Medici Concerts 2018 – Meet the Great Pianists of the World
Elegant Impressionist Maurice Ravel said ‘my ambition is to say with notes what a poet expresses with words’, setting the tone for the Medici Concert experience
Jean Antoine Watteau
Getty Museum Gains Master Works – Renaissance, Rococo & More
The J. Paul Getty Museum has new acquisitions from Renaissance to Rococo and beyond, including a lost painting La Surprise by French artist Jean Antoine Watteau
Watteau: Military Life in Eighteenth Century France at Frick
Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France is an exhibition on show at The Frick Collection, New York, July 12 – October 2, 2016
Arabesque & Grotesque – Ornamentation with Grace & Delicacy
In the early 18th century arabesque and grotesque designs by Berain, Huet, Audran & Watteau were desirable forms of decorative art used in intimate interiors