Peintures grecques antiques, la collection hellénistique du musée du Louvre. Histoire Milestones

Milestones

the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

sometimes very complex

is presented for the first time: a monumental installation made from a thirty-meter-long acacia trunk

Peintures grecques antiques, la collection hellénistique du musée du Louvre. Histoire MilestonesThe Louvre houses a valuable collection of painted works, on marble or limestone, from the Hellenistic period. Coming from Alexandria, Cyrene, Thessaly, and Macedonia, they demonstrate a surprising unity of style. Some have been magnificently restored, and they inform us about the rules of composition as well as pigments and chromatic techniques. This unexpected and moving collection is expertly annotated in this book catalogue.