Catalogue of the exhibition at the Cernuschi Museum in Paris from September 2008 to January 2009.
Splendors of Courtesans. Japan, paintings, ukiyo-e from the Idemitsu Museum.
Paris Museums
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| N° d'inventaire | 12193 |
| Format | 21.5 x 27 |
| Détails | 170 p., numerous color plates, paperback in slipcase. |
| Publication | Paris, 2008 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
The ukiyo-e school or "images of the floating world" appeared at the end of the 17th century.
Urban life in the Edo period, Kabuki theatre, the lightness of morals and the pleasure districts were the favourite themes of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Andô Hiroshige (1797-1858), considered today to be among the greatest Japanese painters. Ukiyo-e works enjoyed worldwide success from the end of the 19th century onwards, thanks to prints that were very popular in the West.
The Cernuschi Museum exhibition reveals a little-known aspect of this school by presenting a rare collection of paintings on hanging scrolls (kakemono), screens and horizontal scrolls (emaki) from the collection of the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo.
Urban life in the Edo period, Kabuki theatre, the lightness of morals and the pleasure districts were the favourite themes of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Andô Hiroshige (1797-1858), considered today to be among the greatest Japanese painters. Ukiyo-e works enjoyed worldwide success from the end of the 19th century onwards, thanks to prints that were very popular in the West.
The Cernuschi Museum exhibition reveals a little-known aspect of this school by presenting a rare collection of paintings on hanging scrolls (kakemono), screens and horizontal scrolls (emaki) from the collection of the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo.
Urban life in the Edo period, Kabuki theatre, the lightness of morals and the pleasure districts were the favourite themes of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Andô Hiroshige (1797-1858), considered today to be among the greatest Japanese painters. Ukiyo-e works enjoyed worldwide success from the end of the 19th century onwards, thanks to prints that were very popular in the West.
The Cernuschi Museum exhibition reveals a little-known aspect of this school by presenting a rare collection of paintings on hanging scrolls (kakemono), screens and horizontal scrolls (emaki) from the collection of the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo.