AZZI Clothilde, JAILLET Martin, NAAR Mathilde.
From Corinth to Rue d'Ulm. The Paul and Yvonne Mercier Collection.
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| N° d'inventaire | 26120 |
| Format | 18 x 24 |
| Détails | 276 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791037022165 |
On March 13, 1922, Gustave Lanson, director of the École normale supérieure de Paris, informed the notary of Paul Casimir Mercier (former student, Literature class of 1883) that the collection of Greek terracotta that he had bequeathed to the ENS had been installed under glass in the Literature library.
After lying dormant in boxes for almost a century, this collection of forty-three objects was rediscovered by chance in the ENS library in 2015. Since then, the study, publication and promotion of this unpublished archaeological furniture (ceramics, figurines and objects made of terracotta, marble and bronze) have been undertaken by a group of students, in collaboration with the Literature library and the AOROC laboratory.
The book presents the results of this collective work: a richly illustrated scientific catalog, a synthetic analysis, and a tour of the archives, the fruits of a meticulous investigation into the anticomanes of the Belle Époque. We discover the tumultuous history of a collection richer than it appears at first glance, from Corinth to Paris via Nantes, at the turn of the 20th century.
After lying dormant in boxes for almost a century, this collection of forty-three objects was rediscovered by chance in the ENS library in 2015. Since then, the study, publication and promotion of this unpublished archaeological furniture (ceramics, figurines and objects made of terracotta, marble and bronze) have been undertaken by a group of students, in collaboration with the Literature library and the AOROC laboratory.
The book presents the results of this collective work: a richly illustrated scientific catalog, a synthetic analysis, and a tour of the archives, the fruits of a meticulous investigation into the anticomanes of the Belle Époque. We discover the tumultuous history of a collection richer than it appears at first glance, from Corinth to Paris via Nantes, at the turn of the 20th century.
On March 13, 1922, Gustave Lanson, director of the École normale supérieure de Paris, informed the notary of Paul Casimir Mercier (former student, Literature class of 1883) that the collection of Greek terracotta that he had bequeathed to the ENS had been installed under glass in the Literature library.
After lying dormant in boxes for almost a century, this collection of forty-three objects was rediscovered by chance in the ENS library in 2015. Since then, the study, publication and promotion of this unpublished archaeological furniture (ceramics, figurines and objects made of terracotta, marble and bronze) have been undertaken by a group of students, in collaboration with the Literature library and the AOROC laboratory.
The book presents the results of this collective work: a richly illustrated scientific catalog, a synthetic analysis, and a tour of the archives, the fruits of a meticulous investigation into the anticomanes of the Belle Époque. We discover the tumultuous history of a collection richer than it appears at first glance, from Corinth to Paris via Nantes, at the turn of the 20th century.
After lying dormant in boxes for almost a century, this collection of forty-three objects was rediscovered by chance in the ENS library in 2015. Since then, the study, publication and promotion of this unpublished archaeological furniture (ceramics, figurines and objects made of terracotta, marble and bronze) have been undertaken by a group of students, in collaboration with the Literature library and the AOROC laboratory.
The book presents the results of this collective work: a richly illustrated scientific catalog, a synthetic analysis, and a tour of the archives, the fruits of a meticulous investigation into the anticomanes of the Belle Époque. We discover the tumultuous history of a collection richer than it appears at first glance, from Corinth to Paris via Nantes, at the turn of the 20th century.