Ceci n'est pas qu'un tableau. Essai sur l'art, la domination, la magie et le sacré. Antique sketches and drawings

sketches and drawings

Kleine ägyptische Texte 14

the relationship that these sepulchres had with their rural environment

and proscriptions

Ceci n'est pas qu'un tableau. Essai sur l'art, la domination, la magie et le sacré. Antique sketches and drawingsIn 1657, Nicolas Poussin painted a Flight into Egypt with a Reclining Traveler. The canvas then disappeared for several centuries. In the 1980s, different versions of the painting reappeared, great experts clashed, analysis laboratories and courts got involved, and many wanted to authenticate and appropriate the masterpiece. What does this story, which resembles a detective story, tell us about? What makes a work of art valuable? And where does this