Musée du Louvre - Aile Sully
20 February 2014
29 May 2014
Exhibition Finished
Ceiling decoration underwent a profound transformation in the 17th century. The shift from flat ceilings to vaulted ones inspired artists to develop innovative treatments that played with compartmentalizing space, alternating layers of illusion, and organizing narrative, ornamental and emblematic registers.
Through 80 drawings and prints from the museum's holdings and several Parisian collections, the exhibition...