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

between history and legend

spread over 8 centuries

sketches and drawings

Between private gardens

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