One would like to believe oneself immersed in one of these delicious still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age.
Of the kind of ceremonial ones, with rare and precious objects, designed by the baroque Pieter Claesz.
Except that here, in Paris, at the Musée du Luxembourg, the Chinese vases, Ottoman sabers, elephant tusk olifants, Indian caskets, nautiluses and other engraved and set Seychelles nuts, which from the 16th to the 18th century, were collected by the prince-electors of Saxony - all emanating from the museums of Dresden, heirs to their cabinets of curiosities -, all these marvels, therefore, are presented with a thousand apologies.
Postcolonial repentance is indeed in full swing.
Both in the cartels of the rooms and in the catalog written by German curators paralyzed by the recent decision of the Berlin neighbor, the Humboldt Forum, to definitively send pieces from its fund, which to Namibia, which to Nigeria.
And, even more, it can be read in the exhibition newspaper distributed...
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