The Louvre is dedicating a major exhibition to the Carracci drawings, reconstructing the creative process that led to the creation of the famous Galleria Farnese in Rome, frescoed by Annibale Carracci with the collaboration of his brother Agostino and their circle of students. Through a selection of sketches, studies, and preparatory cartoons of exceptional quality, the exhibition offers the opportunity to observe the creation of one of the absolute masterpieces of Baroque painting. Installed in the Mezzanine Napoléon room, the exhibition leads the visitor into the artist's studio, revealing the evolution of the project from the first sketch to the final composition. The drawings trace the journey from the rapidity of the initial stroke to anatomical studies and posing tests, up to the full-scale cartoons that anticipate the frescoes on the vault and in the Camerino. The exhibition testifies to the complexity of a collective process, in which drawing becomes a tool for invention, technical coordination, and dialogue with the client. The exhibition portrays an ambitious and self-aware Annibale Carracci, capable of blending Renaissance teachings with a new narrative energy. At thirty-four, the painter led a monumental undertaking that would shape the evolution of European decoration for over two centuries. The relationship between idea and form, between project and fresco, demonstrates the strength of a conception of art as an intellectual and collective endeavor, which finds its first and purest expression in drawing.
At the Grand Palais in Paris, from March 24 to August 2, 2026, a major retrospective explores the final Matisse. More than two hundred works show how illness and immobility turned into creative energy. The cut-outs emerge as his silent revolution, redefining the relationship between color, form, and space.
A major retrospective in Paris brings Philip Guston back into focus, the artist who left abstraction behind to confront the political and social traumas of the 1970s through irony and grotesque imagery. His satirical drawings and figurative paintings reveal the courage to turn painting into a tool of critique and resistance.
The Musée d’Orsay presents Point de départ, an exhibition devoted to Bridget Riley that explores the origins of her visual language. The influence of Georges Seurat and the birth of Op Art are placed in dialogue through works and preparatory studies.
The Pompidou's Drawing Collection lives again at the Grand Palais
A vast collection of drawings from the Centre Pompidou reveals the metamorphosis of a boundless medium. From December 16th at the Grand Palais, Drawings Without Limits explores the freedom of modern and contemporary drawing.
