A few headliners: Laurence Bertrand Dorléac describes the very varied and subtle forms of friendship that artists have established with things over the centuries, "still lifes": the great autumn exhibition at the Louvre.
For his part, Sébastien Allard, director of the paintings, has readily agreed to support two great choreographers whose dancers will take over the Grande Galerie, with the intention of developing their art based on the underlying geometries of the paintings. From November onwards, the Louvre will propose the meeting of unexpected trios, the spectator, the dancer and the work...
Champollion was born in the Louvre...or almost. He was the creator and first curator of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities. The Louvre-Lens pays tribute to him in the form of an exhibition curated by Vincent Rondot. The Louvre has lent his friends in the Hauts de France some exceptional pieces... An opportunity to tell the story of a man with a consuming passion.
At the time of the creation of the Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art, its director, Maximilien Durand, gives us some food for thought on divine representations and the art of showing the human figure in Byzantium before and after the Great Schism...
