Exposition "L'Antiquité retrouvée, trésors du cabinet des livres" au Château de Chantilly

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Through some twenty prestigious volumes, the library cabinet highlights the various ways in which Greek and Roman Antiquity has been transmitted, revisited and interpreted from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century. The Duke of Aumale received the five volumes of Ennio Quirino Visconti's Greek Iconography and Roman Iconography as a prize at the General Competition of 1839. He would continue to enrich his collection with first editions of great classical texts and sple