Parution : Marlène Albert Llorca et Pierre Rouillard, “The Many Faces of the Lady of Elche. Essays on the Reception of an Iberian Sculpture”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025
On 4 August 1897, farm workers in Elche — the site of ancient Ilici — discovered an Iberian sculpture of a woman that dated from the fifth– fourth centuries BCE. French archaeologist Pierre Paris dubbed this figure ‘the Lady of Elche’, and promptly purchased the sculpture on behalf of the Louvre Museum. There, she drew the attention of European scholars who were intrigued by her stylistic features, finally concluding that she bore witness to the...



