Your guide? Alex Benvenuto, a lecturer at the University of Nice and author of a dozen books.
Based on his work “Landscape Painters of the Côte d’Azur in the 19th Century” published by Editions SERRE, Alex Benvenuto will take you on a journey of colors and light from a period that witnessed the emergence of winter tourism on the Côte d’Azur.
In addition to watercolors of the Promenade des Anglais, the port, the roadsteads of Cannes or Villefranche, you will discover the little stories of their painters: renowned painters who have today become street names.
Yes, indeed! Trachel, Carlone, Besset, Fossat, Barbéri, Mossa, Fricero wielded their brushes and palette of colors, which allows us, through their paintings, to have “precious testimonies of the Côte d’Azur of yesteryear. The landscape is, strictly speaking, a state of mind, not only a mirror, but also the soul itself,” writes Alex Benvenuto.
