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What if each era had dictated its taste for art?

2020-04-24T14:40:13.254Z


In "the interviews of the louvre", The historian Francis Haskell shows that the desires change as quickly as the policy.


In these times of confinement and culture, the site of the Louvre Museum is a treasure trove. The series “Les Interviews du Louvre” composes a gallery of magnificent portraits which allows you to spend an hour with Jean Bottéro in Mesopotamia, with Federico Zeri in his villa of connoisseur, or with the angels and demons that the fascinating Jurgis Baltrusaitis discovered.

A film by Renan Pollès invites you to follow Francis Haskell (1928-2000) from Cambridge to Rome and Versailles. In his office, a cave of books and manuscripts, he explains why his passion for history was born during the war: “It sometimes seemed to us that the world was going to disappear forever, every day we could be killed the next day. Even though I was in no serious danger, there were the bombs. The future was uncertain and the present rather unpleasant. We loved the past. ” His genius was to study the works no longer in the workshops and in the minds of the artists, but to question what their

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Source: lefigaro

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