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; The aim of this study was to examine and document the wall paintings in theChâteau de Germolles. Situated in Burgundy, France, Germolles is the best preservedresidence of the Dukes of Burgundy and was listed as a monument ofnational importance in...

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 ...

AbstractThe Grotte Cosquer (southeastern France) is a Paleolithic painted cave only accessible by a deep-water dive. The cave has yielded numerous Paleolithic engravings and drawings, which were produced from wood charcoal. This article presents new radiocarbon dates ob...