What’s Gustave Moreau doing hanging out with John Currin, Wade Guyton, and Damien Hirst? Moreau, the most inventive old-school artist of nineteenth-century French painting, would likely be baffled by ...

A VISIT to the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris is like stepping into a hothouse of over-abundant, heavily perfumed flowers. An elegant townhouse in Rue de la Rochefoucauld, the museum is Moreau's ...

Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), born in Paris, France, was a Symbolist painter known for his fantastical and mythological subjects. His richly detailed and imaginative works often depicted scenes from ...

Gustave Moreau’s painting of Salomé dancing before Herod is one of those rare episodes in narrative art when subject, style and material come together so seamlessly that two things happen: A viewer is ...

This documentary explores the life and art of Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), the French Symbolist painter celebrated for his visionary style, mythological subjects, and dreamlike imagery. From his early ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1862 the painter Gustave Moreau, then aged 36, wrote at the bottom of a sketch that he was thinking about what ...

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), the leading French Symbolist painter, was also a professor at Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. He taught many well-known artists but he was particularly enamored with Georges ...

The French symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) has never regained the “cult status” that he had in his lifetime, said Maev Kennedy in The Art Newspaper. His work is rarely exhibited today, ...

The image is of a pensive king sitting on an ornate throne, flanked by two equally ornate columns, an angel at his feet. It is framed in a heavy wooden frame. The frame is original to the piece, says ...

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), which includes the de Young and the Legion of Honor, has received a gift of 1,600 works from local collector Kirk Edward Long. The playtext is inscribed ...