Trésors de masques du musée du Quai Branly. Copte culturelle et artistique de l'Empire

culturelle et artistique de l'Empire romain d'Orient

Written by two specialists - Marc Bouiron

••• This work is based upon the study of a corpus of documents dating from 45 BC to 785 AD that present monuments of Alexandria or general overviews of the town

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) received a camera

which illustrate both the main categories of games and the symbolic power attached to their practice

Trésors de masques du musée du Quai Branly. Copte culturelle et artistique de l'EmpireThe art of the mask, whether linked to ancestral rites, theater, or dance, bears witness, across time and space, to an extraordinary variety of forms and materialswood, fur, fabrics, plant fibers, stone, papier mch. The 100 priceless masks brought to light by the Muse du quai Branly are all at the heart of community life and reveal to us the powerful link between the world of the living and the magical forces of the invisible.