Medieval Italian Art in France? Oui. Le Musee du Petit Palais
June 16th 2006 10:30
Bonjour tout le monde!!!
(Hello everyone)
For art connoisseurs, France is heaven. It is a place with so many fantastic art collections around the country. There is the Louvre: the most famous of the museums and many other less famous collections throughout the countryside.
And this place is one of them: le Musée du Petit Palais. It has been open since 1976, so is relatively young when compared to the other grandfather museums in France. It houses one of the most important collections of “Italian primitives” outside Italy. [Italian primitives = gothic and byzantine artworks].
An example of an Italian Primitive: Madonna by Gentile da Fabriano (public domain picture from wikipedia.org)
The museum was formed by works from the Musée Calvet and the Campana collection. The Campana Collection was the property the important 19th century collector, Giampietro Campana, until 1857 when he was arrested for owing one million Roman ecus.
Napoleon III bought the some 300 works for France. They were first displayed in Paris, before being scattered among the provençal art museums. In 1976, they were reunited in Avignon. Now, it’s a huge collection, with sculpture, murals and paintings from the 12th century right through to the 17th century.
Le Musée is located on the north side of the place du Palais. Check it out if you’re an art lover. It looks pretty fantastic.
À lundi
See you Monday
Melinda
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