フィラデルフィア美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (フィラデルフィア美術館Instagram)「Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “The Great Bathers” is widely acknowledged to be one of the most significant paintings of the artist’s career. Also one of his largest canvases, it presents an unconventional combination of a loose, #Impressionist-style landscape contrasted with incisively drawn, smoothly modeled figures that recall earlier artistic traditions. Before beginning this work, #Renoir claimed that with it he would “beat Raphael,” clearly intending to secure his place within the history of art. To live up to his boast, Renoir created more than twenty preparatory drawings, and worked and re-worked the canvas over the course of three years, taking longer to create this painting than he did any other. When completed in 1887, he declared it “my master work.” • In advance of the centennial of Renoir’s death in 2019 and the opening of "The #ImpressionistsEye," "The Great Bathers" was the subject of intensive study in order to shed new light on its unusually complex and extended process of creation, and how it reflected the importance Renoir placed upon this painting. We also gathered information on Renoir’s materials and techniques to better understand how the artist’s choices and the effects of time have altered the painting’s appearance. • Follow along as we reveal new insights from the process of researching, analyzing, and conserving Renoir’s “The Great Bathers,” now on view in "The Impressionist’s Eye." #RenoirConservation #MuseumWeek #SecretsMW • “The Great Bathers,” 1884–87, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Detail image is a photomicrograph of the paint surface, showing re-working of layers of paint visible within an open crack, at 200x magnification. • This conservation project and exhibition are supported by Bank of America.」5月14日 23時27分