Philippe Forestier : Floral photography and the decorative arts in the second half of the 19th century. Throughout Europe, beginning in 1850, botanical subjects furnished new models for the decorative arts and, from that time, the photography of flowers and plants took ...

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...

Marius Vachon (1858-1928) was a journalist who played an important part in the late nineteenth-century French debates about the art industries. His positions were at first liberal ones but he moved on to a defence of the French industrial arts that finished up as a blin...

The vicissitudes of the Market for Lacquer work in Paris during the 17th century. The commerce of lacquer work illustrates the passionate aspect of the artistic exchange established between the Far East, especially China and Japan, and the West, mainly Holland, England ...

Cubism, decoration and tradition around 1912. The generation of artists who were active in France during the 1880s was particularly interested in promoting the value of the decorative arts and several painters were involved in the creation of decorative ensembles. The i...

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...

Local traditions and « scholarly » art in the 13th century : the monumental decoration of the church of Chissey-sur-Loue. The monumental decoration of the church of Chissey-sur-Loue (Jura) discloses the dichotomy between a « scholarly » art, open to the customs of the d...

Claude-Aimé Chenavard (1794-1838) : decorator and ornementalist. Although he is largely forgotten today, during his lifetime Claude-Aimé Chenavard enjoyed an exceptional reputation as a designer of ornaments for industry, a profession which foreshadows that of our conte...

Unpublished drawings about the funerals of the Grand Condé by Pierre Paul Sevin (1687). Conde died on December 11 1686. For this nationwide event, two designers, Jean I Berain and Pierre Paul Sevin, conceived drawings of projects for funeral ornaments at Notre-Dame of P...

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...