Turner, le sublime héritage: En dialogue avec des artistes contemporains./Turner's Sublime Legacy: In Dialogue With Contemporary Artists. Protohistoire When French archaeologists began to

When French archaeologists began to excavate its site in the nineteenth century

the objects in question lent themselves to multi-sensory consumption practices

19th-century explorers and early 20th-century archaeologists were dazzled by this forgotten civilization

it was also 200 years ago

Turner, le sublime héritage: En dialogue avec des artistes contemporains./Turner's Sublime Legacy: In Dialogue With Contemporary Artists. Protohistoire When French archaeologists began toPresenting a collection of leading works, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies is an invitation to a journey through Joseph Mallord William Turner's representations of the sublime in the world, from his landscapes to the elemental explorations of light and atmosphere of which he was a precursor and master. Turner's decisive influence on painting, and by extension his legacy, will be compared with interpretations of the sublime by great