Paris, March 2nd 2022 – #BINUSINPARIS we also visited Moyen Âge Renaissance gallery at Musée des Arts Décoratifs where it exhibits eight different sections of Renaissance era. 

La galerie des retables (The Altarpiece Gallery)
Le gothique international (International Gothic)
Une chambre à coucher à la fin du XVe siècle (A bedroom from the late fifteenth century)
Les frises de Vélez Blanco (Friezes from the castle of Vélez Blanco)
La première Renaissance Italienne (The Early Italian Renaissance)
Les arts du feu XIIIe au XVle siècle (Ceramics, glass, and enamels from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century)
L’intarsia (Intarsia)
La seconde Renaissance (The late Renaissance) 

Quoted from the museum’s website, it hosts a collection of European tapestries from 1400 to 1600. The first room displays altarpiece figures and individual statues by Late Gothic artists making the space looks like church. Then off to the other side, sculptures and paintings are displayed illustrating the medieval art, from the 13th century Italian primitives, courtly style of the fourteenth, to the individual cult statues.

Coming to the room of the Early Italian Renaissance, we saw works by the Italian masters like the Master of the Holden Tondo and Antonio da Pavia. The room features portraits of young men and women of the era and the Italian chests or cassoni is also presented there.

A selection of ceramics, glassware, gold and silverware, and decorative bronzes was presented in display cases on an alley. Like mentioned in the museum’s website, the displayed glasses are meant to represent the production and innovations of the late fifteenth and sixteenth.

On the next small room, walls are decorated with panels inlaid with different wood species and were made in the Italian ‘intarsia’ tradition. It felt like we were in an history book. Fashion of the era emerges throughout the portraits, portraying the styles in the second half of the fifteenth. Portraits of Jacques de Brouillard, Mary of Burgundy and Emperor of Maximilian of Austria are presented. 

Reaching the end of the gallery, we found a section of furniture items evoking the wealthy homes of the Italian Renaissance. Terminal figures and mirrors, seats, dressers carved with sphinxes, and an armoire à deux corps are showcased.

See more on: https://madparis.fr/itinerary-1646