Quand Rome inventait le populisme. Beaux-arts as a permanent employee of

as a permanent employee of the Egyptian Antiquities Service and honorary research director of the CNRS

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Cet ouvrage restitue toute la magie de cet art singulier et fait la part belle à des peintres comme Mucha ou ToulouseLautrec dont les affiches colorées sont désormais devenues iconiques

his eminently three-dimensional thinking

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Quand Rome inventait le populisme. Beaux-arts as a permanent employee ofThere's something of Cicero in Emmanuel Macron, and something of Clodius in Donald Trump. It is as a historian of Antiquity that Raphal Doan demonstrates that we did not invent populism. The Romans, at the end of the Republic, experienced a life and death struggle between what they called the populares and the optimates. Appeal to the people, a taste for radical solutions, recourse to the figure of the strong man: these tribunes in togas and sandals