Art du XVIème siècle/16th century Art

  Agnolo Bronzino (Florence 1503-72), Portrait of A Man, Facing Left, With A Quill and a Sheet of Paper, ca. 1527. Estimate $3 million and $5 million. Courtesy Sotheby's NEW YORK – A restituted portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Bronzino will come to auction next year. Expected to fetch a price between $3 million and $5 million, the work will be offered during an Old Masters sale at Sotheby’s in New York that is scheduled to take place in January 2023. The ca. 1527 painting was restituted... [Lire la suite]

Vittore Carpaccio, Virgin Reading, c. 1510, oil on canvas transferred from panel, overall: 78 x 51 cm (30 11/16 x 20 1/16 in.), framed: 119.7 x 86.4 x 10 cm (47 1/8 x 34 x 3 15/16 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection Washington, DC—A leading figure in the art of Renaissance Venice, Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/1466–1525/1526) is best known for his large, spectacular narrative paintings that brought sacred history to life. Celebrated in his native city of Venice for centuries,... [Lire la suite]

  François Clouet (Tours, vers 1515 – Paris, 1572), Henri de France duc d’Orléans, futur Henri II, (1519-1559), vers 1540-1545, Huile sur chêne, Chantilly, musée Condé, PE 259 © Arcanes CHANTILLY - Le roi François Ier, fier de sa nombreuse descendance, demanda à son portraitiste en titre, Jean Clouet, de capturer sur le papier les frimousses de ses enfants afin d’en tirer des portraits. Une série de dessins aujourd’hui conservée à Chantilly. Deux séries peintes en furent tirées. La première, de petites dimensions et due... [Lire la suite]

Daniel Hopfer and Hieronymus Hopfer, Emperor Charles V, 1520 (1521?), etching (iron) with open biting and unique contemporary hand-coloring in green, red, yellow, pink and brown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann. WASHINGTON, DC.- Printmaking flourished in Northern Europe during the late 15th and 16th centuries as artists harnessed the power of the multiplied image. Relatively inexpensive, portable, and widely disseminated, prints aided religious devotion, advanced... [Lire la suite]

Considéré de son vivant comme un génie universel, Albrecht Dürer n’en finit pas de fasciner. Par ses gravures, il a contribué à façonner la Renaissance européenne en se plaçant au cœur des échanges artistiques. Trop rarement exposé en France, cet immense artiste est exceptionnellement mis à l’honneur à Chantilly, à l’aide de plus de 200 œuvres ! Pour la première fois, deux collections majeures d’œuvres de Dürer en France, celle du musée Condé à Chantilly et celle de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, unissent leurs forces pour... [Lire la suite]

  BIRMINGHAM.- To mark the last year of a unique five-year collaboration between the Barber Institute and Royal Collection Trust, a new exhibition - co-curated by eight students studying for an MA in Art History and Curating at the University of Birmingham - showcases a selection of works by the great German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). The students have chosen highlights of the Royal Collection’s outstanding holdings of Dürer’s work - including 15 prints, 3 drawings and a rare painting -... [Lire la suite]

  VIENNA - This exhibition, conceived in collaboration with the Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz” in Winterthur (Switzerland), is the first to explore the artistic beginnings of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). Cranach, a native of Franconia, produced his earliest extant works in Vienna, presumably arriving in the city around 1500. These works are celebrated for their remarkable expressive power – radically different from the courtly-elegant manner he was to adopt soon afterwards when he became court painter to the... [Lire la suite]

Cristóvão de Figueiredo, Le Départ des reliques de sainte Auta de Cologne (revers), 1522 - 1525. Huile sur panneau de chêne. Lisbonne, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, inv. 1462 BR. Pint. H. 70,5 x L. 76 cm © DGPC/ADF, Luísa Oliveira / José Paulo Ruas PARIS - Très rarement présentée ou même identifiée dans les musées français, la peinture portugaise mérite d’être mieux connue : cette présentation de treize panneaux peints de très belle qualité, prêtés par le Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga de... [Lire la suite]

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – Amboise, 1519) (?) Attributions modernes : d’après Leonardo da Vinci (Études de têtes) ; Francesco Granacci (Saint Jean Baptiste) Saint Jean Baptiste enfant. Pierre noire, plume et encre brune, lavis brun, H. 14,3 ; L. 11,5 cm. Complété en partie supérieure. Huit dessins collés en plein sur une feuille du Libro de’ disegni, reprise par Mariette : encadrement ornemental à la plume, à l’encre brune et au lavis... [Lire la suite]

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), The Nymph of the Spring. Painted in circa 1540. Estimate: £6,000,000-8,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022. London – Lucas Cranach the Elder’s (1472-1553) The Nymph of the Spring (estimate: £6,000,000-8,000,000) and Jan Jansz. den Uyl’s (1595-1639) Pewter jug and silver tazza on a table (estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000) from The Collection of Cecil & Hilda Lewis, will be leading highlights in the Old Masters Evening... [Lire la suite]