Fine art treasures from the Louvre exhibited at Legion of Honor in San...
Advertisement Banners are up around the city announcing the exhibition at the Legion of Honor, "Royal Treasures from the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette" open November 17, 2012 through March 17,...
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SAN FRANCISCO • Treasures of all sorts are housed in museums large and small in the City by the Bay. Among the artistic and cultural delights on display in the coming months are ancient Chinese...
View Article'Royal Treasures From the Louvre' review
"Royal Treasures From the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette," which opens Saturday at the Legion of Honor, brings into view an array of decorative art objects that have seldom, if ever, left...
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Related topics Exhibit ReviewLegion of HonorLouvre Rating for "Royal Treasures from the Louvre" 4 Advertisement San Francisco's Legion of Honor is opening the exhibit "Royal Treasures from the Louvre"...
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Paris was often on the artistic itinerary for Fine Arts Museums Board President Dede Wilsey and the late FAM Director John Buchanan. The two traveled there numerous times to scope out exhibition ideas...
View ArticleRoyal Treasures From The Louvre: French Exhibition Debuts In San Francisco...
As just a momentary glimpse of Louis XIV's royal chateau at Versailles makes abundantly clear, the French royal family knew how to live. At least until they all got their heads chopped off. Over the...
View ArticleMajor art exhibitions planned for Sacramento, Bay Area in 2013 - Art...
Jan Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and a half-century of paintings by Sacramento's Gregory Kondos are among the highlights of art exhibitions opening in 2013. Kondos, who was once dubbed "the...
View ArticleHoliday fun in the week ahead – Nutcrackers, Nureyev, and New Year's Eve
Are you a last-minute Holiday shopper? Then consider a gift of Entertainment. The City is filled with something for everyone. San Francisco Ballet's sumptuous production of The Nutcracker is in full...
View ArticleLouvre May Get Foreigner as New Chief as Hollande Budget Shrinks
The search for a new chief of the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, may include non-French candidates for the first time in the institution’s more than 200-year history. French President...
View ArticleThe Louvre has come to San Francisco
Related topics This WeekendSan Francisco Events Advertisement It is now possible to experience a bit of French culture without shelling out for the high price of air fare. The Louvre has come to San...
View ArticleNippon TV and the Louvre Museum Sign Agreement to Exhibit Louvre Masterpieces...
(Source: NTV - Nippon Television Network Corporation) 2014/07/18 Nippon TV and the Louvre Museum Sign Agreement to Exhibit Louvre Masterpieces in Japan in 2015 Nippon Television Network Corporation...
View ArticleGold & Marble Dappled by Death>
What to do with Versailles? Arguably this great gilded temple to the unforgiveable excess of French royalty out-glitters all its ancien regime competitors. Tapestries. Marbles. Porphyrie. Filigreed...
View ArticleWorld's most visited palaces and castles
(Travel + Leisure)Quick, imagine a castle: it probably looks a lot like Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle, the turreted inspiration for Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle. Each year, more than 1.5...
View ArticleWinged Victory of Samothrace Spotlight Exhibition Begins at Musée du Louvre...
(Source: NTV - Nippon Television Network Corporation) 2015/03/05 Winged Victory of Samothrac e Spotlight Exhibition Begins at Musée du Louvre in Paris - Nippon TV Holdings Served as Main Sponsor for...
View ArticleGetty Museum to Present Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV (J Paul Getty...
(Source: J Paul Getty Museum) Exhibition is the first major tapestry show in the Western U.S. in four decades Woven Gold, along with three other exhibitions across the Getty, marks the 300th...
View ArticleA Louvre you'll have time to love The Louvre exhibit in Quebec City imparts a...
When Quebec's Musée national des beaux-arts began negotiations with the Louvre for a major loan to mark Quebec City's 400th anniversary, the Canadians knew better than to ask for the Mona Lisa. "There...
View ArticleLouvre Embracing America -
By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago PARIS - Americans love the Louvre and the feeling is mutual. The venerable French museum will embrace all things American this year, mounting an...
View ArticleLouvre Museum Going American
(AP) Americans love the Louvre and the feeling is mutual. The venerable French museum will embrace all things American this year, mounting an exhibit of New World painters, featuring author Toni...
View ArticleConservation treatment of the Winged Victory of Samothrace and its monumental...
(Source: Musée du Louvre) Press release Conservation treatment Sept. 2013 - Mar. 2015 Denon Wing The Winged Victory of Samothrace at the top of the Daru staircase Louvre Museum, Department of Greek,...
View ArticleLouvre's new wonder boy
Henri Loyrette, the Louvre Museum's incoming director, is one of the youngest people to take on the role at a relatively youthful 48. He is also the youngest member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts,...
View ArticleMarie Antoinette, through a glass, illuminated
That singularly one-dimensional historic figure, the Queen of France, receives a surprising and thrilling treatment in the 2012 "Farewell, My Queen." Benoit Jacquot, the director, has produced some 30...
View ArticleUnlocking the Louvre's secrets
WHEN "The Da Vinci Code" opens Friday in the U.S., one of the first places moviegoers will see is the Louvre, where the story starts. Director Ron Howard was allowed to film in the museum, so...
View ArticlePurists vilify Louvre over 'vulgar' plan to lease out masterpieces
Leading figures from the French art world have accused the Louvre of cultural prostitution for signing a multimillion-pound deal to exhibit works in Atlanta and negotiating a second deal to build a...
View ArticleThe queen of museums
When you're talking about the Musee de Louvre, it's easy -- maybe even necessary -- to speak in superlatives. Besides being the largest structure in Paris (it stretches for almost half a mile) and the...
