Le Livre d'or des symboles. Afrique Les clins d'œil à l'histoire

Les clins d'œil à l'histoire de l'art y sont nombreux

Archeology and History of the Civil War

Xenophanes (6th BC) reproached Homer for giving the gods an unflattering and immoral image

which are often the genesis of his paintings

From 1987 to 2009

Le Livre d'or des symboles. Afrique Les clins d'œil à l'histoireWhat do works of art say and what do they represent? Is it possible that, beneath what our eyes see, the artist has depicted a hidden message? From the vast repertoire of symbols of the past, painters have drawn images and codes of representation, the key to interpreting them is often lost. These images and codes, the iconographic treasure of Western art presented here, groups them under the following themes: time, man, allegories, space, plants,