Lyon et la naissance de l'égyptologie. François Artaud, Jean-François Champollion. Grèce mais aussi héritiers des cultures

mais aussi héritiers des cultures antérieures à la leur dont ils ont brillamment fait la synthèse et parfois même amélioré les apports

the list and number of which have been established in detail for the first time

going beyond the apparent opposition between abstraction and figuration

Juliette Guépratte

Lyon et la naissance de l'égyptologie. François Artaud, Jean-François Champollion. Grèce mais aussi héritiers des culturesThe Muse des Beaux Arts de Lyon is associated with the celebration of the bicentenary of the decipherment of hieroglyphs by Jean Franois Champollion, in 1822, through the scientific and friendly relationship maintained for more than twenty years by the first director of the Muse de Lyon, Franois Artaud (1767 1838), and Jean Franois Champollion (1790 1832). At a time when hieroglyphic inscriptions were few in number in the collections, Artaud worked to