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Léonard de Vinci, la restauration du siècle
Director(s): Stan Neumann
This is one of the most beautiful paintings in the world, one of the most mysterious too. It is also a "sick" painting, defaced or threatened by "reparations" and successive layers of varnish...
The Shadow and the Hand
Director(s): Laurence Garret
This documentary follows the restoration (during the first half of 2006) of a painting by Jean Broc (1771–1850) kept in the storerooms of the Louvre. This work, the School of Apelles, was executed...
Awakening Apollo
Director(s): Jérôme Prieur
The construction of the Apollo Gallery began under the direction of architect Louis Le Vau and painter Charles Le Brun when Louis XIV came to power in 1661, and was completed two hundred years later...
The Residence of Apollo
Director(s): Jean-Christophe Ballot
The Apollo Gallery was created at the instigation of Louis XIV. Built and decorated between 1661 and 1851 by the greatest French painters, sculptors, and architects (including Le Brun, Delacroix,...
The Stained Glass Windows by Pierre Soulages
Director(s): Jean-Noël Cristiani
In 1986, the painter Pierre Soulages was commissioned to create a series of stained glass windows for the Romanesque abbey church in Conques, to replace the windows installed in the 1940s. This film,...
St. Mary Magdalene: Restoration of a German...
Director(s): Romano Prada
This short documentary recounts the restoration of Gregor Erhart's sculpture of Mary Magdalene as a mystical ascetic (1510). Legend has it that the repented sinner lived hidden in the cave of St....
The Fragmented Revelation
This short documentary describes the restoration of a late 6th-century Greek calyx-krater made by the potter Euxitheos and probably painted by Euphronios, which belonged to the Marquis de Campana...
De Louis XIV à Marie-Antoinette – Un art de vivre...
Pendant trois ans, une équipe de tournage a pu suivre chaque étape du chantier de rénovation des nouvelles galeries du Musée du Louvre dédiées à la plus belle collection au monde d'objets d'art et de...