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Événements à Rome et alentours : détails
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| Du 07 Mars 2008 au 29 Juin 2008
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| Pierre Auguste Renoir. Tradition and innovation
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from March 07 to June 29 2008
Complesso del Vittoriano
Via San Pietro in Carcere, Rome
The exhibition at the Vittoriano will showcase 130 works on loan from museums across the world that Renoir painted after his trip, during the last 40 years of his life.
Renoir started his career in Paris painting in the open air alongside his friend Claude Monet. After he was called up for the Franco-Prussian war, Renoir returned to Paris and spent several years on Impressionist painting before deciding the movement was what he described as ''a blind alley''.
During his voyage to Italy he visited Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Capri and Palermo, where he was bowled over by the experience of seeing classical and Renaissance art close up.
He was especially taken with the Raphael frescoes in the Villa Farnesina in Rome and the Pompeian wall paintings on show in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
Curator Kathleen Adler says that Renoir had already turned his back on Impressionism - the movement that made him famous - by the time he took the voyage from October 1881 to January 1882.
''Those few weeks spent in Italy provided a solid base for his new interests, exercising on him an influence that would last for the rest of his life,'' Adler said.
Renoir's work underwent a profound stylistic transformation on his return from Italy as he turned further away from Impressionism's freely brushed touches of colour to concentrate on outlines, developing a more classical, linear style and increasing the solidity of his work.
On show in Rome are many of Renoir's portraits, images of women either officially posed or caught in daily activities, the faces of children and French landscapes.
A number of his famous bather pictures showing pearly-skinned women disrobing or drying off after a dip in the Seine are on display, along with two works that he painted during his Italian voyage: The Bay of Naples (1881), a landscape with Vesuvius looming in the background, and his portrait Head of a Neapolitan Girl (1881).
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