From Father to Son, from Beirut to the Louvre, the Epic of the Abou Adal Icons

Bélinda Ibrahim, 28/02 17:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Louvre Museum Collection Icons Christianism Lebanon

The extraordinary journey of the Abou Adal collection began in the early 1950s, in a Lebanon then regarded as the “Switzerland of the Middle East.” Georges Abou Adal, driven by a curiosity for Eastern sacred art, acquired his first icons in 1952. What started as a personal interest quickly turned into a passionate quest to preserve and ...