Réunir une documentation pour l’Art Brut : les prospections de Jean Dubuffet dans l’immédiat après-guerre au regard du modèle ethnographique by Baptiste Brun

“…The early prospecting for artefacts from the fringes of the art world, which would lead the painter to develop the concept of art brut in the summer of 1945, was the occasion for a genuine sharing of experience with the world of psychiatry as well as that of ethnographers. …”
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Découverte, étude et restauration de peintures murales (ca. 1400) en l’église Saint-Jean à Malines by Marjan Buyle, Anna Bergmans

“…The artistic quality of these two major paintings of Saint Christopher and Saint George with dragon reveal the hand of a painter experienced in monumental compositions.…”
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Representation and Design in Historic Gardens by Darío Álvarez

“… A comprehensive landscape architectural project In 1599, the Flemish painter Giusto Utens (?-1609) was commissioned by Duke Ferdinando I de’ Medici to create seventeen large-scale lunette paintings to decorate the banquet hall of the Villa di Artimino. …”
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Jejich osudy jsou tak rozdílné, a přesto tak podobné. Komparace životopisných vyprávění dvou žen, které se věnují umělecké profesi by Lenka Krátká

“… Comparing two life stories (one woman-photographer, one woman-painter), the author handles the topic of limits and possibilities of art production in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic as they were experienced before and after year 1989. …”
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Art Spiegelman : de l’outrenoir à l’outrebiographie dans In the Shadow of No Towers by Yves DAVO

“…After a study comparing Art Spiegelman’s cover album with the “outrenoir” concept theorized by the French painter Pierre Soulages, this article will aim at redefining Spiegelman’s autobiography as “outrebiography,” understood here as going beyond the bounds of a mere testimony of the self towards the biography of a shared experience. …”
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« Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques by Guillaume Perrier

“…How is it possible to explain that Marcel Proust’s work raised the interest of a Polish painter and Russian writer, as they were struggling for life in soviet camps ? …”
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Phénoménologie du paysage by Françoise Dastur

“…This is what defines the painter’s attitude in regard to nature, in so far as he wants to let the things appear from themselves. …”
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Gallo-Roman Terracottas at the Musée archéologique de l’Oise by Adrien Bossard

“…Included in the exhibition is Marchande de statuettes à Pompéi,1 a 19th-century painting by the neo-classical painter Henry-Pierre Picou that effectively illustrates a commercial context for Roman figurines.…”
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From one Michael to four. A paleographical approach to the so-called ‘Astrapades’ by Kostić Elena

“…The study was prompted by a number of unanswered questions, such as: why did the painter of the Virgin Peribleptos, Michael Astrapas, suddenly begin styling himself as ‘Michael Eutychiou’ in his later works in other monuments? …”
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Alma-Tadema et le détournement de la culture savante by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…Alma-Tadema also resorted to erudition in order to offer a subversive vision of Antiquity centred on objects. The painter thus expressed the “repressed” of Victorian society—such as unorthodox forms of sexuality or dionysiac practices—thanks to the reutilisation of antique artefacts.…”
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La légende Caravage. Vie et œuvre de l’artiste, entre fantasmes et réalités by Natacha Aprile

“…Based on this observation, this research will analyze the homophile network of Caravaggio, and among them, the cardinal Del Monte, one of the most important patrons of the painter and a well-known homosexual.…”
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Palaiologan renaissance painting in the Latin-occupied Aegean. Three icons from Hospitaller Leros by Kefala Konstantia

“…However, certain elements of their iconography and style point to their attribution to a Constantinopolitan painter active in the first half of the fifteenth century. …”
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Les taches de Flaubert by Arden Reed

“…This article imagines Flaubert as a painter—the pendant to thinking of Manet as a novelist. …”
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Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism by Julia Kuehn

“…This essay foregrounds the work of late nineteenth-century British painter Margaret Murray Cookesley, who may be largely forgotten today, but who in her day exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and, it seems, also managed to sell her art to an interested public. …”
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Colour as an Art of Illusion in John Lyly’s Campaspe (1584) by Armelle SABATIER

“…While the renowned painter Apelles praises his future sitter’s beauty in John Lyly’s Campaspe, act 3 scene 1 (1584), the young Campaspe rejects his flattering speech, hinting that the oily material harmoniously brushed onto a canvas is merely akin to the deceitful conceit of colores rhetorici. …”
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« Inverser la plaisanterie afin de secouer le joug » ou comment vicier un stéréotype by Jacqueline Berben

“…A California professor, a painter, an author and an occasional rancher Percival Everett appears as an iconoclast who often undermines racial and political stereotypes, ethnocentric and cultural narratives while provoking the academic establishment by making fun of its various literary theories. …”
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Saint Agnes by Manuel García “Hispaleto”: the image of the young female saint in nineteenth-century religious art in Spain by ANA BAEZA RUIZ

“…Taking as its starting point the little known painting Apparition of Saint Agnes to her parents by the Sevillian painter Manuel García “Hispaleto”, the article examines a series of interrelated historical complexities around gender and religion in mid-19th-century Spain, specifically with regard to models of femininity for girls and young women. …”
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Maurice Denis dans la Grande Guerre by Fabienne Stahl

“…In October 1917, he undertook a mission as an army painter; noting the devastation caused by war in several (unpublished) sketchbooks, showing a detailed and poignant vision of ruined bridges, castles, churches, etc.. …”
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New York, le désespoir du peintre dans The American Scene by Marie-Odile Salati

“…The chaotic welter of impressions, as well as the substitution of uniform expressionless skyscrapers for the picturesque vestiges of the past under the pressure of the economic law, make the megalopolis an eminently non pictorial object and the task of the painter of life an impossible one. Since artistic composition is ruled out, the writer undertakes to capture epiphanic moments of acute perception, when a pattern of meaning suddenly looms out of the prevailing confusion, revealing the essence of the city. …”
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Cy Twombly: Sign, Meta-Sign and Sense by Johanna Malt

“…In a 1979 article on the work of the American painter Cy Twombly, Roland Barthes writes “TW [Twombly] refers to writing (as he also often refers to culture, through words), and then he goes off somewhere else.” …”
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