The Louvre is a dangerous place. ”
Romane Bohringer warns us from the credits of the podcast series to which she lends her voice.
“Les Enquêtes du Louvre”, produced by the museum and directed by Martin Quenehen, mixes art and crime in the style of the story of Belphégor or the
Da Vinci Code
.
Some of the greatest masterpieces from each department reveal their dark side in these 25-minute audio chips topped with techno music and anxiety-provoking sound effects.
Assassinations or thefts have often crossed their fate.
Sometimes even, monumental winged bulls of Khorsabad with the diamond the Regent, passing by
The Cheater with the ace of diamonds
, painting by the Caravaggio Georges de La Tour, or the Pyxid of al-Mughira, a marvel of the arts of Andalusian Islam, this violence presided over their creation.
Curators and historians bring their enlightenment.
But also various commentators, who offer a judiciously offbeat look at the history of classical art.
So a captain of
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