Beyond the Stars.the Stars. The Mystical Landscape from Mont to Kandinsky, Musée d’Orsay

Gauguin, Monet, Klimt, Munch, Van Gogh, O’Keeffe... any one of those names is enough to send shivers down the spine of even the most basic gallery goer — and all of these are represented in this fantastic exhibition.

As if anyone needs an excuse, these specific works have been curated to highlight how the artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries depicated landscapes and religious imagery as a means to access the intangible and explore the divine. Among the -90-odd paintings displayed in seven rooms wait some of the most revered paintings he 90-odd paintings displayed in seven some of the most revered paintings known to man: the dreamy canvases of Monet’s water lilies (1916-1919), Van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888); Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract paintings of cloud formations.

In dimly lit rooms where one can’t help but whisper, these hallowed works hang like stainedglass windows on church walls. One cannot but peer into them and then through, to the reflected parts of your own inner life — the melancholy, the wonder — that they inevitably bring to the fore. ■ Until June 25. Musee-orsay.fr