The Louvre Collection: Phantoms of the Louvre

Superstar European SF and Fantasy comics artist Enki Bilal revisits the Louvre in twenty-two portraits. THe imagines 22 fates of men, women and children whose lives have been affected by a work of art. 22 portraits for 5000 years of creation. They haunt the halls of the Louvre. They are long dead, often violently. They are a Roman legionary, a muse, a painter, a German officer. Each, one day, met a painter or a sculptor and was their model. Bilal felt them, wandering the corridors of the Louvre, close to the work that tipped their life: Mona Lisa, the Victory of Samothrace, Christ reclining, an Egyptian mask. Bilal startlingly brings them back to life.