Milan, Italy's first exhibition dedicated to Georges de La Tour reopens. Extended until September.

On Thursday, May 28, the exhibition Georges de La Tour: the Europe of Light, held at the Royal Palace in Milan, reopens to the public with new visiting days and hours. The exhibition had been opened last Feb. 7 and closed due to a health emergency; it was then reopened for only one week from March 2 to March 8, and now it will reopen with new arrangements and with restricted entry by reservation only.

Promoted and produced by the City of Milan Culture, Palazzo Reale and MondoMostre Skira, curated by Francesca Cappelletti and Thomas Clement Salomon, the exhibition boasts a scientific committee composed of Pierre Rosenberg (former director of the Louvre), Gail Feigenbaum (director, Getty Research Institute), Annick Lemoine (director, Musée Cognacq-Jay)

The twenty-eight lending museums have agreed to extend the loan of the thirty-three works until September 27, 2020: it will therefore be possible to visit the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to Georges de La Tour for another four months.

Lending museums include the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frick Collection in New York, the S. Francisco Fine Art Museum, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, the National Art Gallery in Lviv, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, the Musée du Mont-du Piété in Bergues, the Musée départemental d’Art ancien et contemporain in Epinal, the Museée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi, the Musée départemental Georges de La Tour in Vic-sur-Seille, the Uffizi, the Pinacoteca Vaticana, and the Galleria nazionale d’Arte Antica-Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

The exhibition focuses on reflection regarding painting from nature and luministic experiments, through comparisons between Georges de La Tour ’s masterpieces and other masters of his time, such as Gerrit van Honthorst, Paulus Bor, and Trophime Bigot: the aim is to address the profound questions that still shroud the work of this great French artist.

Among the masterpieces on display is the Penitent Magdalene from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Brawl between Beggar Musicians from the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Hurdy Gurdy Player with Dog from the Musée du Mont-de-Piété in Bergues, The Money Spilled from the National Gallery of Painting in Lviv (Ukraine), The Dice Players from the Preston Park Museum & Grounds (one of the few paintings by La Tour that are preserved in Britain), The Denial of Peter from the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, Job Mocked by his Wife from the Musée départemental d’Art ancien et contemporain in Epinal, The Young Man Blowing on a Tippet from the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, and TheEducation of the Virgin from the Frick Collection. Also featured among the autograph works are paintings with religious themes, such as St. James the Lesser and St. Jude Thaddeus from the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi; St. Philip from the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk; St. John the Baptist in the Desert from the Musée de La Tour in Vic- sur-Seille, the painter’s hometown; and two Old man and Old woman from the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco.

Enriching the exhibition are some 20 works by coeval artists such as Paulus Bor, Jan Lievens, Throphime Bigot, Frans Hals, Jan van Bijlert, Gerrit Van Honthorst, Adam de Coster, and Carlo Saraceni.

“La Tour’s images are absolutely enthralling,” commented the curator, “they urge us to sharpen our eyesight to discover what lurks in the darkness where candlelight cannot reach; or they are paintings that show us more of what we would like to see-the despair and misery of life, which giantizes near us. Looking at his paintings, the viewer is as involved as the painter in the same enterprise; he cannot look away from the work, until he is captured by its author: this is one of the secrets of his ascendancy.”

To visit the exhibition, reservations are required at Vivaticket (tel. 02 92897755 or on the website https://mondomostreskira.vivaticket.it/) It is also possible to book shortly before the visit, as long as the capacity allowed in each time slot is respected. It is not currently possible to book visits for groups or school groups.

For those who already have reservations, it is necessary to request a voucher at https://shop.vivaticket.com/ita/voucher

The audio guide is included with the ticket in the form of an app that can be downloaded in the Apple and Google stores.

Hours: Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Thursday until 10:30 p.m. Special opening Tuesday, June 2 from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

For info and to see all the new access rules: palazzorealemilano.it
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Image: Georges de La Tour, Education of the Virgin (New York, Frick Collection)

Milan, Italy's first exhibition dedicated to Georges de La Tour reopens. Extended until September.

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