Afghanistan – Shadows and legends
Wednesday, December 14: Conference visit by Sylvie Ahmadian, lecturer at MNAA-Guimet. On the occasion of the centenary of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA), the [...]
Sculpture and Philhellenism in Japan (1930-1945)
Lecture by Michael Lucken, Professor at INALCO. In Japan, philhellenism manifested itself most clearly in sculpture between 1930 and 1945. It is an aspect of the art [...]
Moving Ink – A History of 20th Century Chinese Painting
Wednesday, November 30, 2022, visit-conference of the exhibition Ink in motion – A history of 20th century Chinese painting by Mael Bellec, chief curator at the Cernuschi museum. [...]
Japanese Painting in Search of Western Realism
Wednesday 19 October at 18 p.m.: Japanese Painting in Search of Western Realism, Conference by Christine Shimizu, Honorary General Curator of Heritage, former Director of the [...]
Chinese jades from the Neolithic to the 20th century.
The Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum has invited Christophe Comentale, doctor of Chinese art history, honorary chief curator, to give a lecture entitled Les jades chinoises [...]
The main Japanese Buddhist currents
Lecture by Frédéric Girard, emeritus director of studies at the EFEO. Buddhism has become acclimatized in Japan in several forms, popular and scholarly, in symbiosis with [...]
Mother, courtesan, nun, medium or goddess: the feminine in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism
Lecture by Catherine Despeux, sinologist, honorary professor at INALCO. In China, the feminine is expressed according to the cosmological model of yin and yang. These two principles are [...]
The bow and the saber – Imaginary warrior of Japan
Visit-conference by Sylvie Ahmadian, lecturer at MNAA-Guimet. The term samurai is mentioned for the first time in a 10th century text, but is not used in its current sense until [...]
Strongholds of Chosŏn, ancient Korea
Conference by Francis Macouin, retired General Curator of MNAA-Guimet. The history of Chosŏn extends over 500 years (1392-1897) and is marked by a fairly great political stability because [...]
Textiles of Central Asia from the 5th to the 9th Century: Riddles and Hypotheses.
Conference by Gilles Béguin, Honorary General Curator of Heritage, former director of the Cernuschi museum. For about thirty years appearing on the art market [...]
