Ars Longa

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  Jean WIRTH

  La sculpture de la cathédrale de Reims et sa place dans l'art du XIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Ars Longa n° 6

  Despite the wide body of research concerning the Reims cathedral, the timeline of its construction, and therefore of its sculptures, is still a controversial subject. Given the significance of this building site...

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  Carl MAGNUSSON

  Les sculpteurs d'ornement à Genève au XVIIIe siècle

  Jean Jaquet et ses émules obscurs

  Librairie Droz | Ars Longa n° 5

  Carl Magnusson examines eighteenth-century ornament carvers and their trade within the hierarchy of their time, ambiguously situated as they were between the mechanical and liberal arts. Through his study of Jean Jaquet, he explores a wide-ranging field of work...

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  L'Image en questions. Pour Jean Wirth

  Droz | Ars Longa n° 4

  Jean Wirth is without contest one of the most original and inventive medievalists of recent years. He has dedicated much of his work to defining the systems which underpin the status of the medieval image, taking on a wide range of questions.

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  Christian MICHEL

  L'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1648-1793). La naissance de l'Ecole Française.

  Librairie Droz | Ars Longa n° 3

  The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture ruled the arts in France for a century and a half. However, the institution remains largely misunderstood and continues to be characterized even today using terms taken from the discourses...

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  Jean-François CORPATAUX

  Le corps à l'oeuvre

  Sculpture et moulage au XIXe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Ars Longa n° 2

  This work examines the reception and art history of naturalism in sculpture during the nineteenth century, focusing on the vision of the body and the interaction between animation and petrification...

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  Henriette POMMIER

  Au Maillet d'argent. Jacques Fornazeris graveur et éditeur d'estampes, Turin - Lyon (vers 1585 - 1619 ?).

  Librairie Droz | Ars Longa n° 1

  Jacques Fornazeris was active at the court of Savoy at the end of the 16th century, where he engraved portraits and topographical views in the manner of D. Alphani, A. Ardente, J. Kraeck as well as architectural works in the manner of A. Vitozzi...