Among the two hundred events of the current France-Portugal cultural season, lovers of ancient treasures are not left out in Paris.
On the first floor of the Hôtel de la Marine, for example, in one of the four spaces of the gallery granted for twenty years to house the al-Thani collection, space has been made for a selection of marvels from the Gulbenkian Foundation.
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These 90 works and art objects, eclectic but of the most refined, come from the eponymous museum of Lisbon, a place opened in 1969 in the heart of the park of Santa Gertrudes.
He keeps all of what Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1869-1955), one of the greatest fortunes of the early 20th century, collected.
That is 6,000 insignia pieces of art covering all centuries, schools and countries, from east to west of the Eurasian continent.
From the portraits of Saint Catherine and Saint Joseph painted in the 15th century by Rogier Van der Weyden, to the sculpted Diana by Houdon, via venerable Koranic parchments,…
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