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

magnificently illustrated with portraits

Between private gardens

between history and legend

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