The Unbelievable Story of the Greek Statue on the Louvre Museum: Winged Victory of Samothrace – AT
“This movie gives to comply with an distinctive building website, that of the restoration of one of many nice icons of the Louvre Museum. A masterpiece of Greek sculpture, round which tens of millions of holiday makers flock every year, the monument is nonetheless little identified to most people. Archaeologists and artwork historians have been conducting analysis for a few years to elucidate its final mysteries. Primarily based on the key phases of its restoration, this movie tells the story of a sculpture that now not has a head or arms, greater than two millennia previous, which made the journey from a small Greek island virtually 150 years in the past to Paris, in “spare components”. This monument, which is without doubt one of the most spectacular and achieved expressions of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic interval, has dominated the Daru staircase of the Louvre Museum since 1883. “THE VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE, AN ICON UNVEILED” A movie by Juliette Garcias © ARTE FRANCE, GEDEON PROGRAMMES” from the video introduction
