Exposure to Victorian of Rome, curated by Marianne Mathieu, presents about sixty works by one of the most famous artists in the world, Claude Monet, father of Impressionism, coming from the Musée Marmottan Monet testimony of his artistic career, but above all of man. It is indeed the works that Monet kept in his last home in Giverny and that his son Michel donated to the museum.
Sixty masterpieces on display. From the earliest works, the famous caricatures of the late 1950s to the rural and urban landscapes of London, Paris, Vétheuil, Pourville, and portraits of children, from the paintings dedicated to the beloved flowers of his garden (roses, wisteria, agapantha ) up to the disturbing modernity of weeping willows, of the avenue of roses or of the Japanese bridge, to arrive at the monumental Water Lilies and Wisteria, the exhibition will give an account of the many facets of his work, restoring Monet's artistic richness.
In the words of Guy de Maupassant we understand so much about the Monet man: "Last year, in this country, I often followed Claude Monet in search of 'impressions'. He was not a painter, indeed, but a hunter. He went, followed by the children who wore his canvases, five or six canvases depicting the same motif, at different times of the day and with different lighting effects. He took them back and put them away in turn, according to the changes in the sky. And the painter, in front of his subject, waited for the sun and the shadows, fixing with a few brushstrokes the ray that appeared or the passing cloud ... And contemptuous of the false and of the opportune, it rested them on the cloth with speed ".
On display at the Vittoriano, Rome, until 19 October:
Monday to Thursday 9.30am> 7.30pm
Friday and Saturday 9.30am> 10pm
Sunday 9.30am> 8.30pm (the ticket office closes one hour earlier)
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