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Several notable exhibitions opening in Europe this October turn to the old masters to reexamine, each in its own way, the artist's role in society, both yesterday and today.
In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust described Andrea Mantegna as painting skies of "an almost Parisian modernity." In a similar vein, the Musee du Louvre's retrospective Mantegna (1431-1506), the first ever in France, pays tribute to the Venetian born artist and Mantua court painter as an honorary Frenchman. This enormous show of paintings, prints, manuscripts, sculpture, and objects d'art, which includes loans from around the globe--notably The Triumphs of Caesar, which rarely ...