You cannot go wrong with a visit to Musee Jacquemarte-Andre. The permanent collection and tour of the mansion is well worth the trip. The small restaurant is also a nice stop along the way. Best of all - it is open on New Years Day when most of the city sleeps.
This year the exhibition is Perugino, Master of Raphael. Considered by his contemporaries as one of the greatest
painters in Italy, Perugino (1450-1523) pioneered a new style of painting
during the last decades of the 15th century and the first two of 16th century,
which profoundly influenced the period. Pietro Perugino was the leader of an
international artistic style which would spread throughout the rest of Europe
thanks to the young Raphael (1483-1520), one of Perugino's students, whose
works met with great success.
In this regard, the exhibition of some sixty paintings will
establish a direct link between Perugino's and Raphael's works in relation to
two main foci – landscape and portrait – to underline the stylistic continuity
that developed between master and student. This will show how Pietro Perugino
created and perfected an artistic language which the young Raphael then
sensitively made his own, brining it to a much wider audience.
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