http://www.musee-orsay.fr

Arnold BöcklinShield with Gorgon's head© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
It was in the 1930s that the Italian writer and art historian Mario Praz (1896-1982) first highlighted the dark side of Romanticism, thus naming a vast swathe of artistic creation, which from the 1760s onwards exploited the shadows, excesses and irrational elements that lurked behind the apparent triumph of enlightened Reason.

This world was created in the English Gothic novels of the late 18th century, a genre of literature that fascinated the public with its penchant for the mysterious and the macabre. The visual arts quickly followed suit: many painters, engravers and sculptors throughout Europe vied with the writers to create horrifying and grotesque worlds: Goya and Géricault presented us with the senseless atrocities of war and the horrifying shipwrecks of their time, Füssli and Delacroix gave substance to the ghosts, witches and devils of Milton, Shakespeare and Goethe, whereas C.D. Friedrich and Carl Blechen cast the viewer into enigmatic, gloomy landscapes, reflecting his fate.

Following the first stage of the exhibition at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the Musée d’Orsay plans to present the many different expressions of Dark Romanticism, from Goya and Füssli to Max Ernst and the Expressionist films of the 1920s, through a selection of 200 works that includes paintings, graphic works and films.

Tiziano

05.03 - 16.06.2013
www.scuderiequirinale.it

The Concert and La Bella from Palazzo Pitti, Flora from the Uffizi, the Gozzi Altarpiece from Ancona, Danaë and the Shower of Gold from Capodimonte, Charles V with a Dog and the Self-portrait from the Prado, or the Flaying of Marsyas from Kromeriz are some of the most celebrated works of the great Venetian painter Titian (Pieve di Cadore, circa 1485 - Venice, 1576).  These and many more are to go on display at the Quirinale in an exhibition designed to stand as the ideal conclusion to the sweeping overview of Venetian painting and the debate on the crucial role that it played in the renewal of culture in Italy and in Europe, promoted by the Scuderie del Quirinale in an analysis of the work of the leading players in the modern revolution in painting, from Antonello da Messina to Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto and Tintoretto, of which Titian is the last and loftiest witness in his role as the European artist par excellence.

Недремлющий Брегет. Часы, завоевавшие мир

05.03.2013 – 19.05.2013
http://www.arts-museum.ru

Выставка  посвящена основателю часового Дома Breguet Абрахаму-Луи Бреге (1747-1823), шедевры которого покорили мир в конце XVIII – первой половине XIX века. Высокая точность, техническое совершенство, изысканный дизайн – вот те качества, благодаря которым через несколько лет после открытия собственной мастерской в Париже у Бреге появились такие клиенты, как  королева Мария-Антуанетта, император Наполеон Бонапарт, императрица Жозефина, король Великобритании Георг IV, русский император Александр I и другие. На выставке в ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина будет представлено более 170 оригинальных часов (карманные, дорожные, маятниковые), уникальные измерительные приборы, например, шагомер Александра I, а также исторические документы (патенты на изобретения, бухгалтерские книги) и другие материалы из коллекции Дома Breguet, Лувра, Национального музея Швейцарии и др. Впервые для широкой публики будут показаны  старинные часы Grande Complication номер 4111, созданные в 1827 году и приобретенные Домом Breguet на аукционе Christie’s в 2012 году. Кроме того, на выставке будут экспонироваться произведения живописи, скульптуры и графики из собраний музеев Франции и России. Это, например, изысканный «Портрет императрицы Жозефины» Пьера Поля Прюдона из собрания Национального музея дворца Мальмезон, великолепный «Портрет Марии-Антуанетты», созданный в мастерской художницы Луизы-Элизабет Виже-Лебрен и парадный «Портрет Луи-Филиппа I» Франсуа Жерара  из собрания Национального музея Версальского дворца; «Бюст Каролины Бонапарт»  Антонио Кановы из собрания Национального музея дворца Фонтенбло, а также произведения русских живописцев – «Портрет С.М. Голицына» Василия Тропинина из Музея В.А. Тропинина и московских художников, «Портрет К.О. Поццо ди Борго» Карла Брюллова из Саратовского Государственного художественного музея им. А.Н. Радищева и другие.

Applied Design

01.03.2013 – 31.01.2014

http://www.moma.org

There are still people who think that design is just about making things, people, and places pretty. In truth, design has spread to almost every facet of human activity, from science and education to politics and policymaking, for a simple reason: one of design’s most fundamental tasks is to help people respond to change. A designer today can choose to focus on interactions, interfaces, the Internet, visualizations, socially minded infrastructures and products, 5-D spaces, bioengineering, sustainability, video games, critical scenarios, and yes, even furniture. Several outstanding examples of this vitality and diversity are presented in this installation, ranging from a mine detonator by young Afghani designer Massoud Hassani to a vessel made by transforming desert sand into glass using only the energy of the sun. Also on display are 14 videogames—including Pac-Man, The Sims, and Katamari Damacy—that constitute the beginning of a new branch of MoMA’s collection.