Arts

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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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  Victor HUGO

  Les Contemplations

  Reproduction au trait de l'original de 1856, offert à Auguste Vacquerie

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Victor Hugo's 1856 Les Contemplations was an immense success, selling out its first edition within days. The present work is a facsimile edition of the copy offered by Hugo to his lost daughter’s brother-in-law, Auguste Vacquerie...

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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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  Venise et Paris, 1500-1700

  La peinture vénitienne de la Renaissance et sa réception en France (actes des colloques de Bordeaux et de Caen, 24-25 février 2006, 6 mai 2006)

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes n° 100

  This collection of articles examines how French theoreticians, painters and art lovers considered seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Venetian paintings through the lens of artistic literature and debates in the French Academy...

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  Bruno PETEY-GIRARD

  Le Sceptre et la plume

  Images du prince protecteur des Lettres de la Renaissance au Grand Siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 466

  The figure of the prince as patron of letters seems almost a historiographical topos, with literary patronage too easily considered as cultural politics. However, between the 16th and the 17th century, this image was the result of a slow ...

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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...