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Here is the highlight of the show.
Archivist Thomas Fouilleron presses the switch, which protrudes from a hole in the ceiling.
The skylight reveals colors: forest green, lemon yellow, brick red.
Then a woman squatting, a basket of fruit on her head.
From his nubile body come the legs of a goat, those of a satyress.
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This Renaissance fresco is remarkably well preserved
", is surprised the historian.
True: the bacchante does not look her age… Like a coat, the false ceiling has protected our beautiful stranger for years.
It will be "deposited" to finally give it the light it deserves.
For nearly ten years, the Prince's Palace of Monaco has unknowingly embarked on an ambitious archaeological project.
It all started in 2013. During repairs to the main courtyard, painters noted an incongruity in the vaults of the Galerie d'Hercule.
By scratching the paintings of the 19th century, they come across a strange bestiary.
Cherubs, fauns…
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