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‘Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment’

Through Jan. 19 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

This year is the 150th birthday of Impressionism, a movement so popular and so familiar that it can seem like some preordained crowd pleaser — all those sunsets and tutus, ready for their blotchy close-ups.

But once, those haystacks were rebellious. Once, those ballet dancers delivered a shock. And the National Gallery, which organized this show with the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, is now showing the first Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir and Degas alongside the shellacked paintings that appeared at the Salon of 1874. Can we rediscover what was so revolutionary about impressionism back in 1874? Can we still see the defiance in its beauty, and even its schmaltz? JASON FARAGO

ImagePietro Lorenzetti’s “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350.” Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times‘Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350’

Through Jan. 26 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan.

The magnificent glow-in-the-dark exhibition called “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” is a visual event of pure 24-karat beauty and a multi-leveled scholarly coup. On both counts, we’ll be lucky if the season brings us anything like its equal.

For centuries when it came to ranking Italian art centers, Florence took the prize, favored as the preserver and purveyor of the vaunted Western Classical tradition of naturalistic curves and spatial depths. Siena, by contrast, favored the so-called Gothic style, decorative, angular, flat. But in the hands of early Sienese artists, what an expressive style it is. And what a complex one.

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