Les techniques de sculpture dans l’Antiquité tardive et le haut Moyen Âge by Thierry Gregor, Anne-Bénédicte Mérel-Brandenburg

“…By comparing various works from the Louvre and the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers with the conditions of use of the tools, sometimes particular and original, the paper will describe in detail these specific techniques and the approach to the stone material, always ingenious, of the engravers, sculptors, stone cutters or simply the executors during this pivotal period.…”
Get full text

La restauration de My Flower Bed, de Yayoi Kusama by Camille Morineau, Patricia Dal-Prà

“…Another particularity in this case is the private sponsoring which enabled the Musée National d’Art Moderne to finance a heavy restoration of a masterpiece of the 60’s.…”
Get full text

Label-free (fluorescence-free) sensing of a single DNA molecule on DNA origami using a plasmon-enhanced WGM sensor by Ghamari Shahin, Chiarelli Germán, Kołątaj Karol, Subramanian Sivaraman, Acuna Guillermo P., Vollmer Frank

Get full text

Le « jonglage » des visiteurs entre œuvres et cartels : de l’étude d’un comportement à l’application d’un principe muséographique. by Anne-Sophie Grassin

“…This is why, twenty years after its updating and definition, object-label juggling has guided the redesign of the written mediation of a national museum in Paris, the Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge, which was closed for twenty months for the renovation of its buildings and museographic itinerary. …”
Get full text

Un problème d’obsolescence : la substitution de tubes fluorescents sur deux œuvres lumino-cinétiques de Nino Calos by Olivier Steib

“…This article retraces the questions asked of a restorer given the task of treating an obsolescent lighting system during the restoration of two Mobiles lumineux (Luminous Modules) by Nino Calos (1926-1990) in the collection of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Amongst other questions, these include the methodology, the techniques of intervention and the decision strategies employed in the study and restoration of thees lumino-kinetic works of art.…”
Get full text

L’atome Logo du Centre des Sciences de Montréal by Tiphaine Léon

“…Son mandat questionne la notion d’objet phare, puisque les objets exposés, créés pour le musée, sont les médiateurs permettant l’accession d’un savoir ; ils n’ont rien d’emblématique. …”
Get full text

Un saltuarius dévot de Jupiter Optimus Maximus dans le Mâconnais by Monique Dondin-Payre, Hélène Chew

“…The musée d’Archéologie nationale at Saint-Germain-en-Laye has just acquired a bronze wheel-bearing Jupiter with an inscribed base, found at Rontecolon in the locality of Cenves (Rhône). …”
Get full text

Une nouvelle partie de la collection archéologique d’Alcide d’Orbigny retrouvée ? by Pascal Riviale

“…The recent discovery of a small set of prehispanic Peruvian ceramics in the storage area of the musée Carnavalet, which might be linked to the scientific material brought by Alcide d’Orbigny from his long expedition to South America (1826-1833), put us back on a track we had abandoned for a long time. …”
Get full text

What’s in a name? Le conservateur-restaurateur : une définition by Clémentine Bollard

“…Le conservateur-restaurateur: une définition”, held on April 11, 2024 at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of the text ‘Le conservateur-restaurateur: une définition de la profession’ at the 7th ICOM-CC triennial in Copenhagen. …”
Get full text

À propos d’une lame de poignard inscrite au nom d’un roi Menkheperrê : notes sur un objet singulier conservé au Louvre (AF 13446) by Renaud Pietri

“…There is a remarkable object, bearing the accession number AF 13446, in the reserve collection of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Musée du Louvre. Inscribed with the name of a certain King Menkheperre, it takes the general shape of a dagger blade. …”
Get full text

Être et paraître dans Miss Brown De Vernon Lee by Catherine Delyfer

“…Through the description of the career of Anne Brown, this anti-Bildungsroman particularly exposed the social, political, intellectual and sexual exploitation of female models and muses.…”
Get full text

Courbet, Catlin, and the Exploitation of Native Americans by Jane M. Roos

“…This essay interrogates connections between Gustave Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio (1855; Musée d’Orsay) and the visual culture of American Indian performance in Paris. …”
Get full text

What’s in a name? The conservator-restorer: a definition by Clémentine Bollard

“…The conservator-restorer: a definition”, held on April 11, 2024 at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of the definition of the profession “The conservator: a definition of the profession” during icom-cc’s 7th triennial held in copenhagen in 1984. …”
Get full text

Parcours d’une œuvre culturelle lobi du Burkina Faso : le bitebo d’Henri Labouret by Saga Ouiya

“…It was against a backdrop of instability, characterised by revolts, resistance and so-called pacification campaigns, that Labouret acquired the bitebo and later gave it to the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro. The object is a true reflection of the cultural identity of the Lobi people. …”
Get full text

« Le fauteuil d’amour » du prince de Galles : la légende à l’épreuve des archives by Michèle Mariez

“…A study of the Soubrier archives donated to the library of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2017 by the current descendants of the house has yielded previously unpublished information that sheds light on the history of this exceptional piece of furniture.…”
Get full text

De la documentation aux Humanités numériques : mettre en ligne un fonds documentaire du XXe siècle by Arnaud Millereux, Vincent Rousseau

“…The documentation compiled by the Recueil général des monuments sculptés en France pendant le Haut Moyen âge research teams is kept in the Sculpture Department of the Musée du Louvre. There are plans to transform it into a database. …”
Get full text

Construire le goût pour la Renaissance française : les pérégrinations des dames de Germain Pilon au xixe siècle by Justine Gain

“…The aim of this study is to analyse the peregrinations of the group during the nineteenth century, as well as the various practices that enabled it to be exhibited in three institutions that were themselves key players in the history of collections: the Musée des Monuments Français, the Louvre and the History Galleries of Versailles.…”
Get full text

Edme Antoine Durand (1768-1835) : un bâtisseur de collections by Louise Detrez

“…One of them was sold in its entirety in 1825 to make up the core of the Musée Charles X, the other dispersed at public sale in 1836 after its owner’s death.…”
Get full text

De l’aménagement des circuits à la réinterprétation des lieux visités : invention d’un espace-temps touristique en pays lobi burkinabè by Bertrand Royer

“…En pays lobi burkinabè, mise en tourisme et patrimonialisation dessinent un schéma régional sur le mode du « à faire – à voir ». Du musée aux villages, les échanges entre protagonistes apparaissent de plus en plus formels et standardisés. …”
Get full text

Queen Replacement in Dequeened Colonies of the Argentine Ant Iridomyrmex Humilis (Mayr) by Luc Passera, Laurent Keller, Jean-Pierre Suzzoni

Get full text