The Girodet (pronounced: jeer-o-day) exhibit opened on Feb. 11 and runs to the end of the Month. Its a great exhibit, even if my horific French meant it took me 2 weeks to pronounce the damn name correctly. Any way the exhibit is free (although you have to pay something to get into the museum; however I work 9-5 and can always get people into the museum for free).
So the exhibit is called Girodet; Romantic Rebel. I have to admit I had never heard of Girodet before this exhibit, but his work is wonderful. The library sets up a special exhibit tour for staff with the curator of the exhibit. And her tour was really informative.
Girodet lived in revolutionary/Napoleonic France, he was well educated, and lived for a few years in Rome having won a special prize from the French goverment that paid for his years in Rome. He started off as a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, but eventually moved away from the popular Neo classical style. Anyways his paintings and drawings are unique, and definatly worth a walk through the exhibit. I personally enjoyed this exhibit much more than the big Toulouse Latrec exhibit from the summer. Well here are some links, rememeber if you want free acess, just email me.
The AIC exhibit.
Wikipedia's article on Girodet.
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