Last chance to visit the Musée d'Orsay’s 30th anniversary celebration through a display of a range of artworks looking at the Second Empire. The exhibition ends January 15, 2017.Against a background of social unrest, this prosperous era was a time of splendor and of economic euphoria, of ostentation and numerous lavish celebrations that are worth revisiting. Musée d’Orsay is, for the first time, looking at this first society of spectacle and consumerism, a society that we have inherited. The exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, photography, architectural drawings, objets d’art and jewelry in a lavish thematic exhibition based around the great aesthetic and social questions that are just as relevant today: art used in the staging of power, the individual and his/her image, the taste for objects and decoration, society’s latest entertainments and the great artistic events of the Salons and the Universal Exhibitions.The exhibition is on view at the Musée d'Orsay, 1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007 Paris.For details, visit: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay/article/spectaculaire-second-empire-44074.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=254&cHash=53b669201fClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition.
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