L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge In the gallery of portraits

In the gallery of portraits brought together in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

brandissant fièrement leurs étendards

The work of this artist of Polish origin

Godard and other New Wave filmmakers

highlighting the development of glass as an economic material

L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge In the gallery of portraitsThe Fayum portraits are this silent population embodied by faces that excavations have gradually brought out of the tombs. Produced in Roman Egypt in the first three centuries AD, and belonging to both a Greek mimetic tradition and a specifically Egyptian ritual accompaniment, they were not intended to be seen. But since they were found and identified, they have never ceased to fascinate. Scattered across the world, their enigma remains intact, we are