A talk on Monet and Venice

Join us for the Monet and Venice opening day talk with exhibition co-curator Melissa E. Buron. Plan your visit today! https://ticketing.famsf.org/events/01... About the exhibition https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/mon... Although Claude Monet visited Venice only once, his paintings of the city are among his most dazzling. This exhibition, co-organized with the Brooklyn Museum, is the first dedicated to Monet’s Venetian cityscapes since their debut over a century ago. Featuring more than 100 artworks, the exhibition places Monet’s Venice paintings alongside select works from across his career, including his Water Lilies, as well as Venetian views by artists such as Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto. Unlike the bustling scenes painted by other artists, Monet’s Venice is eerily deserted, its architecture, buildings, and canals dissolving in an encompassing, hazy light he described as the enveloppe. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience Monet’s vision of the famed Italian city. About the curator Melissa E. Buron, PhD, is director of collections and chief curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Buron joined the V&A in May 2024 after 16 years at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). While at FAMSF, Buron developed the exhibitions James Tissot: Fashion & Faith (2019–2020) and Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters (2018). Buron holds an MA with distinction in art history from the University of London, Birkbeck College, where she earned her PhD in 2022.