What a lot of new exhibitions this October! We list well over 20 across Europe below -- many more than usual -- and have still had to leave out quite a few that we'd mention in most other months in order to keep this post to a reasonable length. Let's start at the Royal Academy in London with deep blue seas, cloudless skies, intense light and the heat of the sun. From October 2 to January 31, you can experience the excitement Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and many others felt while Painting the French Riviera . The exhibition features more than 160 exhibits from the 1870s to the 1960s, and a version of the show travels on to the Cleveland Museum of Art in March. Hmm, Renoir. Now perhaps seen as the most chocolate-boxy of the Impressionists, but without doubt the creator of some of the most recognisable images in French art of the late 19th century. Well worth stealing , and clearly the National Gallery is on to a winner with its Renoir and Love ex...
This year marks the centenary of the deaths of both Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele , and Vienna has been celebrating both with exhibitions. Now, it's London's turn to get in on the act, and drawings from one of the Austrian capital's great museums, the Albertina, are heading to the Royal Academy. Klimt/Schiele starts November 4 and runs through to February 3. At the National Gallery, there's a show devoted to one of the great portraitists of the Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Lotto , known for his rich symbolism and psychological depth. This free exhibition is on from November 5 to February 10. Another free display at the National, starting November 29, centres on Edwin Landseer's Monarch of the Glen , that most romantic emblem of the Scottish Highlands (or a dreadful piece of Victorian kitsch?), which was bought for the nation from drinks giant Diageo last year. Other Landseer works and Peter Blake's version of the Monarch are also on show until February ...