Apollo mission, where the call to donations to acquire a god. The Louvre Museum launches its tenth donation campaign to acquire a representation of the "god of the Arts Apollo" nude. This bronze of ancient Greek, found in the ashes of Pompeii, is worth 6.7 million euros. If the Society of Friends of the Louvre has already donated a little more than half the amount, the museum hopes to convince great patrons and has also decided to appeal to all French.
"An exceptional discovery"
The objective of this campaign is to gather 800,000 to be able to preserve this Apollon Citharède dating from the first or second century before Christ. A work of art that mysteriously disappeared at the same time as Pompeii, before reappearing in Paris in the 1920s, in a private collection. He will remain there for nearly a century.
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"There are very few Greek bronzes of this time known in the world, simply because they were melted, so this is an exceptional discovery," confirms the microphone of Europe 1 Jean-Luc Martinez, the director of the Louvre . "We can first admire the museum, and we hope that it will encourage visitors to give some money so that Apollon can definitely join the Louvre," he says.
" " It's not everyday that you can photograph a god " "And to put the odds on its side, the operation "All Patrons!" Mission Apollo has a media sponsor and appreciated the French: Nikos Aliagas. "It's not every day that we can to photograph a god ", amuses the former moderator of the morning of Europe 1." And it is good that one can today admire this magnificent work, this work of genius ".
To make a donation, go to tousmécènes.fr or by SMS to 92004 by sending "LOUVRE". The minimum amount of a donation has been set at 5 euros.