Monet and Venice Opening Day Talk
Claude Monet, Houses of Parliament, Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement, effet de soleil) (detail), 1903. Oil on canvas, overall: 32 x 36 1/4 in. (81.28 x 92.075 cm), bequest of Grace Underwood Barton. Photo: Brooklyn Museum
Join us for the Monet and Venice opening day talk with exhibition co-curator Melissa E. Buron.
Although Claude Monet visited Venice only once, his paintings of the city are among his most dazzling. Monet and Venice, co-organized with the Brooklyn Museum, is the first exhibition dedicated to Monet’s Venetian cityscapes since their debut over a century ago. Featuring more than 100 artworks, the exhibition places Monet’s Venice paintings alongside select works from across his career, including his Water Lilies, as well as Venetian views by artists such as Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto.
Livestream link coming soon.
About the curator
Melissa E. Buron, PhD, is director of collections and chief curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Buron joined the V&A in May 2024 after 16 years at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). While at FAMSF, Buron developed the exhibitions James Tissot: Fashion & Faith (2019–2020) and Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters (2018). Buron holds an MA with distinction in art history from the University of London, Birkbeck College, where she earned her PhD in 2022.
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