A study trip to Nîmes as part of the UNESCO application

 

A study trip to Nîmes on November 29 and 30, 2022

The exhibition The Art of Nîmes to be held in the IESA gallery from March 22 to April 6, 2023, organized by the students of Master 1 in Old Master Art under the guidance of David Brouzet, lead professor at IESA arts&culture, accompanies an event of international importance and reach: the City of Nîmes’s application to have the Maison Carrée listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The result will be announced in July 2023 and IESA fully intends to celebrate, as it should, the positive verdict – let us not doubt it! – of this application.

It is part of a 2022-2023 season dedicated by IESA to Provence and Languedoc.

Following this exhibition, a study trip to Nîmes is organized for students on November 29 and 30, 2022, to let them visit the city’s emblematic monuments and meet museum curators, tourism professionals, and municipal officials.

In addition, as part of the UNESCO application, students will have the opportunity to meet the two people leading the application:

- Mary Bourgade, deputy mayor of Nîmes, in charge of Ancient Heritage and the UNESCO application,

- Jean-Luc Nito, chief heritage curator, project lead for the Maison Carrée de Nîmes UNESCO World Heritage nomination.

The aim of this trip is to let students master the subject in preparation for the exhibition and to meet tourism professionals, museum curators, and those in charge of the application.

Students, thanks to IESA, have the opportunity to support this application.

The Maison Carrée in Nîmes

The Monuments du Midi, toile de Jouy, circa 1818, private collection

Eared bowl, Nîmes, mid-18th century, private collection

Study Trip Program

  • The Maison Carrée
  • The Musée de la Romanité and the Arènes
  • The Musée des Beaux-Arts (meeting with Pascal Trarieux, its curator)
  • The Old Nîmes Museum
  • The Jardins de la Fontaine and the Tour Magne
  • The restoration project for Hippolyte Flandrin’s paintings at the Église Saint-Paul
  • Subject to confirmation: reception in one of the finest private mansions of Nîmes (dating mainly from the late 18th century), the hôtel d’Aubais
  • The Carré d’Art
  • Subject to confirmation: the studio of visual artist Claude Viallat