The history of the French Salon is charming, while the Salon Carre of the Louvre is a room that is SISTEMS the 1st floor of the palace museum, just before entering the Great Galleries

This room Louvreviene open to "exposure" in 1667 and exhibited paintings by artists connected to the Royal Academy. Subsequently it was decided to also expose the works of emerging artists but the works were screened by a committee established specifically to review the "moral" of representations, of course, the "screen" was especially severe and subjective (we are around 1780).
The climate of freedom brought by the French Revolution also enters the salon with the result of free exposure without judging committee, which held out a little air of freedom within the "hard" way of thinking that breathed among the directors of the Louvre.
More and more selective and not inclined to the "new" advanced course (we are around 1850, in impressionist full espolosione)
and shows that reading the chronicles of Salon Funo excluded from almost 3000 works, the same as today we can admire the most prestigious art galleries in the world, of course, these are works of the Impressionists (so named by the French critic Leroy with negative sense refers to the framework Monet's "impression sunrise") at that time for rebellion exhibited in the photo lab of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym of Nadar.
Another gust of freedom within the Louvre in 1890 thanks to the editor of Salon, Monsieur Bouguereau gave you free access to young artists to exhibit their work and said "impressionism comes to the Salon."
This historical parenthesis related to the Salon, and especially the Impressionists who was denied access to the exhibition, is told in the exhibition is hosted at Castel di Rimini Sismondo: Paris. The wonderful years. Salon against Impressionism, from 23 October 2010-27 March 2011.
Ninety works on display from museums and private collections that will make the visitor experience the atmosphere that breathed the "young" Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Gullaumin, Cezanne, Morisot and others, all "young people" excluded from Salon.
The show is technically divided into three sections:
the first time, body and figures
second nature suspended
the third mirror of nature
Opens Exhibition of paintings in Rimini the section discussed by the Committee of the Salon, one starts from "Male Torso" by Ingres to follow with a series of pictures representing "some nudity" morally unacceptable by the judges of the Salon, and closes this series "Toilet" to Bazille.
   

We then move on to the exhibition "Still Life", the curators of the exhibition in Rimini have done a masterful job in this section because they exhibited the paintings "excluded" from the Salon front of the paintings exhibited at the Salon.
   

info e costi
da lunedì a venerdì: ore 9:00 - 19:00
Sabato e domenica: ore 9:00 - 20:00
chiuso 24, 25, 31 dicembre 2010 
1° gennaio 2011: ore 10:00 - 20:00
ingresso € 13,00
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Castel Sigismondo, Via Luigi Poletti, 47923 Rimini