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By painting his monumental work The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819, Théodore Géricault elevated a news event to the level of...
Théodore Géricault « La beauté du désastre »
Raphael strives to capture the open and sympathetic face of his friend and deliberately simplifies his composition. Yet the image is filled with...
Rafaello Sanzio dit Raphaël « Portrait de l’ami en homme de cour, Portrait de Baldassare Castiglione »
Is the painting by Giorgiorne or by Titien ? It is difficult to distinguish the work of Giorgione (who died in 1510 at the age of 33) from the early...
Tiziano Vecellio dit Titien « Un souvenir d’Arcadie, Le Concert Champêtre »
La Goulue, the famous cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge and queen of Belle Époque Paris nightlife, had somewhat fallen from grace. She was now...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec « Une légende fin de siècle »
Three cards in hand, gold on the table—we are in the middle of a game of prime, a precursor to poker. Eight gold coins lie before the female...
Georges de La Tour « Le tricheur à l’as de carreau »
During his final years in Rome, Nicolas Poussin painted four works for the Duke of Richelieu evoking the seasons. Considered the painter’s...
Nicolas Poussin « Admirable tremblement du temps »
At the end of his career, Ingres brought together 25 nude women in a painting he prepared with great care. The study of the painter’s extensive...
Ingres « Le regard captif »
A century later, Alain Jaubert rediscovered the exact location where Seurat prepared his painting, as well as the studio where he completed it. In...
Georges Seurat « l’Utopie orange vert pourpre »
On the right, a very dark tree clings to the slope of a hill. At the center stands Saint Anne. She wears her hair in braids, her eyes lowered,...
Léonard de Vinci « Le sourire et l’entrelacs, La Vierge, l’enfant Jésus et Sainte Anne »
The silhouette of a giant wave about to engulf fragile boats: this image of suspended fate has traveled the world in the form of postcards, posters,...
Hokusai « La Menace suspendue »
Blue period, blue traces, blue sponges... Yves Klein deserved his nickname of "Yves the monochrome". Even though he used many other colours, it is...
Yves Klein « Traces de l’époque bleue »
A still life featuring a large fish, painted in the Dutch manner, The Ray immerses us in the quiet life of familiar objects that the artist took...
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin « La saveur de l’immobile, La Raie »
Euphronios is one of the rare Greek vase painters whose name has come down to us. An exceptional artist, he stopped painting at the height of his...
Euphronios « Euphronios a peint »
Let us travel back to the 15th century and imagine the interior of the workshop of the painter Jan van Eyck: a porter delivers a wooden panel, one...
Van Eyck « Miracle dans la loggia »
From his very first paintings, Rembrandt stages himself. Thereafter, at least a hundred times, he would take his own face as the sole subject of an...
Rembrandt« Le miroir des paradoxes »
Dedicated to one of the major paintings by Auguste Renoir, created in 1876, this documentary combines a meticulous analysis of the artwork with...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir « Les beaux dimanches d’été »
It was a French prelate who commissioned the decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of Saint Louis of the French in Rome, dedicated to his...
Le Caravage « Anges et bourreaux »
Composed in Nice, at the Hôtel Régina where the painter had been living since 1949, The Sadness of the King, a 1952 painting nearly four...
Henri Matisse « A vif dans la couleur »
A fast-paced documentary about a second generation of punk rockers living in Toronto. It offers insight into this segment of culture by videotaping...
Not Dead Yet
Ten similar faces are printed in black, in two rows, on a big canvas measuring 5,65 meters long by 2 high. Similar, these faces ? Not quite : the...
Andy Warhol « Ten Lizes »
