Angkor
dal 15/10/2013 al 12/1/2014
Segnalato da
National Museum of Asian Art Guimet
15/10/2013
Angkor
National Museum of Asian Art Guimet, Paris
Birth of a Myth - Louis Delaporte and Cambodia: the rediscovery of Angkor monuments and Cambodian heritage
Birth of a Myth - Louis Delaporte and Cambodia. This exhibition addresses the rediscovery of Angkor monuments and Cambodian heritage in the light of works and original documents gathered by the great French explorer Louis Delaporte (1842-1925) - original sculptures, drawings, watercolours, old photographs, casts etc. For the first time since 1925, impressive examples of sculptures and bas reliefs moulded in the late 19th century, once exhibited in the galleries of the Indochinese Museum in Trocadero are on show following complete restoration. A gaze is focused on these expeditions which occurred in the grand era of universal and colonial exhibitions.