In January 2016, at the annual meeting held by the Trustees of the A. G. Leventis Foundation and the members of the Honorary Committee of the A. G. Leventis Gallery, the Gallery's Director, Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel, the Curator of the Paris Collection, Myrto Hatzaki, and the collaborator in Paris, Sylvie Hartmann, presented an ambitious plan designed to bring a lost masterpiece to life. The Jacquelin de Montluçon Project was conceived as a research and exhibition programme that would bridge the gap between academic discovery and the desire to address a broad public. Intended to transform the recent findings of art-historical research into an engaging travelling exhibition, it promised to bring together scholars and museum experts, broaden the understanding of the oeuvre of an outstanding 15th-century artist and illuminator and revisit the panels of the lost altarpiece created for the Antonine monks of Chambéry, currently housed among four European museums. The project set the pace for an extensive journey of research, restoration and planning, under the guidance of Professor Frédéric Elsig of the University of Geneva and with the collaboration of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Chambéry, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the A. G. Leventis Gallery in Nicosia. As the project progressed, the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France [C2RMF] in Paris also came on board, undertaking the X-raying and digital scanning of the panels, as well as the analysis of colours and pigments used by the artist, adding valuable information about the creative process behind the panels. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Frédéric Elsig teaches Art History at the University of Geneva. An expert on northern European painting, he curated (together with Mauro Natale) the exhibition La Renaissance en Savoie (Geneva 2002) and published Jheronimus Bosch: la question de la chronologie (Geneva 2004) and Painting in France in the 15th Century (Milan 2004). He further compiled the catalogue of Flemish and Dutch paintings of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva (Paris 2005 and 2009). He is currently researching 16th-century French painting. SELLING POINTS: . A way to reimagine the lost altarpiece painted for the Antonine monks of Chambéry in a way never previously possible . This volume is testimony to all parties involved in 'The Jacquelin de Montluçon Project' 80 colour, 25 b/w illustrations
