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from 22/08/2022 to 24/08/2022Festival, Talk« Four Englishmen visiting Napoleon on Elba, 1814 », by Peter HicksFestival presentation “The last love, an English witness who sheds new light on Napoleon on St Helena and the cinema on the Napoleonic epic” (“L’ultimo amore, un testimone inglese che getta nuova luce su Napoleone a Sant’Elena e il cinema sull’epica napoleonica) will be the theme of the “Tre serate con Napoleone” 2022. These events […]
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from 08/08/2022 to 30/12/2023ExhibitionCastlereagh: Life & LegacyRobert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, who ended his own life in 1822 at hte age of 53, was an enormously influential and divisive figure, hated in both Ireland and Britain. A highlight of the exhibition is a silver inkstand which remained within the family until it was sold in 2019 to the National Trust. It was presented by […]
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from 09/03/2022 to 28/08/2022Exhibition, Guided TourRosa Bonheur: The Museum of missing worksThroughout her life, Rosa Bonheur kept almost all of her sketches, thus constituting a kind of “database”. These private creations – drawings, oils, watercolours, pastels, caricatures, comic strips – were sometimes notes that she took at random from her travels, sometimes preparatory studies for a particular painting, or even illustrations of great myths. She always […]
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from 26/06/2020 to 31/12/2022ExhibitionMiniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey CollectionThis exhibition showcases a total of 150 works from the time of Napoleon I (from 1795 to 1815). These tiny portraits, which were generally intended for personal use, date from the “golden age” of miniature painting. They exhibit a high degree of artistic skill and refined craftsmanship. Unlike the staged, theatrical portraits of absolutism, now […]