Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Videos

The most private of Pierre Bonnard’s worlds was the bathroom, or “le salle de bain.” Discover the intimate moments that center around “le bain” in this close-looking video with George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell. Plan your visit to see “Bonnard’s Worlds,” on view through January 28: https://kimbellart.org/bonnards-worlds ___ Installation views of “Bonnard’s Worlds.” Videos by Gabe Taylor, Kimbell Art Museum

There are only two weeks left to see “Bonnard’s Worlds”! Through Pierre Bonnard’s paintings—glowing with intense colors and flooded with light—he invites us all into the most fascinating corners of his worlds. Don't miss the chance to see 70 of the artist’s finest paintings reunited in one truly stunning exhibition.“Bonnard’s Worlds” is on view through January 28. Buy tickets today: https://kimbellart.org/bonnards-worlds

Allons au jardin. / Let’s go to the garden. Explore the gardens in Pierre Bonnard’s paintings in this close-looking video with George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell. Plan your visit to see “Bonnard’s Worlds,” on view through January 28: https://kimbellart.org/bonnards-worlds ___ Installation views of “Bonnard’s Worlds.” Videos by Gabe Taylor, Kimbell Art Museum

Meet Marthe, Bonnard’s wife (“la femme de Bonnard”). Delve deeper into Pierre Bonnard’s paintings of his beloved muse in this close-looking video with George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell. Plan your visit to see “Bonnard’s Worlds,” on view through January 28: https://kimbellart.org/bonnards-worlds ___ Installation views of “Bonnard’s Worlds.” Videos by Gabe Taylor, Kimbell Art Museum

À table, everyone! / Come to the table! Feast your eyes on Pierre Bonnard’s paintings of dining room table scenes in this close-looking video with George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell. Plan your visit to see “Bonnard’s Worlds,” on view through January 28: https://kimbellart.org/bonnards-worlds ___ Installation views of “Bonnard’s Worlds.” Videos by Gabe Taylor, Kimbell Art Museum

La fenêtre est ouverte. / The window is open. Gain a deeper understanding of the role windows play in Pierre Bonnard’s paintings in this close-looking video with George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell. Plan your visit to see “Bonnard’s Worlds,” on view through January 28: https://kimbellart.org/bonnards-worlds ___ Installation views of “Bonnard’s Worlds.” Videos by Gabe Taylor, Kimbell Art Museum

Whether you’re visiting the museum with friends, a loved one, or solo, you can find magic in your art-viewing experience. Plan a visit to the Kimbell this holiday season: https://kimbellart.org/visit ___ “Court Lady,” Chinese, first half of the 8th century A.D. Kimbell Art Museum

Êtes-vous plutôt chien ou chat? / Are you a dog person or a cat person? Learn more about the many beloved pets of Pierre Bonnard and how he incorporated them into his paintings from George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell. Plan your visit to see “Bonnard’s Worlds,” on view through January 28: https://kimbellart.org/bonnards-worlds ___ Installation views of “Bonnard’s Worlds.” Videos by Gabe Taylor, Kimbell Art Museum

Magic can be found in the connections a museum visit inspires you to create: to the works of art, to your loved ones, and even to yourself. Plan a visit to the Kimbell this holiday season: https://kimbellart.org/visit ___ Gustave Caillebotte, “On the Pont de l’Europe,” 1876–77. Kimbell Art Museum

You can look, but you can’t sit. ✨ Learn more about this extraordinary throne bench, which includes the sculptors’ signatures, in this close-looking video narrated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. This series of videos is produced in tandem with our current special exhibition, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view through September 3, 2023. Learn more and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods ___ K'in Lakam Chahk and Patlajte' K'awiil Mo[...] (Maya sculptors, active 8th century), “Throne 1,” Piedras Negras, Petén, Guatemala, 785 A.D. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes de Guatemala.

Rare painted vessels like this one provide a glimpse into how the ancient Maya lived and learned. ✏️🤔 Admire the details of an old Maya god teaching young pupils in this close-looking video narrated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. This series of videos is produced in tandem with our current special exhibition, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view through September 3, 2023. Learn more and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods ___ “Codex-Style Vessel with Two Scenes of Itzam Instructing Young Pupils,” Maya, c. A.D. 700–750. Kimbell Art Museum

The Maize God demands constant attention and care, lest he die—who can relate? 😌🌽 Learn more about the characteristics of this youthful Maya god in this close-looking video narrated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. This series of videos is produced in tandem with our current special exhibition, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view through September 3, 2023. Learn more and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods #LivesOfTheGods ___ “Maize God,” Temple 22, Copan, Honduras, 715, limestone. British Museum, London

Happy Bastille Day / Bonne Fête Nationale! 🇫🇷🎉 Our collection features many works of art by French artists, from Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun to Claude Monet. Which French work of art featured at the Kimbell has that certain “je ne sais quoi” for you? Here are a handful of exceptional highlights—let us know your favorite. ❤️ ___ Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “Self-Portrait,” c. 1781; Claude Monet, “Weeping Willow,” 1918–19; Jean-Baptiste Greuze, “La Simplicité (Simplicity),” 1759; Louis (or Antoine?) Le Nain, “Peasant Interior with an Old Flute Player,” c. 1642; Paul Cézanne, “Man in a Blue Smock,” c. 1896–97; Jacques-Louis David, “The Anger of Achilles,” 1819; Louise Moillon, “Still Life with a Bowl of Strawberries, Basket of Cherries, and Branch of Gooseberries,” 1631; Paul Cézanne, “Maison Maria with a View of Château Noir,” c. 1895; Master from the Atelier de Saint-Léger, French, Troyes, “Virgin and Child,” c. 1530–35; Gustave Caillebotte, “On the Pont de l’Europe,” 1876–77; Nicolas Poussin, “The Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter),” c. 1636-40; Pierre Bonnard, “Landscape at Le Cannet,” 1928; François Boucher, “Boreas Abducting Oreithyia”; “Venus at Vulcan’s Forge”; “Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds”; “Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa,” 1769; Georges de La Tour, “The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs,” c. 1630–34

