Le décor impressionniste. Aux sources des nymphéas. Arts associated with the gladiatorial combats

associated with the gladiatorial combats and hunts that represented the traditional program of the munera

they provide the reader with a key tool in understanding housing forms

all driven by the same quest for truth

as well as the feeling of having witnessed a vast charade

Le décor impressionniste. Aux sources des nymphéas. Arts associated with the gladiatorial combatsHoused in the Orangerie, Monet's Water Lilies cycle was celebrated as the "Sistine Chapel of Impressionism"; Monet himself had described these paintings as "Great Decorations." Going back to the sources of this masterpiece, this catalog explores for the first time an essential dimension of Impressionism. From the end of the 1860s, the links between Impressionist painters and decoration were varied, fruitful, and central. Monet, but also Caillebotte,