Le tribunal figural de la fiction expressionniste by Sylvain Louet

“…We compare this ethical film to works by expressionist painters or engravers to examine how it judges its main protagonists and the evoked society, considering the Christian morality and that promoted by capitalism. …”
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Le Musée du Barreau de Paris, histoire et avenir by Basile Ader, Cindy Geraci

“…Heirs to the lawyers of the Paris Parliament, the Parisian lawyers have built up a significant heritage, consisting of books, works of art, paintings, sculptures, engravings, medals, manuscripts, etc., enriched over the centuries. …”
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Les sceaux des abbés et du convent de la Trinité de Fécamp, XIIe-début du XIVe siècle by Michaël Bloche

“…The seals of the Abbots and the convent of the Trinity of Fécamp, interesting from many points of view, in particular certain "contre-sceaux" derived from reused engraved gemstones from antiquity, have never been the subject of any long term study. …”
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Indigènes, Africains et Afrodescendants dans l’œuvre de Frans Post by Bartira Ferraz Barbosa, Natália Moragas

“…The paintings, drawings and engravings we selected for this study refer to different periods of Post’s work. …”
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Un autel miniature consacré à une déesse locale chez les Rèmes by Anthony Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, William Van Andringa

“…The discovery context prevents us from identifying the status of this cult place dedicated to Dagiata or Agiata (a domestic temple or a place dedicated to the local genius loci ?), but the engraved inscription on the altar allows us to add a new deity in the Remorum pantheon. …”
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Los mapas de la Nueva Geografía de Colombia de Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1901-1902) by David Alejandro Ramírez Palacios

“…The works of the Colombian geographer, cartographer and historian Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1860-1914) —and his cartographic works in particular—, is beginning to be known and valued by Colombian and international historiography. His maps, wood-engraved, sum up more than two hundreds, most of them distributed between the final edition of his Nueva Geografía de Colombia (1901-1902) and his Atlas completo de geografía colombiana (1906-1910). …”
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Innovation et système des brevets aux États-Unis : un modèle en question(s) by Martine Azuelos

“…In an effort to promote economic growth by stimulating innovation, the Founding Fathers engraved the concept of patent in the Constitution of the United States by granting Congress the power “to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” …”
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Recriar o espaço de voz do poeta: a memória entre dois mundos by Joseilda de Sousa Diniz

“…Poet, singer, reciter, engraver, who, after a tragic illness in the vocal cords became a researcher and a writer, José Alves Sobrinho was one of the main nomad poetsingers on Northeast Brazil. …”
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Svědectví „starých obrazů“: kulturní krajina ideální a reálná by Robert Šimůnek

“…This is true for 15th-century murals, 17th-century copper engravings, and 19th-century lithographs. The present article, despite (unavoidably) being based on a series of micro-examinations delineated by time, territory, and relations to individuals, families, or institutions, takes on the characteristics of an aggregated work. …”
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La Montagne et la Manière Noire by Maurice Levy

“…The object of this paper is to liken a number of set subjects typical of Gothic fiction to Turner’s use of the mezzotint technique in his Liber Studiorum. His engraved plates representing the St Gothard pass or Mont Cenis look as though they were illustrations of a number of passages of The Mysteries of Udolpho in which Ann Radcliffe describes mountains. …”
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Blindness and Design: Kneass’ Philadelphia Magazine for the Blind (1899) by Vanessa Warne

“…This essay situates these woodcuts within the context of late-Victorian celebrity, the aesthetic revival in woodcut and wood-engraved illustration, and the increasing presence of the authorial portrait in the age of mechanical reproduction. …”
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Freak Shows on the Page: Defining ‘criminanimality’ in Newgate Fiction (1830-1847) by Hubert Malfray

“…Through Newgate texts and engravings, the animal metaphor first appears as an ideological tool used to deprecate vile human beings who disrupted the law, linking their misdeeds to their apparent savagery. …”
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Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation (1902) by Sarah Parker

“…This essay situates these woodcuts within the context of late-Victorian celebrity, the aesthetic revival in woodcut and wood-engraved illustration, and the increasing presence of the authorial portrait in the age of mechanical reproduction. …”
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Du baromètre au piolet, cent cinquante ans de visions britanniques de la montagne by Michel Tailland

“…Throughout the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, daring British travellers kept exploring and conquering mountain ranges up to then mostly "terra incognita Many of them, from William Brockedon, Edward Whymper, John Auldjo or Albert Smith not only wrote about them but also sketched or painted their landscapes thanks to their multi-faceted talents as writers, painters or engravers. This paper aims at analyzing the changes in the different points of view of a few generations of these artist/travellers who left an everlasting influence on contemporary visions of mountains. …”
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Carmen de fundatione, ruina et restauratione inclyti monasterii gemmeticensis by Pierre Bouet

“…The poem, in dactylic hexameters, describes the foundation of the abbey of Jumièges by Abbot Philibert, its destruction by the vikings, and its restoration by Duke William Longsword in 940.According to the XVIIIth-century manuscript the poem had been engraved on copper plates at the cloister’s entry. …”
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Valorizar a geodiversidade e proteger os serviços geossistêmicos na Região de Carajás by Abraão Levi dos Santos Mascarenhas, Maria Rita Vidal

“…To this end, the elaboration of thematic cartography was carried out in the delimitation of distinct geomorphological units: Plateaus, Lowered Plateaus, Araguaia Depression and Araguaia Fluvial Plain, and the aerial photogrammetric survey made it possible to identify and characterize areas with high potential for geomorphosites: (1) Mirante; (2) Engravings, and (3) Pedra Riscada. The results show the vast potential of geodiversity with scientific, educational, scenic, and cultural value. …”
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‘Larks in Season’: The Comic Almanack (1835–54) by Brian Maidment

“…With a list of contributors that included Thackeray, Horace Mayhew, and Gilbert à Beckett and centrally dependent on both etched and wood engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank and H. …”
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Familly farms, graves, and belonging: migrations and the politics of belonging among Basotho in colonial Zimbabwe by Joseph Mujere

“…Basotho’s memories of migrations and displacements are arguably engraved in the landscape, graves and their family farms. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…Last but not least, the eponymous character of the story and mouthpiece of the author’s philosophical views, the magical North Wind, whose sole mention immediately calls to mind the most inspired and best-known engravings of the whole series, deserved to be studied at some length, which is done under the heading : You Cannot Barre Love Oute.…”
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Proserpine upon the Coin: Melville’s Quest for Greek Beauty in “Syra” by Bruno Monfort

“…The past is thus reconstructed as pure aesthetic enjoyment of life materialized by a coin engraved with the head of Proserpine, a hint at Winckelmann’s conception of what beauty was like when experienced by the Ancient Greeks. …”
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