{"id":118514,"date":"2023-08-23T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test2023.luxus-plus.com\/luxus-magazine-sarah-bernhardt-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T09:06:45","slug":"luxus-magazine-sarah-bernhardt-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/luxus-magazine-sarah-bernhardt-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus Magazine] Sarah Bernhardt exhibition: the Divine was known across the seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>A veritable global muse of the Belle Epoque, everyone wanted to see, approach or even touch this &#8220;sacred monster&#8221;, against whom no stage &#8211; classic theaters or 5,000-seat circus tents &#8211; could resist.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As talented as she was gifted with the fiery temperament of her &#8220;devil&#8217;s hair&#8221;, Sarah Bernhardt was as famous in France as she was on five continents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This extraordinary reputation foreshadowed that of the global superstars who would follow her in the footsteps of Josephine Baker and, closer to home, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Beyonc\u00e9 and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition at the Petit Palais, in honor of the centenary of his death, closes this August 27. It&#8217;s an opportunity to get up close to 400 works and objects that belonged to this polymath artist, who was also an actress, painter, writer and sculptor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A play of fate<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Bernardt&#8217;s life is very much like Cinderella&#8217;s, or <strong><em>From Rags to Riches<\/em><\/strong> as the Americans call it: born into a miserable home, only to die in a blaze of glory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing predestined this <strong>courtesan&#8217;s daughter<\/strong> &#8211; who worked in a brothel &#8211; to take to the stage and become the &#8220;Divine&#8221; Sarah.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But fate had a hand in it, and her only experience of tragedy was on stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109891\" style=\"width: 838px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109891\" src=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sarah-bernhardt-stage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"647\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/sarah-bernhardt-exhibition-the-divine-was-known-across-the-seas\/?lang=en\">here<\/a> for the full article on Luxus Plus Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo : \u00a9 Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veritable global muse of the Belle Epoque, everyone wanted to see, approach or even touch this &#8220;sacred monster&#8221;, against whom no stage &#8211; classic theaters or 5,000-seat circus tents &#8211; could resist. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":117919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"[Luxus Magazine] YourArt: the new Youtube for art Luxus Plus -","_seopress_titles_desc":"To mark the centenary of her death, the Petit Palais is staging an exhibition paying tribute to Sarah Bernhardt, the world&#039;s first superstar.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22488,1],"tags":[22907,22432,22979],"class_list":["post-118514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-en","category-luxus-fr","tag-culture","tag-exhibitions","tag-patrimony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}