To have an inter-country collaboration of museums is already an accomplished achievement, and when this alliance aims to bring the world’s finest artists’ works, it is a fraternization of art and its society. Never before Italy’s Borghese Gallery considered lending their finest works to any other country but Musée Jacquemart- André makes an exception here through a unique partnership with the Gallery that brings forward the works of the virtuosos from Caravaggio to Rubens, along with works by Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Antonello da Messina, and Bernini.
The exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André will hold forty paintings from the Borghese Gallery from September 6, 2024, to January 5, 2025. Having a year-long renovation campaign in the fall of 2024, the museum has an objective of gaining maximum visitors through this beautiful exhibition. The viewers will be able to discover the exceptional Italian art from the 16th and 17th centuries of Raphael, Antonello da Messina, Parmigiano, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, Bernini, etc.) and Nordic painters who lived in Italy (Rubens, Gerrit von Honthorst, etc.) In addition to this, the exhibition will pay a special tribute to the lesser-known artists, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Le Cavalier d’Arpin, and Jacopo Bassano. Hence, the artwork presentation will portray the meaning of major themes explored by the artists while referencing the collection of modern paintings of the Galleria Borghese.
Some of the artworks that remain the focus of this exhibition are Leda and Swan by Leonardo da Vinci, Susanna and Elders by Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait d’homme by Antonello de Messine, Boy with a Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio, Young Woman With Unicorn by Raphael, and Neptune by Bernini among other significant artworks.
Housed in the Villa Borghese Pinciana which was built between 1607 and 1616 on the order of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633) to exhibit his collection of ancient works and modern paintings and sculptures while surrounded by the beautiful gardens, Borghese Gallery is surely endowed in an insatiable curiosity with an extraordinary capacity to depict the masterpieces. Year after year, the Cardinal established himself as the first and most important collector and patron of the history of modern art, thereby making Villa Borghese the true museum avant la lettre.
Similar to this, the Jacquemart-André Museum was formed to display the collection of the art collectors who marked art history including Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart. The museum is committed to highlighting the rich collection of paintings, Italian sculptures, and furniture from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, thereby being the most significant part of French art.
The union of the two privileged museums to display the old master paintings in France is not only a commutation of a new relationship between the two countries politically but also an effort to unite two cultures through artistic craftsmanship.
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