Aventuriers des mers. VIIe-XVIIe siècle. Pratique Outside the studios

Outside the studios

Guide Nagel

ironworkers

When the ancient city of Pompeii was drawn entirely within the perimeter of its walls

its ways of being and living

Aventuriers des mers. VIIe-XVIIe siècle. Pratique Outside the studiosFrom Sinbad the Sailor to Marco Polo, then from Ibn Battuta and Vasco da Gama to the East India Companies, extraordinary travel stories have recounted the richness of maritime trade between the seas of the Old World. This exhibition, which will open at the Institut du Monde Arabe next November, then at the MuCEM from May 2017, and its catalog will lead the visitor and the reader to the intersection of African gold and Western silver, Golconda diamonds