The « arabesque genre » : nature and diffusion of the models in the Parisian interior decor, 1760-1790. Among the main inspiration sources of the neo-classical arabesque decorations — Antiquity, Renaissance, and the ornemanists miscellanies — it is difficult to distingu...

The iconographic, formal and technical analysis of the decoration elements of El Castillo and La Pasiega (Cantabria) highlights a heterogeneous distribution of the main themes, with distribution logics that are very different in each of the caves. In El Castillo, the ma...

En choisissant de mettre à l’honneur des citoyens modèles, notamment grâce à la technique des décorations, la Troisième République a recours à une pédagogie par l’exemple pour installer durablement une culture méritocratique dans la société française. Pour cela, elle in...

À partir d’une étude croisée de la littérature savante sur la polychromie antique et industrielle et de données issues d’une enquête de terrain sur une architecture contemporaine qui prend ses distances avec les couleurs fonctionnelles de l’architecture moderniste, cet ...

Les fouilles programmées réalisées à l’abbaye de Morimond entre 2004 et 2011 ont livré un lot de carreaux de pavement exhumés dans divers niveaux de remblais issus de bâtiments du quartier des hôtes. Les cisterciens de Morimond, comme c’est l’usage dans les autres résid...

International audience; Through a detailed examination of a sample from both towns, this paper presents a joint study of houses in Rome and Ostia in the 2nd c. AD. Taking into account the plan, circulation axes, architectural structures and decoration, the type of analy...

International audience; Over recent decades various studies have permitted a reassessment of the role of textile metaphors and analogies in the development of architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s. This historiographic renewal, which relates to the c...

During the eighteenth century, the powerful Kingdom of Dergé in eastern Tibet became a major political, economic, and religious center that gave birth to one of the most important printing houses in the Tibetan world. Written documentation about the construction of the ...

International audience; For six years, an interdisciplinary team carried out the study of a Bronze Age underground network. This program has been labelled by the Institute of Ecology and Environment of the French Research Council (CNRS), who wants to promote new methodo...

Although understanding the emergence of agriculture in West Africa has recently benefited from major advances, the reasons for its fast diffusion south of the Sahara remain to be explained. We propose here a reconstruction of African agriculture expansion built from a s...