Dressed in a golden tunic inlaid with silver, Meleager, the Greek hero, challenges a wild boar in a small bronze by L'Antico, master sculptor at the court of Mantua in the 1500s. Not far away, in an intaglio in carnelian forming the heart of an incredible pendant, Jupiter flanked by Mercury and Mars, and bordered by the twelve signs of the Zodiac, sits enthroned on its eagle.
Two more steps, and here is the
Codex Forster III,
one of the rare notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci not to have appeared in the retrospective mounted at the Louvre in 2019 as part of the fifth centenary of the genius' death.
The work opens on two pages of his famous mirror writing.
With also the presence of one of its pulley and weight diagrams…
Place de la Concorde, behind the noble facade of Ange-Jacques Gabriel, spaces have never seemed to have so closely reconnected with their Ancien Régime past, when they housed the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, tiaras and crowns included .
In this Hôtel de la Marine in fact…
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