“Le Grand Tour. Souvenirs d’un voyage en Italie” (The Grand Tour: Memories of a Trip to Italy)
Organized by our Masters Year 1 Old Master and Modern Art and Professional Masters in Art Market, Old Master Art specialization.
Exhibition from March 27 to Friday, April 5, 2024 (14:30 - 18:00)
IESA Gallery
The Grand Tour is the name of a vast travel circuit undertaken from the 17th to the 19th century by young members of the European elite, mainly French or English, in order to complete their artistic and cultural education.
It gave some the opportunity to bring back to their home countries artworks, portraits, "vedute", reductions of antiquities, this corpus forming the decor of some rooms in their homes. This phenomenon took on particular scale in England.
The museography of the exhibition is inspired by the Piranesi room at the Louvre. The many casts of antiquities displayed in the gallery, busts, full-length sculptures, bas-reliefs, and plaster architectural elements come from the Lorenzi workshop in Arcueil, with which IESA has renewed its partnership. The centerpiece is a reduction of the Arch of Constantine in Rome, made using a 3D printer.
The walls are adorned with paintings, including a copy of the Saint Cecilia by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, held in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, engravings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and after Raphael, Guido Reni and Giulio Romano, as well as Neapolitan gouaches.
The exhibition is enriched by loans from former IESA students.
The educational program linked to this exhibition includes:
- Two master classes led by a specialist on the subject.
- Three visits to the Louvre Museum: the Department of Paintings, the Department of Decorative Arts, and the exhibition Naples in Paris. The Louvre invites the Museo di Capodimonte.
- A visit to the Chapel of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- A private visit to collectors' home to see the collection devoted to the Grand Tour displayed in their "petit salon".
- A visit to the Lorenzi cast workshop in Arcueil
- Working sessions as part of the partnership with the Early Music Department of the CRR (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris).
- Concerts and recitals will take place within the exhibition.
Dates of the concerts given by the musicians of the Early Music Department of the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris
March 29 at 18:30
April 3 at 18:30
April 5 at 18:30
Inside the IESA gallery.
Exceptional multidisciplinary events:
As part of the partnership established with the CRR (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris), IESA offers a joint module with it on the music salons of the Hôtel de Noailles in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Hôtel de Guines in Courbevoie.
Joint working sessions for CRR students and Masters Year 1 Old Master and Modern Art students.
On the program for the session devoted to the Hôtel de Noailles in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Hôtel de Guines in Courbevoie:
visit of the Hôtel de Guines led by its owners, Stéphanie and Cyril de Ricou, founders of the Atelier de Ricou, which specializes in painting applied to architecture and decoration.
A visit to the Théâtre de l’Odéon, the work of architect Charles de Wailly and sculptor Jean-Baptiste Boiston.
A presentation of the work will take place in these two mansions in the form of two exceptional concerts:
- June 2 at the Hôtel de Noailles
- June 4 at the Hôtel de Guines
times to be confirmed.
Study days in Versailles and Rennes
These study days allow students to meet the curators of the two exhibitions. They deal as much with the method of preparing an exhibition as with the content of the events.
The first study day focused on visiting the exhibition devoted by the Château de Versailles to Noël Coypel and the Grand Decor.
The second will take place in Rennes, where a visit to the Grand Chambre of the Parlement de Bretagne is planned, along with a visit to the temporary exhibition Noël Coypel (1628-1707) led by its curator, Guillaume Kazerouni, and a visit to the museum’s permanent collections.
