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Trésors insolites des musées de France

Dominique Williatte and Jean-Jacques Breton

The Louvre, Orsay, Versailles, we know them all! Let the museums of Senlis, of Castres, of Langres or of Tours come up to the front line. This guide could be seen as calling for that, as it calls us to go away from the traditional paths. And not necessarily to see second class art: The Virgin’s Marriage by Perugino, that was such an inspiration for Raffaelo, can be seen at the museum of Beaux-Arts in Caen while we can admire some beautiful paintings by Caillebotte in Rennes. And who knows that the Fenaille museum in Rodez has some splendid statue-menhirs five thousand years old, that the castle-museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer has Alphonse Pinart’s remarkable collection of eskimo masks (collected in 1871-72 in Alaska) or that the most beautiful Antique bronze crater, made by workshops of Magna-Grecia five centuries before our time, is sitting calmly at Châtillon-sur-Seine? There are no long three-day weekends in May this year. Hence our cultural outings in June should be ever more exciting…


Trésors insolites des musées de France by Dominique Williatte and Jean-Jacques Breton, Flammarion, 2011, 35 €

Trésors insolites des musées de France - Dominique Williatte and Jean-Jacques Breton


Review published in the newsletter #217 - from 19 May 2011 to 25 May 2011

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