Abstract
[The Toulouse – Lautrec Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts at Ara Pacis, Rome, December 2015].Taking 170 works from the Museum of Arts in Budapest, Ara Pacis in Rome has produced a majo...
Highlights
Taking 170 works from the Museum of Arts in Budapest, Ara Pacis in Rome has produced a major exhibition on the painter-bohemian Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, of the late nineteenth century
Toulouse-Lautrec’s short stature and brittle bones are tempting fare for artists and scientists alike, but have medical historians ever really solved the mystery of what ailed the diminutive painter? Posthumous diagnoses have run from achondroplasia and other forms of dwarfism, to a combination of bad luck and syphilis
Pycnodysostosis’s hallmark symptoms – virtually every one of which was displayed by Toulouse-Lautrec – include short stature, fragile bones, large skull, short distal phalanges, dental issues, a distinctive set of facial features including a weak chin and hooked nose, as well as open fontanelles of the sort that might be hidden under a bowler hat
Summary
Taking 170 works from the Museum of Arts in Budapest, Ara Pacis in Rome has produced a major exhibition on the painter-bohemian Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, of the late nineteenth century It traces the artist’s life, and his rather premature death at only 36 years of age. The five sections of the exhibition cover the interests of the artist: the Parisian nightlife, with brothels and theaters of Montmartre; the actresses in vogue at the time, the famous can-can dancer La Gouloue, the horse races at Longchamp and new inventions. The peculiarity of his art, unlike his contemporaries, is his using as a subject people, the proletariat and their entertainment. They earned him commissions for advertising, posters for plays, ballets and shows, as well as illustrations for magazines
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