- At the crossroads of science and art, this catalogue compares the
main milestones of scientific discoveries with their parallels in the
collective imagination- Featuring 300 works which testify on the
influence of scientific discoveries on the imagination and art of the
19th century- Accompanies an exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris:
December 2020 - May 2021. The exhibition has been organized with the
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, which will take place from June -
27 September 2021The 19th century saw an unprecedented development of
the natural sciences. Darwinian theory questions the origins of man, his
place in Nature, his links with animals and his own animality in a world
now understood as an ecosystem. This upheaval in the sciences, as well
as the public debates throughout the century, deeply influenced the
artists. The Musée d'Orsay and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal are
devoting an exhibition to the intersection of science and the arts for
the first time, in partnership with the National Museum of Natural
History in Paris, which will retrace the themes of this questioning and
will confront the main milestones of scientific discoveries with their
parallel in the art.
