EUROPE IMAGES INTERNATIONAL - M5

Synopsis

The museums of France are home to some of the world’s greatest works of art. Learn the fascinating stories behind these priceless masterworks. Each episode in the series investigates one piece – from the time of its discovery to arrival in its new home – drawing on the incomparable collections of sculpture and antiquities of the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Quai Branly and Musee de Lyon.

10 WORKS FROM THE LOUVRE MUSEUM
Michelango's Slaves
The Crouching Scribe
The Baptistry of Saint Louis
The Borghese Gladiator
The Naked Voltaire
Death of Sardanapalus
Suger's Eagle
Delacroix
Le Brun's Ambassadors' Staircase
The Intendant Ebih-Il

2 WORKS FROM THE QUAI BRANLY
The Yoruba twins and the Yup’ik mask

4 WORKS FROM THE ORSAY MUSEUM:
The Artist’s Studio from Gustave Courbet,
Le balcon from Manet,
Pierro the photographer from Nadar
The woman bitten by a snake by Auguste Clesinger

2 WORKS FROM THE CENTRE POMPIDOU
Invisible sleeping woman, horse, lion by Salvador Dali
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

2 WORKS FROM THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM IN LYON
The monomany of envy by Gericault
Woman sitting on the beach by Picasso

2 WORKS FROM THE MUSEUM OF THE OEUVRE NOTRE-DAME & MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART OF STRASBOURG
TETE D’HOMME AU TURBAN DE NICOLAS DE LEYDE
CHRIST LEAVING THE PRAETORIUM GUSTAVE DORÉ

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