THE ART OF SEING
New venue for our conferences:
This year, Luxembourg Accueil’s conferences will be held at Cercle Cité, in the heart of Luxembourg City. We look forward to welcoming you there throughout the season, in the prestigious setting of its Conference Centre.
📍 Cercle Cité – Conference Centre
Entrance: 2, rue Genistre, L-1623 Luxembourg
🤔 At a glance
For this new season, Amicie de Villenfagne invites you to step inside the world of art.
“Through a selection of five iconic works, we’ll take the time to train our eye and learn how to truly look at a work of art. Each talk will focus on one piece, explored in depth from every angle. Together, we’ll place it in its historical context, uncover its technical and stylistic features, consider its impact on the history of art, and delve into the artist’s creative process.”
📅 Dates
A serie of 5 Art Talks
Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:30 am
📅 1 October – Cycladic Idols, 3rd Millennium BC
Among the earliest masterpieces of Greek sculpture, these striking figures emerged from a civilisation that still remains largely mysterious to us.
📅 12 November – The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 15th Century
This famous double portrait of a couple in their room is an iconic masterpiece of the Northern Renaissance – but above all, a fascinating work filled with symbols, clues and hidden meanings.
📅 7 January – Louis XV’s Desk by J.-F. Oeben and J.-H. Riesener, 18th Century
This magnificent roll-top desk is one of the most celebrated masterpieces in the history of French furniture.
📅 18 March – Olympia, Édouard Manet, 19th Century
Today, we all recognise this famous female nude. Yet when it was first exhibited, Manet’s painting caused a sensational scandal.
📅 13 May – Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 20th Century
With this iconic ready-made sculpture, Duchamp challenged the art world and invited us to rethink a fundamental question: what makes something a work of art?
📍Meeting point
At Cercle Cité, auditorium Henri Beck