Phantoms of the Louvre
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Superstar comic artist Enki Bilal reimagines the Louvre as a ghostly place in this series of 22 portraits. The Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, a reclining Christ, an Egyptian bust—these and other works of art are seen through the eyes of their own particular phantom. The motley collection of men, women, and children presented in these vignettes— a Roman legionary, a muse, a painter, and a German officer, among others—have little in common other than their often violent demises and an eternity spent haunting the iconic Parisian museum. Bilal recounts the life stories of these lost souls in dramatic biographies that combine fiction and historical reality, often evoking the creation of the works in question. The paintings that compose this graphic novel were presented in a special exhibition at the Louvre in early 2013.
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Bilal's works from the 1980s, such as The Carnival of Immortals, and his later work referencing the Bosnian War (Appointment in Paris) established him as one of Europe's greatest graphic sci-fi authors. His distinctive dark artistry and flamboyant imagination are equally apparent in this book, although it lacks the strong narrative element of his other works. Each chapter features a single historical protagonist (usually a model for one of the masterpieces in the Louvre), and Bilal furnishes them all with biographies in which fiction and truth intermingle, creating his own fantastic reality. The themes are often artistic in nature, involving subjects like color, as with the fictional Analia Avellaneda's development of a stunning green pigment used by El Greco or the potent red ochre magically harnessed by a seafaring, blue-eyed Senegalese beauty. With even more heavy symbolism than usual, Bilal's pseudo-historical ghosts come to life in this captivating volume, an imagined secret history of the world's most famous works of art.
