Art History

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  Luisa CAPODIECI

  Medicæa Medæa

  Art, astres et pouvoir à la Cour de Catherine de Médicis

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 484

  Catherine of Medici's association with magic invites an analysis of talismanic images in art under the last of the Valois dynasty in France. Through the themes of magic, astrology and prophecy, this study examines the Florentine queen’s role ...

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  Mickaël SZANTO

  Le Dessin ou la couleur ? Une exposition de peinture sous le règne de Louis XIV

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  A booklet itemising 171 paintings and several sculptures serves as a reminder of a forgotten but important artistic event under Louis XIV: the sumptuous public exhibition organized in Paris in the autumn of 1683. The very first exhibition of its kind...

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  Autour des collections d'art en Chine au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes Orientales - Extrême Orient n° 44/8

  In this volume, art historians and sinologists discuss the question of art collecting in eighteenth-century China. Art collecting is an ancient practice in China, with specific means for acquiring, appreciating and exhibiting objects. Under the Qing...

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  Victor I. STOICHITA

  L'Effet Pygmalion : Pour une anthropologie historique des simulacres

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  L’Effet Pygmalion is based on the literary, visual and audiovisual incursions of the first recorded simulacrum in Western culture. Although given life as woman and wife of her sculptor by the gods, and despite her soul and body, Pygmalion nevertheless...

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  Christian MICHEL

  Le «célèbre Watteau»

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  Working outside court circles and away from the usual patrons, Watteau achieved fame in a short period of time before his premature death. His contemporaries described his paintings as ‘innovative’ and ‘charming’. It is interesting to compare the...

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  Samuel HOOGSTRATEN

  Introduction à la haute école de l’art de peinture

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  The Introduction to the school of the art of painting (1678), by Rembrandt's former pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten, is an important source on the visual culture and artistic practices of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. A French translation, notes...

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  Ralph DEKONINCK

  "Ad Imaginem" : Statuts, fonctions et usages de l'image dans la littérature spirituelle jésuite du XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  The 'rhetoric of paintings' in seventeenth-century Jesuit literature is concerned with bringing pictures to life and granting them speech. Since the sixteenth century the prefaces to illustrated books had been repeating that the 'body' (or picture)...

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  Peter SHARRATT

  Bernard Salomon, illustrateur lyonnais

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 400

  Bernard Salomon (c. 1508–c. 1561) worked mainly for Jean de Tournes as a designer (and probably engraver) of woodcuts for book-illustration, elegantly conceived in the manner of Fontainebleau. The work attributed to him (over 1600 pictures) covers...

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  Philippe KAENEL

  Le Métier d'illustrateur (1830-1880) :

  Rodolphe Töpffer, J. J. Grandville, Gustave Doré

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  From 1830, the number of illustrators grew in line with the revolution in the world of print and engraving. Most nineteenth-century artists worked for the book trade at some time. This ‘journalism of the pencil’ (Théophile Gautier) could be either a...

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  Jean WIRTH

  La Datation de la sculpture médiévale

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  Was there ever such a thing as Carolingian statuary? Do the masterpieces of Romanesque sculpture in the Auvergne actually date from the twelfth century? Does thirteenth-century Saxon sculpture really derive from French models? When were the porch at...