Paris-Athens Birth of modern Greece 1675-1919

In 2021, Greece will celebrate the bicentenary of its independence; it was also 200 years ago, in 1821, that the Venus de Milo entered the Louvre collections. The exhibition traces the cultural, diplomatic and artistic links between Greece and France in the 19th century, highlighting the way in which the European view of Greece was transformed with the rediscovery of Greek antiquity.