Angelica Kauffman(n), exposition à la Royal Academy de Londres - du 1er mars au 30 juin 2024

C'est avec une pensée spéciale pour l'ami LNLN, friand de cette talentueuse peintre et portraitiste   , que je signale cette expo, qui ouvrira bientôt ses portes !!!  

Angelica Kauffman
1 March - 30 June 2024
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries | Burlington House

Angelica Kauffman was one of the most celebrated artists of the 18th century. In this major exhibition, we trace her trajectory from child prodigy to one of Europe's most sought-after painters.


Angelica Kauffman
Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794
Oil on canvas. 147.3 x 215.9 cm. Nostell Priory National Trust Images/John Hammond

Known for her celebrity portraits and pioneering history paintings, Angelica Kauffman helped to shape the direction of European art. She painted some of the most influential figures of her day – queens, countesses, actors and socialites – and she reinvented the genre of history painting by focusing largely on female protagonists from classical history and mythology.


Angelica Kauffman RA
Design, 1778-80
Oil on canvas. 126 cm x 148.5 cm. Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo: John Hammond

This exhibition covers Kauffman’s life and work: her rise to fame in London, her role as a founding member of the Royal Academy and her later career in Rome where her studio became a hub for the city’s cultural life.


Angelica Kauffman
Self-portrait in the Traditional Costume of the Bregenz Forest, 1781
Oil on canvas. 61.4 x 49.2 cm. Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Ältere Kunstgeschichtliche Sammlungen, Inv.Nr. Gem 301. Photo: Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseen

See paintings and preparatory drawings by Kauffman, including some of her finest self-portraits, her celebrated ceiling paintings for the Royal Academy’s first home in Somerset House, as well as history paintings of subjects including Circe and Cleopatra, and discover the remarkable life of the artist whom one of her contemporaries described as “the most cultivated woman in Europe”.

Source : The Royal Academy of Arts

Et... reportage à venir dans le courant du mois de mars !!!!  

Cet autoportrait est d'une sensibilité exquise. Quelle douceur un peu mélancolique dans l'expression !
Merci, mon cher Momo, pour cette annonce.

Merci pour cette annonce ! Et dans l'attente donc de l'ouverture de cette expo...

Superbe expo !!!! Seulement deux douzaines de tableaux peut-être, mais cela permet de mieux les admirer chacun en détail !



Reportage à suivre !

Je t'ai remis d'aplomb ...

Merci Eleo, ça n’arrivait plus depuis un moment, et ça fait quelques semaines que ça recommence…. Grrr

Commençons donc notre visite !























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