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(0)Juliette Garcias
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Does the decline of the darkroom mean the end of "real" photography? This program profiles contemporary artists who use a variety of methods to create photographs, from the analog-only lomographers to those who employ the computer as a camera. Adaptation of traditional techniques is seen in works by Frederic Lebain, who prefers an old Instamatic; Vera Lutter, who built a room-sized camera obscura; and in Christian Marclay's homage to 19th-century...
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I am at the dawning of a new world," wrote Nicéphore Niépce in 1827 after he used a camera obscura to fix the scene outside his window onto a metal plate, thus creating the world's first surviving photograph. "View from the Window at Le Gras" far surpassed earlier attempts to capture images using methods that only managed to reproduce outlines and shadows. This program traces the early history of photography, from Renaissance dabblings with the...
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Some art scholars would see it as a kind of Holy Grail experience - an invitation from the Louvre to come and scrutinize works by Leonardo, including the Mona Lisa, La Belle Ferronnière (also referred to as Portrait of an Unknown Woman) and Saint John the Baptist . This film observes just such a gathering, made up of some of the world's leading experts on the life and career of the great Renaissance figure. The guests are given access to major works...
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Following his move to Rome, Raphael soon cornered the market in Vatican commissions-but the frescoes and tapestries that display his gifts on a grand scale are not his only legacy. Portraits focusing on intimate relationships are among Raphael's finest creations. Inviting some of the world's leading art experts to scrutinize its Raphael collection, the Louvre allowed them to come into close contact with The Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, the...
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The artist who created the fete galante painting style achieved wide recognition during his lifetime, and yet virtually all of Antoine Watteau's major works are cloaked in mystery, raising unanswered questions as to their origins, provenances, and meanings. Should his Pilgrimage to Cythera be interpreted as an arrival or a departure? Why, and for whom, was the no less innovative Pierrot (or Gilles) brought into being? Is the air of melancholy that...
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A staggering number of paintings were once thought to be Rembrandts, but of the 800 or so works attributed to the Dutch master during the 19th century, only about 300 remain authenticated. Interestingly, the 1800s were also a period in which France dominated Rembrandt collecting and research. In the 20th century, expertise shifted to Holland, Great Britain, and the U.S., leaving French holdings isolated and neglected for a time. The Louvre, however,...