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In a design by Jean Michel Wilmotte, «Do not forget me» is the first major exhibition in the Netherlands dedicated to Renaissance portraits in Western Europe.
Over a hundred masterpieces by the greatest painters, Holbein, Dürer, Memling and Veronese show powerful emperors, flamboyant aristocrats and wealthy citizens in their best light in order to survive beyond their allotted time on earth.
Indeed, since antiquity, the portrait has made it possible to keep a living image beyond absence in order to preserve the memory of a being over time.
Titian, Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese, 1541–1542 Washington, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection
