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Cézanne in Paris

Until the 26th of February, the exhibition ‘Cézanne et Paris’ will be open at the Musée du Luxembourg. The exhibition is organized with the collaboration of the Petit Palais and the Fine Arts Museum of the City of Paris. it gathers close to 80 works that come from different collections from around the world to [...]

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Monet exhibit in Paris

On September 21st an exhibition that features over 180 works of the legendary Claude Monet opened at the Grand Palais in Paris. You can enjoy it until January 24, 2011. With more than 700,000 visitors expected at the Grand Palais, this magnificent exhibition is certainly an example of the Blockbuster dimensions necessary for the survival [...]

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Many Impressionist artists were obsessed with gardens and natural imagery became a fundamental part of their work. Now thanks to collaboration with the National Gallery in Edinburgh, the Thyssen museum in Madrid will present an exhibition dedicated to botanical landscapes of the French Impressionist painters who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century. [...]

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Paris and its impressionist painters

As with almost all art movements, Impressionism was born out of something through force. It came about during the Second French Empire during the reign of Louis Napoleon III, along with the traditional code of the Fine Arts. What drove the impressionist painters such as Manet, Monet and Renoir to paint masterpieces known internationally was [...]

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