The cleaning of the venerable Pallas de Velletri is completed.
This marble statue of Thasos, rival of the Venus du Milo installed in the Louvre opposite her, in the spaces of the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, had become dusty since its previous restoration in 1992. Here it is. turned to a crystalline white, sparkling again.
If we observe him attentively we can even guess some traces of a red perhaps original on his eyelids and his full lips ...
Care was provided on site for five weeks;
before, then immediately after confinement.
Anne Liégey and Nathalie Bruhière, two specialists who had previously worked on the Winged Victory of Samothrace, showed as much thoroughness as patience.
They pampered even the inside of the folds of the himation, the underside of the coils of snakes and the visor of the helmet, removing, under the directives of Ludovic Laugier, conservative at the department, the modern plaster which
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