From medieval psalters to the oils of Gustave Courbet, the Louvre has organized one of the most comprehensive surveys of a cultural motif that is both beguiling and timely.

The works in this striking soon-to-close exhibition are diverse, but the show as a whole never arrives at a coherent point about the agony of uprootedness.

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