View ArticleLouvre Atlanta: Louis luxury
By Porter Anderson CNNAdjust font size: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The first large change-out of artworks in the three-year Louvre Atlanta cycle of exhibitions at the High Museum trades charcoal...
View ArticleReview: Legion of Honor displays Marie-Antoinette artifacts
It was her most famous line, and she may never have said it. "Let them eat cake," according to Marie-Antoinette biographer Stefan Zweig, is just one of many groundless myths about the legendary figure...
View ArticleOpening of François Boucher exhibition
H.R.H. Princess Marie, in her role as patron, will attend the opening of the exhibition "François Boucher - Fragments of a world picture" at Gl. Holtegaard tomorrow, Thursday, 16 August. The exhibition...
View ArticleQajar Art and Culture at Louvre
ART & CULTURE DESK TEHRAN - After his formal visit to Golestan Museum with its affluent collection of Qajar era's art and culture, head of Louvre Museum announced that a similar exhibition on the...
View ArticleMuseums toast Kempner and Antoinette
SAN FRANCISCO (, ) - There is a rich, offbeat lineup of exhibits coming to the de Young and the Legion of Honor. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Director John E. Buchanan Jr. announced plans at...
View ArticleLouvre - DNP Museum Lab. Masterpieces of Spanish Painting (Musée du Louvre)
(Source: Musée du Louvre) Press release Multimedia From July 4, 2013 Denon wing, 1st floor, rooms 25 and 26 "Masterpieces of Spanish Painting in the Louvre" Presented in Tokyo from April 2012 to...
View ArticlePicasso is too low-brow for the Louvre
In an office on the ground floor of the Louvre, cluttered with books and papers, Henri Loyrette is rolling his eyes in exasperation. The museum's director has been denying accusations by detractors of...
View ArticleLe Louvre Inc.
Even by her own exacting standards, the black-tie gala that Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash organized in Paris on June 10 was exceptional. The 272 attendees, who paid up to $10,000 each, included...
View ArticleSacre Bleu! It's the Louvre Inc.
Even by her own standards, the black-tie gala that Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash organized in Paris on June 10 was exceptional. The 272 guests, who paid up to $10,000 each to attend, included a...
View ArticleSacre Bleu! It's the Louvre Inc.!
Even by her own standards, the black-tie gala that Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash organized in Paris on June 10 was exceptional. The 272 guests, who paid up to $10,000 each to attend, included a...
View ArticleFit for a queen
The aristocratic riches of Marie Antoinette make a splashy exhibit at The Legion of Honor By MEG MCCONAHEY It was her "pleasure house," a sylvan retreat from the palace parade where every movement,...
View ArticleLustrous visions, cut from stone
Despite signs to the contrary, conspicuous consumption is not what it used to be. Most exhibitions of decorative arts from the past, especially Europe's monarchical age, drive that fact home in...
View ArticleLouvre: World’s largest museum
Text: Let me be frank. The arched hallways of the Louvre are not where you belong. As a fresh proposal, consider my living room. Since you’re the goddess of love and beauty born out of the foam of...
View ArticleTapestry exhibits weave magical Baroque details
"Woven frescoes" is the happy phrase coined by Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to describe his great exhibition Tapestry in the Baroque. This brings together a...
View ArticleExhibition of the Animal Kingdoms and Treasures from the Louvre
Related topics Legion of Honor MuseumLouvre Museum Advertisement This Saturday, two brand new exhibitions are coming to San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum. First up is Artful Animals. This...
View ArticleLouvre treasures at S.F. Legion of Honor
Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, a chief curator at the Louvre, picked up the egg-shaped agate ewer and turned it over, handling it as gently as a newborn with her white-gloved hands. First she showed a...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead — John Cranko's 'Onegin' opens tonight at San Francisco Ballet
Thursday, March 21st through Thursday, March 28th ONEGIN — San Francisco Ballet War Memorial Opera House After receiving rave reviews last season, SF Ballet presents an encore engagement of John...
View Article"Royal Treasures from the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette" at the Legion
Related topics The Week AheadFAMSFFrench decorative artsVersailles Advertisement Talleyrand, the wily French diplomat who served every ruling French monarch from Louis XVI through the restoration, is...
View Article10 Jun 2015 “Sèvres: Porcelain of the Kings” Celebrating extraordinary French...
(Source: The University of Hong Kong) "Sèvres: Porcelain of the Kings" Celebrating extraordinary French Porcelain 10 Jun 2015 The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) is presenting a major...
View Article{English} A Triumph for the Royal "Orléans" Sale At Sotheby's Paris - Total...
(Source: Sotheby's Inc) Microsoft Word - Orleans PostSale(English) Sept15 Press release: Paris | 33 (0)1 53 05 53 66 | Sophie Dufresne | sophie.dufresne@sothebys.com | 33 (0)1 53 05 52 32 | Chloé...
View ArticleWeave through Woven Gold at The Getty
Louis Vuitton, Rolex and Ferrari are some of today's status symbols. In the 17th and 18th century, tapestries, which require extraordinary amounts of time, money and talent, conveyed wealth and power....
View ArticleTapestries of Louis XIV
One of the first things seven-year-old Louis XIV did as France's King was to give away a set of exquisite medieval tapestries. As an adult, the Sun King wouldn't make the same mistake. During his...
View ArticleGetty Museum Presents Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV (J Paul Getty Museum)
(Source: J Paul Getty Museum) MEDIA CONTACTS: Amy Hood Getty Communications (310) 440-6427 ahood@getty.edu Autumn, before 1669, Gobelins Manufactory (French, 1662 - present). Cartoon attributed to...
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