Exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum brings together Italian works housed in Picardy and Nord-Pas de Calais
(Artdaily.org)

This year has been marked by a series of exhibitions called ‘Italian Hours, Treasures of Italian Painting in Picardy, 14th–18th centuries’, featuring a selection of 230 paintings from museums and churches in Picardy. Following on from the exhibition of 14th- and early 15th century Italian paintings at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens, of Renaissance works at the Musée Condé in Chantilly, of works from the 17th century at the MUDO-Musée de l’Oise and the Quadrilatère in Beauvais, and from the 18th century at the Musée National du Palais in Compiègne, the Louvre-Lens has organised an exhibition combining the Italian collections from Picardy and those from the Nord-Pas de Calais to mark the creation of the new Hauts-de-France region. The exhibition draws on work that has been carried out since the 1980s