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The Ceiling Painting

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The current ceiling (1965), of Andre Masson, replaces that painted by Jean-Paul Laurens in 1888.

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André Masson took around the central topic Apollo-Sun (the hero tearing off the solar heart of the eagle), the figures of the Comedy and the Tragedy: Eschyle (Agamemnon), Aristophane (Lysistrata), Shakespeare (The Merry Wifes of Windsor and Falstaff), Kleist (Penthesilea), Claudel (Tête d'or); and finally three colossi expressing the three fundamental attitudes of the life: jubilation, pain and meditation.

photo Laure Vasconi
 
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