National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"Corot: Souvenirs et Variations" Exhibition
The 19th century French painter Camille Corot (1796-1875) created numerous lyric landscape and figural paintings, and today his oeuvre continues to fascinate artists and art aficionados throughout the (...)
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"La Venere di Urbino: The Lineage of the Goddess of Beauty from Antiquity to the Renaissance" Exhibition
This exhibition displays various works on the theme of the goddess Venus, dating from antiquity through the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. The exhibition, with its selection of approximately 70 paintings, (...)
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"Edvard Munch - The Decorative Projects" Exhibition
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is well known for his series titled "The Frieze of Life", in which he explored themes of love, death, anxiety, and despair. Among other themes that he dealt with, the "decorative" (...)
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Prayers of the Middle Age, Romanesque Art Photography Exhibition
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"Art from Parma, Italy, Another Capital" Exhibition
This exhibition introduces the art of the 16th and 17th centuries from Parma, located in Northern Italy. This period covers a wide range of art historical eras that flourished in Parma, from the Renaissance, (...)
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Exhibition
This exhibition presents approximately 70 oil paintings from the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels. Their collections consists of approximately 20,000 works, including paintings, (...)
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Fun with Collection 2006
This exhibition, which takes "glasses" as its theme, began in 2005 after two years of planning. During Part 1, which was entitled "The variety of glasses: tell us about your way of looking at them" a number (...)
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Auguste Rodin and Eugène Carrière Exhibition
This exhibition of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), known as the father of modern sculpture, and Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), known as the painter who taught Matisse and Derain, uses the interchange between (...)
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"Prints from the Italian Renaissance" Exhibition
The Renaissance period is one of the highlights of Western art history, with many well-known paintings, sculptures, works of architecture and drawings coming from that time. Some may not be aware that (...)
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Chiaroscuro
Multi-colored woodblock prints in the Renaissance and Baroque. In the beginning of the 16th Century, when printing technologies were expanding quickly, a new technique of woodblock printing was invented (...)
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Dresden: Mirror of the World - The State Art Collections
Collections from the Dresden Royal Art Museum are on display. In the 17th and 18th century, Dresden became the stage of a cultural exchange that connected the east world and the European world when the (...)
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Georges de La Tour: World of Light and Shadow
In 2003, the NMWA purchased “St. Thomas” by Georges de La Tour (1593-1652). To introduce this new acquisition to the general public, the NMWA presents “Georges de La Tour: World of Light and Shadow”, (...)
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Max Klinger: "Eve and the Future", "A Life", "A Love"
Max Klinger (1857-1920) was a multi-faceted artist in turn-of-the-century Germany. Though he also worked on paintings and sculptures, it was his printmaking in particular which elevated him to fame. (...)
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Henri Matisse: Process/Variation
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is recognized as one of the revolutionary painters of the 20th century who opened up new potential in painterly expression. The beauty of colors and the decorativeness of his (...)
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Dutch Mannerist Prints
The word "maniérisme" is thought to have originated from the word "maniera" ("manner" in Italian). Based on renaissance expression, works in the maniérisme style are known for their emphasis on intricate (...)





