Rembrandt, Vermeer et le siecle d'or hollandais

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Rembrandt, Vermeer et le Siecle d'or hollandais presente les pieces les plus remarquables de l'une des collections particulieres les plus importantes dans ce domaine, la collection Leiden, New York, ainsi qu'un choix d'/uvres provenant du Louvre. Ce catalogue d'exposition met en lumiere l'extraordinaire epanouissement de l'art au dix-septieme siecle, pendant la periode appelee Siecle d'or hollandais, marquee par une prosperite sans precedent. Pionniers de la nature morte, du realisme, du portrait, du paysage, de la peinture de genre, des artistes tels que Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Lievens, Gerard Dou, Frans van Mieris ou Frans Hals ont insuffle une vie nouvelle dans l'art hollandais, suscitant un reveil artistique national. Leurs /uvres reunies ici donnent un apercu du Siecle d'or hollandais, ce temps ou l'ouverture vers de nouveaux horizons engendra des formes d'expression artistique captivantes.

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Blaise Ducos is curator of seventeenth- and eigthteenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Musee du Louvre in Paris. Ducos organised the exhibition Frans Post. Brazil in the Court of Louis XIV (Musee du Louvre, 2005) with Pedro Correa do Lago as well as The Revolutions of the Classical Age (2009, Tokyo and Kyoto). Along with George Keyes and Lloyd DeWitt, Ducos is curator of the Rembrandt et la figure du Christ (English: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus) exhibition (Musee du Louvre, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Detroit Institute of Arts, 2011-2012) Lara Yeager-Crasselt is curator of The Leiden Collection in New York. She was formerly Interim Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Clark Art Institute. A specialist in early modern Dutch and Flemish art, Yeager received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2013. She has held research positions at KU Leuven, Belgium (as a Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow) and in the Department of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art, and has served as Professorial Lecturer of Art History at The George Washington University and at The Catholic University of America. Her publications include Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels.