Chefs-d’œuvre de la Renaissance du musée du Louvre

This exhibition, curated by a French-Japanese team, aims to explore certain characteristic aspects of the rich complexity of Renaissance art that flourished in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Through some fifty works drawn from four departments of the Musée du Louvre (Paintings, Sculptures, Objets d'art and Prints and Drawings), it seeks to show artistic production across the European centres under four major themes: travel, whether within or beyond Europe; technical innovations and refinements such as prints, maiolica or painted enamel; the view of Antiquity, from the copying of ancient models to their surpassing; and, finally, the flowering of portraiture in connection with a new perspective on the individual.