Les globes de Louis XIV, étude artistique, historique et matérielle. Sculpture were designed by the best

were designed by the best workshops in Paris

reste méconnu du grand public

never before exhibited)

The predynastic necropolis of Kom el-Khilgan (eastern Delta) was the subject of four excavation campaigns

Les globes de Louis XIV, étude artistique, historique et matérielle. Sculpture were designed by the bestPresented by Cardinal d'Estres to Louis XIV in 1683, the terrestrial and celestial globes created by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli are exceptional both for their size four meters in diameter and for what they reveal about the philosophical, scientific and artistic debates that agitated the court and the world of scientists at the end of the 17th century. Intended to serve the political ambition of their sponsor by flattering the