This autumn and winter the Glyptotek offers the public a unique opportunity to be drawn into the world of the French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916). “Odilon Redon. Into the Dream” is the first major presentation of Redon’s work in Denmark. The basis of the exhibition is spectacular loans from both public and private collections in Europe and the USA, as well as from The Kröller-Müller Museum in Holland, who have devised the exhibition in collaboration with the Glyptotek. In all, one can experience more than 150 works by the French symbolist, graphic artist and painter. Representing a large part of Redon’s wide-ranging sources of inspiration the exhibition also includes works from the Glyptotek’s own collections which span from French painting, including selected works by Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard and Vincent

For five centuries, the Arenberg family belonged to the highest nobility of the Low Countries. The combination of their power, financial wealth and love for art and culture resulted in a number of collections that are impressive because of their extent as well as their quality. The exhibition ‘Power and Beauty. The Arenbergs’ in M-Museum Leuven brings together more than 230 artworks and documents that were never shown before in a unique reunion that tells the story of the Arenbergs. The exhibition ‘Noble Living. The Castle at Heverlee from Croÿ to Arenberg’ opens its doors at the University Library at the same moment. It tells the remarkable architectural history of the Arenberg Castle in Heverlee by displaying numerous exceptional pieces that were never shown before. The Arenbergs are already part of the highest nobility since the 16th century. The family left their mark on Europe as generals and diplomat

Room C in the Jerónimos Building at the Museo del Prado is hosting the staging of this exhibition, curated by Joan Molina, a lecturer at the Universitat de Girona. The exhibition seeks to pay well-deserved homage to Bartolomé de Cárdenas, alias El Bermejo (1440-1501), one of the most suggestive and attractive painters of the fifteenth century, by presenting his work to the general public. Bermejo’s work exploits the pictorial potential of oil painting techniques, a new development at the time. In this respect, he created a personal realist language, one that focused especially on illusionist effects and on the definition of spectacular ranges of color. His main point of reference consisted of Flemish painting, the school inaugurated by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, which, by the latter half of the fifteenth century, had seduced the whole of Europe, including Italy. Although it has been speculated that Bermejo

Tate Britain presents the largest Edward Burne-Jones retrospective to be held in the UK for a generation. Renowned for otherworldly depictions of beauty inspired by myth, legend and the Bible, Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a pioneer of the symbolist movement and the only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide recognition in his lifetime. This ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition brings together over 150 works in different media including painting, stained glass and tapestry, reasserting him as one of the most influential British artists of the 19th century. Edward Burne-Jones charts his rise from an outsider of British art to one of the great artists of the European fin de siècle. Burne-Jones rejected Victorian industrial ideals, offering an enchanted parallel universe inhabited by beautiful and melancholy beings. The exhibition brings together all the major works from across his four-decade career, depicting Arthurian knights