The music of our history, revisited in new exhibit
Almost 400 items – some never seen before - are featured in a collaboration between the CaixaFòrum and the Louvre, with loans from as far as New York, Mexico and Athens
Almost 400 items – some never seen before - are featured in a collaboration between the CaixaFòrum and the Louvre, with loans from as far as New York, Mexico and Athens
The exhibition 'Drawing Versailles. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690)', from the Paris Louvre Museum's collection, will be displayed in Barcelona’s CaixaForum until the 14th of February. The exhibition shows the preliminary cartoons and sketches that painter Charles Le Brun did for the Staircase of the Ambassadors and the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. The drawings include studies of characters, allegorical figures, trophies and animals that formed part of the artist’s compositions, conceived as a great symbolic jigsaw puzzle. The Louvre Museum has 300 of these drawings and 78 of them will now be displayed in Barcelona's CaixaForum. The exhibition is the fruit of an agreement reached in 2009 between the two institutions through which many exhibitions from the Louvre can be shown in the Catalan capital.