Museum Guides

For several years now, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille has been completely reorganising its rooms and its itinerary in order to offer its 300,000 annual visitors a renewed museographic and educational approach.
A new tool to help visitors understand this very rich collection and dive into its key works, from Antiquity to the present day, had therefore become essential.
Under the lively pen of Vincent Brocvielle, author of the collection "Pourquoi c'est connu?", the Palais des Beaux-Arts comes alive: some 100 masterpieces are presented step by step and set against the socio-cultural context of their time. The reader, constantly challenged by the direct and deliberately offbeat tone of the author, who never ceases to raise new questions and open up new avenues, can pick and choose as he or she wishes and build up his or her own tour.
This new guide, with a focus on the life of the palace, reveals the mysteries of prestigious works by Donatello, Dürer, Bosch, Raphael, Veronese, Greco, Rubens, Van Dyck, David, Goya, Ingres, Marc Chagall, and, closer to home, Maria Héléna Vieira da Silva or Martin Barré.

160 pages / 100 illustrations

Éditions Rmn - Grand Palais