Indigènes, Africains et Afrodescendants dans l’œuvre de Frans Post by Bartira Ferraz Barbosa, Natália Moragas

“…This article concerns the representation of Indigenous People, African and African Descendants in the work of Frans Post, a xviith century Dutch painter who lived in Recife. The paintings, drawings and engravings we selected for this study refer to different periods of Post’s work. …”
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Paul Baudoüin, Georges Pradelle et l’association « la Fresque » by Marie Monfort

“…To allow his students to paint on walls and to work, the painter funded with Georges Pradelle a society of painters in fresco : “La fresque”. …”
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Machines de théâtre et théâtres-machines des années 1960-1970 by Sandrine Dubouilh

“…In 1961, at a conference held at Royaumont, the painter and set designer Rene Allio announced a principle which has become a rule, that of the theatre ‘as an instrument’. …”
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Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Lifes and Artistic Ingenio in Early Modern Toledo by Carmen Ripollés

“…This essay brings new light on the creation and early reception of the still lifes of the Toledan painter Juan Sánchez Cotán. It focuses on Cotán’s friendship with and professional relationship to the metalworker Diego de Valdivieso and the manuscript illuminator Juan de Salazar, both of whom are recorded as being among the first owners of his still lifes. …”
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Jusepe de Ribera in the Kingdom of Valencia and the workshop of Juan Sariñena: the formation of an artist by DEBORAH FELLER

“…Clues to his early training exist within the Valencian cultural and social milieus of the period, where the Archbishop of Valencia, Juan de Ribera, acquired works from Italy and the Low Countries, and the city’s official painter, the Aragonese Juan Sariñena (1545-1619), fulfilled commissions for the ecclesiastical and civic authorities. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…The study of unpublished family archives from the architect’s wife, the painter Jane de Montchenu (1857-1924) allows the writing of a sensitive biography, more able to grasp the exuberance of an idealistic architectural signature. …”
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Caminhos históricos sob o olhar de Rugendas: a ligação entre Rio de Janeiro e Minas Gerais by Patrícia Gomes da Silveira

“…The main source for the construction of this narrative are the iconographic records of the German painter, Johann Moritz Rugendas. In the early 1820s, on his journey from Rio de Janeiro to Minas Gerais as an artist for the Langsdorff Expedition, Rugendas documented landscapes, nature, and territory along this path. …”
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SEM-EDX Pigment Analysis and Multi-Analytical Study of the Ground and Paint layers of Francesco Fedrigazzi's painting from Kostanje by Jelena Zagora

“…Francesco Fedrigazzi, Venetian by birth, was a painter active in Istria and Dalmatia in the late 17th and the early part of the 18th century. …”
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From “religion” to “spirituality” in socialist Bulgaria: Vanga, Nicholas Roerich, and the mystique of history by Valtchinova Galia

“…The article delves into processes unfolding in Bulgaria in the 1970s, centring around two figures: Vanga, known as the seer of Petrič, and the mystic painter Nicholas Roerich, to demonstrate the changes in the structure and meaning of categories related to religion that occurred in the period of “mature socialism”. …”
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Latin-Byzantine artistic interactions and the church of Saint Basil in Mržep (Montenegro) by Bacci Michele

“…This monument stands out for the abundance of available information on its history, including the name of the painter (Mihailo), the identity of the donor (Stefan Kalođurđević) and even the date of its construction and pictorial decoration (1451). …”
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John Piper et Benjamin Britten : le renouveau de l’opéra anglais et ses décors by Sophie Aymès

“…As an abstract artist turned architectural painter, he created a pastoral vision of the national heritage whose preservation had become necessary. …”
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Precisazioni per la pittura italiana del Seicento al Prado: Giuseppe Di Guido e Pasquale Chiesa by Giuseppe Porzio

“…This article contributes to the study of Neapolitan painting in the seventeenth century by discussing the attribution of two paintings in the storerooms of the Museo del Prado: a Head of a Saint, probably St Peter (P-5402), here attributed to Giuseppe Di Guido, a robust personality of precocious naturalistic extraction, also sensitive to the lessons of Ribera; and a Battle traditionally attributed to Aniello Falcone (P-139), here assigned to Pasquale Chiesa, a painter of Genoese origin—but with a figurative background steeped in Neapolitan elements—of which little is known, active in Rome in the mid-seventeenth century. …”
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Keats et de Kooning : Pour un romantisme expressionniste abstrait ou la mise en image de l’épitaphe by Caroline Bertonèche

“…A writer and a reader, an indolent poet and an ‘action painter’, they are, above all, or aspire to be, especially with regard to this mysterious conception and meaningful depiction of an epitaph, immortal artists as well as enlightened visionaries.…”
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La distanciation dans l’œuvre régionaliste de Grant Wood comme moyen de mise en échec du nationalisme by Kamila Benayada

“…Regionalist painter Grant Wood’s works complied with much of the regionalist ideology as defined by critic Thomas Craven with its nationalism and its rejection of European Modernism. …”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts by Estelle Alma Maré

“…At the age of nineteen El Greco, who was born in Crete in 1541 and was initially an icon painter in the Byzantine tradition, went to Venice. …”
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La sculpture sur le bout des doigts. Retour sur l’élaboration d’une salle pédagogique et tactile au musée Bourdelle by Colin Lemoine, Amélie Simier

“…Inaugurated in spring 2013, and installed in the former studio of the painter Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), the educational room of the Musée Bourdelle explains the complex and plural history of the making of a sculpture. …”
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Gawain de Harrison Birtwistle : un opéra (extra-) national ? by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Other influences are shown through his translation into music of aesthetic ideas inspired by the great German painter Paul Klee and through his adaptation of elements taken from Greek tragedy. …”
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« An Active and Defining Presence » : Le visible et le lisible dans l’œuvre collaborative de Robert Creeley by Barbara Montefalcone

“…Through the analysis of “Inside my Head” (Anamorphosis, 1997), one of Creeley’s many collaborations with the Italian painter Francesco Clemente, we will try to show the specificity of the poet’s relationship with the visual. …”
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Inji Efflatoun entre le pinceau et la plume : « L’exposition de la révolutionnaire » by Nadine Atallah

“…A leading figure in modern Egyptian art, Efflatoun made a name for herself with her dual career as a painter and Marxist, feminist and anti-colonialist activist. …”
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La représentation de la vie d’un maître estropié du passé au xixe siècle : L’Aleijadinho d’Henrique Bernardelli by Fábio D’Almeida

“…This article proposes to analyse the painting Aleijadinho, le sculpteur Antonio Francisco Lisboa by the Brazilian painter Henrique Bernardelli, the first and only representation known from the lifetime of a master of the Latin American colonial past in the nineteenth century. …”
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