Geneviève Lacambre (born 1937) is a French honorary general curator of heritage, and has been the Chargée de mission at the Musée d'Orsay.
[2] Lacambre has been for seventeen years director of the Musée national Gustave Moreau in Paris, from 1985 to 2002, a specialist of this Symbolist painter.
Creator of a highly personal universe, where there is a passion for myths and mysticism—Salome, Orpheus, Oedipus and the Sphinx ...—dream and imagination, poetry and mystery.
Moreau was at the same time one of the forerunners of Symbolism and one of those who opened the way for modern art: he was teacher of Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault, and was fascinating to the later Surrealists who drunk on dreams.
The body text is divided into five chapters: I, "Uncertain Beginnings"; II, "In the School of Italy"; III, "A Hope for History Painting"; IV, "The Birth of Symbolism"; V, "A Message to Future Generations".