Through the contributions of 22 authors, this book examines the legacy of Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the architect who restored Notre-Dame de Paris.

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New studies on religious and monastic architecture between the 11^th and 13^th centuries in northern France and neighboring regions.

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How to make a work in terracotta or bronze in ancient Greece and Egypt and what are the meeting points between the two techniques?

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This dictionary allows the discovery of forgotten painters from the north of France and contributes to the knowledge of the specificities of regional art and the history of Lille and its surroundings.

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May 1968 at the University of Architecture in Turin. The young Gruppo Strum and Studio 65 designers took an active part in student protests. These events fixed their project practice in a political dimension, engraved in the design/politics/Italianness triad.

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Towards a material history of the restoration site (1830-1914)

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On l'oublie trop souvent – paradoxalement, les étudiants eux-mêmes –, mais le deuxième cycle universitaire dans le domaine des Sciences historiques et artistiques est, fondamentalement, celui dont l’objet est d’introduire le candidat à la recherche et à son monde. Le présent volume découle d’un colloque qui s’inscrit pleinement dans cette optique

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Lumières du Nord marks the culmination of an international research program on French and Flemish illuminated manuscripts from the National Library of Spain (BNE). The book brings together twelve publications signed by renowned European and Americans experts on manuscript painting who provide an in-depth analysis of unpublished or unknown ..

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Louis Malet de Graville (circa 1440-1516), Admiral of France from 1487, is a figure forgotten by history. However, this wealthy lord with a long political career is a cornerstone of the court of Louis XI, Charles VIII and Louis XII of France. He was one of the most active secular patron of the arts, during the long end of the Middle Ages when begin

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Studying wall-paintings is literally going up against the wall to understand past cultures. Alpine religious images document rich cultural phenomena. Thus, by combining visual anthropology, history, and information and communication sciences, ancient images may be analysed as an active media.

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Who is Jan van Eyck? Even if the painter from the Meuse area has bequeathed major groundbreaking works, which have made him famous since the XVth century, the very incomplete sources only permit to get a glimpse of some aspects of the Flemish master and his personality. Consequently, writing about Jan van Eyck's life represents a challenge that ...

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The pont Notre-Dame was one of the most extraordinary inhabited bridges in Paris. Its history remains attached to an event: the ephemeral presentation on the façade of Gersaint's store of the famous Shopsign painted by Watteau in 1720. What did this monumental bridge look like before the destruction of its dwellings? Why did L'Enseigne de ...

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Living in the shade of cathedrals and castles. Some twenty researchers provide original answers to this issue by showing, through supporting examples, how houses are designed, built, occupied or transformed in the city as well as in the country, from the 12th to the 20th centuries, in North of France.

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Au moment où les historiens de l'art réhabilitent l’architecture de la fin du Moyen Âge, nous avons souhaité rééditer l’ouvrage pionnier consacré par Roland Sanfaçon en 1971 à L’Architecture flamboyante en France. Notre motivation se fonde sur l’appel encore incontournable à son contenu, sur l’absence d’une synthèse française équivalente et, ...

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On l'oublie trop souvent – paradoxalement, les étudiants eux-mêmes –, mais le deuxième cycle universitaire dans le domaine des Sciences historiques et artistiques est, fondamentalement, celui dont l’objet est d’introduire le candidat à la recherche et à son monde. Le présent volume découle d’un colloque qui s’inscrit pleinement dans cette optique

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Medieval crypts are a mystery-filled heritage whose variety and questions remain unknown. Thirty researchers contribute to the knowledge of crypts in two regions.

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On l'oublie trop souvent – paradoxalement, les étudiants eux-mêmes –, mais le deuxième cycle universitaire dans le domaine des Sciences historiques et artistiques est, fondamentalement, celui dont l’objet est d’introduire le candidat à la recherche et à son monde. Le présent volume découle d’un colloque qui s’inscrit pleinement dans cette optique

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On l'oublie trop souvent – paradoxalement, les étudiants eux-mêmes –, mais le deuxième cycle universitaire dans le domaine des Sciences historiques et artistiques est, fondamentalement, celui dont l’objet est d’introduire le candidat à la recherche et à son monde. Le présent volume découle d’un colloque qui s’inscrit pleinement dans cette optique

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