« I could not do without medieval Christianity » : transmission et mysticisme dans The Hours de Burne-Jones by Nadezda Seliverstova

“…This analysis makes a comparative study of Byzantine art and Pre-Raphaelite painting, and examines the place of Orthodox art in Burne-Jones’s painting.…”
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« Paysages avec figures absentes » : La peinture d’Elsa Maldiney by Éliane Escoubas

“…Elsa Maldiney's painting offers several stages. One of them, among the first ones, up until 1960 without a doubt, is probably the one of painting landscapes – but landscapes which are not landscape-shows but landscape-milieus engendered by the march of an invisible walker. …”
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Pluie, vapeur et vitesse chez Turner by Muriel Adrien

“…The title of Turner’s painting, Rain, Steam and Speed, encapsulates the thematic description of a vast number of his works, but also evokes his swift pseudo-blot technique, which ventures to collaborate with the random laws of the elements and painting material. …”
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Représenter « avec » le rite : réflexivité et danse rituelle dans un tableau murui-muina by Oscar Ivan Garcia

“…Analyzing a painting of the Amazonian painter Brus Rubio Churay dedicated to the murui-muina ritual dances, I will show the particular link that the artist establishes between art and ritual: his painting is less a representation of the ritual and more a representation “with” the ritual. …”
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Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf: an Artist and a Critic? by Liliane Louvel

“…That of the supposed discourse of the image, and of the so-called ‘reticence’ of painting or of its silence as acknowledged by Woolf. …”
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Théories géologiques et représentations du paysage dans la première moitié du xixe siècle by Alexis Drahos

“…From the final years of the eighteenth century, Geology enjoys a rapid development whose consequences won’t take long to react on the landscape painting of the time. Leaving from then on the study for the outer world, Naturalists set to look for clues on the ground to understand the past of our planet and particularly his old age. …”
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Gruppenbild mit Dame: »Au juste poids véritable balance« (Amiens, 1518/19), Gerechtigkeitsfiguration im Licht politischer Marienfrömmigkeit by Erk Volkmar Heyen

“… The article explores a religious aspect of the genesis of the figure of ›Lady Justice‹ (with sword and scales), describing and interpreting a painting that owes its existence to a local literary association dedicated to the veneration of the Virgin Mary. …”
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Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

“…The aestheticization of space in the orientalist painting clearly shows the decoy of representation and lets the reader have a glimpse of the reality of colonialism through the cracks of the painting. …”
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Texte, trame, signe : les ficelles de l’art selon Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…The aim of this article is to question or reassert this view by uncovering the Dantean subtext that informs the 1874 version of the painting and deciphering the coded message it contains. …”
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Chrudimský Kristus a zázračné souřadnice jeho barokní legendy by Pavel Panoch

“…The proposed paper also deals with several other baroque sculptures and paintings, influnced by the picture of Chrudim's St. …”
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„Aleksander I jako król polski” pędzla Niccoli Montiego (1819) – malarstwo portretowe w służbie propagandy Królestwa Kongresowego by Mikołaj Getka-Kenig

“…In terms of its content, the painting is a product of the political discourse of the time, representing the authorities’ stance on the Kingdom’s status as a “resurrected” Polish state. …”
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Victor Brauner. Atrapulsion, peinture à la caséine sur toile présentant un important réseau de craquelures en cuvette by Cristina Cojocaru Pingeot

“…Atrapulsion is a 1938 casein paint on canvas by Victor Brauner. The painting has a severe end extensive network of opened drying cracks with lifted paint and many losses on edges. …”
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De la restauration à l’exposition : à la recherche de sens et de cohérence by Christine Benoit, Paméla Grimaud, Claude Badet, Elisabeth Mognetti, Roland May

“…This article focuses on the gap existing between the restoration of a painting and its presentation to the general public. …”
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That Unforgettable Day--The Great Tokyo Air Raid through Drawings あの日を忘れない・描かれた東京大空襲 by Sumida Local Culture Resource Center (墨田郷土文化資料館), Bret Fisk

“…These memorable paintings depicting the Great Tokyo Air Raid of March 10, 1945 were featured in a special exhibit hosted by the Sumida Local Culture Resource Center in 2004. …”
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Trompeuses séductions. La Chute d’Icare des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique by Dominique Allart, Christina Currie

“…The analysis of a cross-section of the paint layer and radiocarbon dating of the canvas suggest that it is an old copy. …”
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Charles Sterling (1901-1991) et la pratique de l’exposition temporaire : itinéraire d’un catalographe privilégié du musée du Louvre by Marie Tchernia-Blanchard

“…Famous for his contribution to the rediscovery of medieval painting and for his work on seventeenth-century French painting, Charles Sterling (1901–1991) is also considered by critics as one of the greatest exhibition makers of the twentieth century and his name is still closely associated to some of the most eminent events organised by the French national museums between the 1930s and 1960s. …”
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Pater and Contemporary Visual Art by J.-B. Bullen

“…He never wrote at any length about nineteenth century painters or painting and seems to have confined his interest to literature. …”
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L’univers esthétique des photographies de Cy Twombly et le renouvellement du regard sur son œuvre by Chiara Agradi

“…The ceiling painted by the artist in the room of Greek and Roman antiquities in the Louvre bears witness to his interest in the dialogue between photography, painting and American culture, and was consistent with his aesthetic experiments, particularly regarding his fascination for Mediterranean culture. …”
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La Chute d’Icare des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique réattribuée par l'examen de laboratoire by Léopold Kockaert

“…Bruegel the Elder cannot have painted this canvas ; and more recently by the publication of a book by D. …”
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An ‘extraordinary change’ in the Climate: The Transformative Power of Impressionism in George Moore’s Art Criticism by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Oscar Wilde’s essay ‘The Decay of Lying’ introduces the idea of the transformative power of Impressionist painting, ‘this extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London’. …”
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