Les arts en Europe au XVIIe siècle. Manuels de l'Ecole du Louvre. Antique daily attitudes and gestures towards

daily attitudes and gestures towards death

animals and humans

the banks of ponds: the forest is above all the place of sacrifice and whoever ventures there

magical texts

and political models passed through it

Les arts en Europe au XVIIe siècle. Manuels de l'Ecole du Louvre. Antique daily attitudes and gestures towardsThe "Grand Sicle" in France, the "Golden Age" in the Netherlands and Spain, the 17th century was a time of extraordinary artistic flowering in Europe. In a context of religious controversy, while war was almost incessant in a continent that was reconfiguring itself, the period was marked by an unparalleled flowering of the arts and major achievements in architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative arts.