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Paris-Athens. Birth of modern Greece (1675-1919).
MARTINEZ Jean-Luc.

Paris-Athens. Birth of modern Greece (1675-1919).

Hazan
€39,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 24089
Format 24.8 x 29.3
Détails 490 p., numerous illustrations, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782754112123
In 2021, Greece will celebrate the bicentenary of its War of Independence; it was also 200 years ago, in 1821, that the Venus de Milo entered the collections of the Louvre. This book explores the various cultural, diplomatic, and artistic ties that united France and Greece between the 17th and early 20th centuries , from the embassy of the Marquis de Nointel in Constantinople to the independent exhibition of the Greek Techne group in Paris. Through its ambassadors, artists, and archaeologists, France is rediscovering a Greece deeply imbued with its Byzantine and Ottoman past. The ancient history of Greece is constantly enriched by the numerous excavations that bring the support of science to archaeology, previously essentially literary. After its independence, the primary challenge for Greece was to create its own, and above all, modern, identity: Europe, heavily involved in this Revolution, circulated models and ideas and exerted its influence on the new state.
Through many mediums - painting, sculpture, archaeology, literature, costume, architecture, photography - we discover the extent of these relationships and the construction of modern Greek identity in contact with European nations.
This brief history of Franco-Greek relations highlights what Greece owes to France, but also what France owes to Greece.
In 2021, Greece will celebrate the bicentenary of its War of Independence; it was also 200 years ago, in 1821, that the Venus de Milo entered the collections of the Louvre. This book explores the various cultural, diplomatic, and artistic ties that united France and Greece between the 17th and early 20th centuries , from the embassy of the Marquis de Nointel in Constantinople to the independent exhibition of the Greek Techne group in Paris. Through its ambassadors, artists, and archaeologists, France is rediscovering a Greece deeply imbued with its Byzantine and Ottoman past. The ancient history of Greece is constantly enriched by the numerous excavations that bring the support of science to archaeology, previously essentially literary. After its independence, the primary challenge for Greece was to create its own, and above all, modern, identity: Europe, heavily involved in this Revolution, circulated models and ideas and exerted its influence on the new state.
Through many mediums - painting, sculpture, archaeology, literature, costume, architecture, photography - we discover the extent of these relationships and the construction of modern Greek identity in contact with European nations.
This brief history of Franco-Greek relations highlights what Greece owes to France, but also what France owes to Greece.