Platon et la cité grecque. Théorie et réalité dans la constitution des Lois. Architecture – paysage the visual language of works

the visual language of works of art is often opaque and off-putting: it is not uncommon to "understand" an abstract painting more than an altarpiece predella with a half-naked young man pierced by arrows (Saint Sebastian)

Paris and New York (January 13–March 12

«Drehspuren am Säulenbauteil des archaischen Heraion von Argos

Entirely re-executed with unprecedented precision thanks to vector drawing

Why did Soutine paint animal corpses

Platon et la cité grecque. Théorie et réalité dans la constitution des Lois. Architecture – paysage the visual language of worksWhy did Plato write the Laws? The work demonstrates an interest in concrete institutions and positive laws that his philosophical project did not a priori justify. The undertaking, immense, had never before been attempted on such a scale. According to Aristotle, Plato intended, in writing this work, to propose a type of constitution more suited to cities than that of the Republic. Comparing the institutions advocated in the Laws with their Greek