“From MONET to MATISSE. French Moderns, 1850-1950”

Padua, Palazzo Zabarella, 16 dicembre 2023 – 12 maggio 2024

Exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum, and promoted by Fondazione Bano in collaboration with the City of Padua – Department of Culture “From MONET to MATISSE. French Moderns, 1850-1950” tells, with 59 works from the Brooklyn Museum’s extraordinary European collection, about one of the most fascinating centuries in art history, when artists moved away from the academic artistic tradition to focus on subjects of everyday life. But that’s not all. It also celebrates France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

On display are paintings and sculptures-different in subject, size, and style-made by the leading artists of the time, both those of French origin and those who trained and exhibited in France: starting with Monet and Cézanne, and continuing with Degas, Matisse, Renoir, Courbet, Corot, Rodin, Chagall, Boldini, Léger, Morisot… and many others to be discovered, for a total of 45 masters.
Their works represent the avant-garde movements that defined modern art from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, tracing a formal and conceptual shift from the representation of the pictorial to the evocation of the idea, from a focus on naturalism to the rise of abstraction.

The exhibition includes examples of the key movements of the period-realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism, Fauvism, cubism, and surrealism-that emerged in and around Paris between 1850 and 1950 and quickly became part of the dominant Western canon.
“From MONET to MATISSE. French Moderns, 1850-1950” is divided into four sections – Landscape, Still Life, Portraits and Figures, and The Nude – and draws a path that shows how the basic conception of art making changed over the course of a century.

Founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library Association, the Brooklyn Museum boasts a permanent collection of more than 140,000 objects (from Egyptian to contemporary art) and is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. It is also considered a pioneer among American collecting institutions and recognized as one of the leading repositories of French modernism in North America.

Opening hours:
Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Ticket office closes at 6:15 p.m.
Closed Mondays (including December 25, 2023)
From December 26, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the exhibition is open daily
Special openings:
– Monday, January 1
– Monday, February 12
– Monday, April 1

Tickets:
Full € 15.00
Reduced € 13.00 (Valid for over 65; 18 to 25 year olds; disabled persons or persons with disabilities; members of the FAI and “Touring Club Italia” or “Padova Card” holders; faculty and staff of the University of Padua and the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice; employees of the City of Padua)
Family Ticket Adults €13.00 Children €7.00 (Valid for 2 adults and for children from 6 to 17 years old up to a maximum of 5 people).
Free admission Valid for children up to 5 years old (not in school group); accompanying persons of disabled visitors;

More info and contacts, online ticket purchase https://www.zabarella.it/biglietti-e-tariffe