{"id":27532,"date":"2026-04-25T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=27532"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:09:28","slug":"passez-voirla-venus-darles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/04\/25\/passez-voirla-venus-darles\/","title":{"rendered":"Passez voirla V\u00e9nus d\u2019Arles&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Le passage de V\u00e9nus.\u00a0\u00bb Quel joli titre pour cette exposition phare du Mus\u00e9e Arles antique, lieu embl\u00e9matique de la culture gr\u00e9co et gallo romaine aux diff\u00e9rents parcours remarquables et toujours p\u00e9dagogiques. Le retour de la V\u00e9nus d\u2019Arles, visible jusqu\u2019au 31\u00a0octobre, est un \u00e9v\u00e9nement \u00e0 plus d\u2019un titre, car il nous invite<br \/>\u00e0 nous plonger dans plusieurs temporalit\u00e9s historiques. Premi\u00e8rement, la d\u00e9couverte de cette statue a eu lieu au mitan du XVII<sup>e<\/sup>\u00a0si\u00e8cle, en plein r\u00e8gne du roi Soleil, Louis\u00a0XIV. Un roi \u00e0 l\u2019origine de la monarchie absolue. Un absolutisme qui s\u2019imposait \u00e0 tous les niveaux jusqu\u2019\u00e0 exiger en cadeau cette V\u00e9nus du I<sup>er<\/sup>\u00a0si\u00e8cle avant notre \u00e8re, pour agr\u00e9menter la Galerie des Glaces du Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles, qu\u2019il fallait meubler des \u0153uvres les plus remarquables\u00a0!<\/p>\n<p><b>Diane ou V\u00e9nus<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>L\u2019exposition suscite aussi un grand int\u00e9r\u00eat quant \u00e0 l\u2019identit\u00e9 de cette statue de plus de deux m\u00e8tres de haut\u00a0: est-ce V\u00e9nus ou Diane\u00a0? Des indices sont \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir et chacun peut se faire son histoire dans la grande Histoire. Qui est son cr\u00e9ateur\u00a0? C\u2019est une autre \u00e9nigme que les historiens de l\u2019art ont tent\u00e9 de r\u00e9soudre. La V\u00e9nus d\u2019Arles serait la r\u00e9plique de l\u2019Aphrodite de Thespies du grand sculpteur ath\u00e9nien Praxit\u00e8le. L\u2019inspiration est grecque, la r\u00e9alisation romaine. Mais pas uniquement, car la statue a subi des restaurations. La V\u00e9nus d\u2019Arles t\u00e9moigne donc d\u2019une histoire multiple. Pass\u00e9 le choc de sa d\u00e9couverte &#8211;\u00a0elle est monumentale\u00a0&#8211; on plonge dans ce p\u00e9riple historique jusqu\u2019\u00e0 nos jours avec un dialogue fantastique entre la V\u00e9nus d\u2019Arles et des \u0153uvres contemporaines. Une exposition \u00e0 voir.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&laquo;&nbsp;Le passage de V&eacute;nus.&nbsp;&raquo; Quel joli titre pour cette exposition phare du Mus&eacute;e Arles antique, lieu embl&eacute;matique de la culture gr&eacute;co et gallo romaine aux diff&eacute;rents parcours remarquables et &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332],"tags":[5349,1234,279,153],"news-destination":[],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-27532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edito","tag-antiquite","tag-arles","tag-exposition","tag-musee","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27534,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27532\/revisions\/27534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27532"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=27532"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=27532"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=27532"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=27532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}