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No. 5
from Wednesday, April 25 2007 to Saturday, September 08 2007
Museum Lab, second presentation
Tanagras: Female Figures of Ancient Greece
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Tokyo
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) and the Musée du Louvre are continuing their joint Museum Lab project with a new presentation, housed in a dedicated area at DNP’s Gotanda headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
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Louvre - DNP Museum Lab is an experimental project exploring new approaches to artworks in the Musée du Louvre's collections, drawing on DNP’s expertise in information technology and state-of-the-art digital imaging, and public outreach expertise developed at the Louvre. From 2006 through 2009, Museum Lab proposes a series of six different presentations, each lasting around five months, in the DNP building. The theme of each presentation will also be explored in conferences and screenings as well as on the Web site of the project, www.museumlab.jp
The first presentation in the series, inaugurated in October 2006, featured the portrait of A Carabineer, by one of the greatest French painters of the 19th century, Théodore Géricault. Now, the second Museum Lab event presents an experimental approach to three-dimensional works: terracotta statuettes from ancient Greece, known as Tanagras. The Paris World Fair of 1878 sparked a veritable craze for Tanagra figures throughout Europe. They became a source of inspiration for many artists, such as Auguste Rodin. For the first time in Japan, visitors can discover three important, representative ancient Greek works in terracotta from the Musée du Louvre: the Titeux Dancer, a Phainomeride Figure, and a Woman with a Cloak.
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities : 