On this elaborate tamale plate, what animals, plants, and deities are depicted above and below the rain god Chahk as well as sprouting from the deity’s head and left hand? 🌿🐆🌽🐊🦅 In Maya art, “codex-style” refers to a type of ceramic vessel or plate on which scenes are painted in very fine monochromatic lines on a cream background. The scenes come from codices, the folding-screen books painted by Maya scribes which depict stories of the life cycles of the gods. Learn more about this work of art in this close-looking video narrated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. This series of videos is produced in tandem with our current special exhibition, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view through September 3, 2023. Learn more and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods ___ "Tripod Plate, Mythological Scene," Guatemala or Mexico, 7th–8th Century, ceramic, slip. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the Mol Collection, 2021

Meet the Jaguar God of the Underworld. 🐆 Learn more about this censer stand in this close-looking video narrated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. This series of videos is produced in tandem with our current special exhibition, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view through September 3, 2023. Learn more and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods #LivesOfTheGods ___ “Censer stand,” Yucatan, Mexico, 7th–8th century, ceramic. Museo de Sitio de Palenque Alberto Ruz L'Huillier, Mexico, Secretaría de Cultura–Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia SECRETARÍA DE CULTURA - INAH- MEX, "Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia"

Here’s a Maya riddle for you: A crocodile, a bird, and a heroic figure appear in a battle scene. Who wins, and who becomes the Sun God? 🐊🦅🌞 Find the answers in this close-looking video narrated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. This series of videos is produced in tandem with our current special exhibition, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view through September 3, 2023. Learn more and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods #LivesOfTheGods ___ “Stela with mythological scene,” Stela 25, Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico, 300 BC–AD 250, stone. Museo Arqueológico del Soconusco, Tapachula, Mexico, Secretaría de Cultura–Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia SECRETARÍA DE CULTURA - INAH- MEX, "Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia"

This monumental carved stela dating to the year 731 greets all visitors entering “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art.” So, who is the figure represented here? 🧐 Learn more about this work of art from this close-looking video narrated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. This series of videos is produced in tandem with our current special exhibition, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view through September 3, 2023. Learn more and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods #LivesOfTheGods ___ Sak[...] Yuk[...] Took’ and Sak [...] Yib'ah Tzak B’ahlam (Maya, active 8th century), “King Yuknoom Took’ K’awiil,” Stela 51, Calakmul, Mexico, 731 A.D., limestone. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Secretaría de Cultura– Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia SECRETARÍA DE CULTURA - INAH- MEX, "Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia"

Watch a time-lapse of the installation of the “King Yuknoom Took’ K’awiil” stela at the Kimbell Art Museum. The stela is an exhibition loan from the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City, Mexico. See this monumental work of art in “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” on view from May 7 to September 3, 2023. Learn more about this exhibition and buy tickets: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods ___ Sak[...] Yuk[...] Took’ and Sak [...] Yib'ah Tzak B’ahlam (Maya, active 8th century), “King Yuknoom Took’ K’awiil,” Stela 51, Calakmul, Mexico, 731 A.D., limestone. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Secretaría de Cultura– Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia SECRETARÍA DE CULTURA - INAH- MEX, "Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia"

Did you know that Gian Cristoforo Romano and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux share a birthday? 🎉 Only 362 years apart, Carpeaux and Romano were born #onthisday in 1827 and 1465! 🎻 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French portraitist who was sought after by many prominent sitters. Among his finest busts is this posthumous portrait of his older brother, Charles, a musician, who died in 1870 after long suffering. The terracotta cast preserves a sense of the artist’s own physical involvement in the material through the textures of the surface, which show the traces of the artist’s fingers and tool marks in the process of forming the bust. By virtue of its exciting, informal surfaces, this portrait is among Carpeaux’s most modern works. 🎀 Gian Cristoforo Romano was one of the leading sculptors of his time and an accomplished courtier, singer, poet, and antiquarian. This rare terracotta portrait bust possibly represents Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua. In much Renaissance female portraiture, including that of Isabella, a faithful likeness was less desirable than an idealized beauty that represented the sitter’s virtue. If indeed the sculpture represents Isabella, it does so in a highly flattering way, presenting an ideal, classicized “likeness” that would have pleased the most discriminating of patrons. ___ Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, “Portrait of Charles Carpeaux, the Sculptor’s Brother,” 1874; Attributed to Gian Cristoforo Romano, “Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Isabella d’Este,” c. 1500. Kimbell Art Museum

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art” opens in one week! 🎉 Explore the spectacular world of the Maya gods. 🐆🌽🌞🌌 Through nearly 100 rarely seen masterpieces ranging from impressive stone stelae to imaginative painted vessels and miniature carvings, this exhibition traces the life stages of deities from birth to their transformations into blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night. Buy tickets and learn more about this upcoming exhibition, opening May 7: https://kimbellart.org/maya-gods