Matinale - Cycle "Les plus beaux musées du monde et leur chefs d'oeuvres" - Lisbonne : Musée Calouste Gulbenkian et Monastère des Hiéronymites

The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, located north of Lisbon, owes its name to one of the greatest art collectors of the 20th century: Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. If the museum is one of the most beautiful private art collections in the world, it is because of a refined selection of works, but also linked to the vast horizon of their provenances: ancient art with the Egyptian and Greco-Roman galleries, the treasures of Islamic art acquired during his travels, the Far East with Asia and Japan. A...