Exoticism of the East at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and its echoes by Мария Нащокина

“…The article studies Russian examples of the use of such forms (Narzan Carbonic Baths in Kislovodsk), as well as the decoration associated with this exotic trend (reliefs of elephants in a guest house in Samara and their sculptures at Samara merchant K. Golovkin’ summer house). …”
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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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Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues by Sandrine Agusta-Boularot, Raphaël Golosetti

“…The architectural study of the fragments and comparison with other sculptural elements from southern Gaul suggest they date approximately to the turn of the millenium. …”
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Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving by Paolo Fortis

“…By analysing the making of wooden anthropomorphic figures and the Kuna exegesis of it, along with some comparative examples from other Amerindian societies, this article argues for an understanding of the sculptural representation of the human figure as an instantiation of alterity. …”
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Les statues de lions des églises romanes, des gardiens de pierre entre espace profane et espace sacré by Sylvain Chardonnet

“…As Romanesque churches reused ancient sculptures, they also copied their design to reaffirm the buildings’ ancestral character. …”
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Le Tigre, le Louvre et l’échange de connaissances archéologiques visuelles entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux alentours de 1850 by Mirjam Brusius

“…When in the mid 1850s Assyrian sculptures excavated by a French delegation got lost in the river Tigris all what remained was a set of drawings that the London artist William Boutcher had made during a British expedition in Mesopotamia. …”
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Early Buddhism and the Greeks by Richard Stoneman

“…Some scholars have argued that key elements of Buddhism, including the Four Noble Truths, and the doctrine of no self, only arose much later; but archaeological evidence, such as the sculptures of Sanchi, indicate that key doctrines, as enshrined in the jatakas, were circulating in the Indo-Greek period in India. …”
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Kristus ukřižovaný na palmě, „locus tristis“ a emblematika 17. století by Pavel Panoch

“…John of Nepomuk in Pecka town in the Eastern Bohemia. The unusual sculptural motif of Christ crucified on a palm leaf, which is held in the St. …”
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Facade decoration in the architecture of Dragiša Brašovan and Milan Zloković by Novaković Aleksa

“…In line with this, many of the leading architects of this period, including Dragiša Brašovan (1887-1965) and Milan Zloković (1898-1965), incorporated facade plastic and sculptural decoration into their works. The stylistic development of ornamentation was conditioned by Academicist and Classicist tendencies on the one hand, and the emergence and popularization of Art Deco and Modernism on the other. …”
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I will not find this image beautiful I will not find this image beautiful I will not find this image beautiful (An unfinished monument) by Omar Mismar

“…With naming the dead, the notion of a monument emerges, reinforced by the sculptural quality of the smoke cloud. The resulting video is entitled I will not find this image beautiful, I will not find this image beautiful, I will not find this image beautiful (An unfinished monument) (11h 43min). …”
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Nouveau regard sur l’hôpital de Semur-en-Auxois à travers ses archives du XVIIIe siècle by Pierre Pinon

“…The archival sources show us that the building materials were of local origin too, but the masons and stone-cutters came from the Limoges region. The sculptures of the façade of the chapel are by Vincent François and the entrance grill for the courtyard was designed in 1771 by Bénigne Marion.…”
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La création franco-chinoise dans sa matérialité. Le symbolisme dans l’œuvre plastique de Xuefeng Chen et son rapport à la matière by Guillaume Thouroude

“…While her embroideries stage the conflict between the pleasure of lightness and the suffering of rupture, the ceramic sculptures oscillate between a desire for proliferation and the acknowledgement of a fundamental human fragility. …”
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Les notions de fūkei, de ba et de fukkō au cœur d’un projet collectif artistique by Catherine Grout

“…Composed of two landscape sculptures, the work was integral to the process of forming and establishing a community.…”
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Les Portraits nationaux à l’Exposition universelle parisienne de 1878 : un projet de galerie historique by Stéphane Paccoud

“…The aim of the National Portraits exhibition was to bring together original effigies of French historical figures from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century, presenting paintings, drawings, miniatures, sculptures and tapestries. Philippe de Chennevières, then director of fine arts, initiated the project and entrusted the Inventory Commission of French Art Treasures with its organization. …”
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La préfecture du Val-d’Oise édifiée par Henry Bernard à Cergy-Pontoise by Léo Noyer Duplaix, Emmanuelle Philippe

“…Embellished by facing sculptures by François Stahly and decorated by Joseph-André Motte, this Prefecture was an attempt at a typological renewal. …”
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The Notions of Fūkei, Ba, and Fukkō in a Community Art Project by Catherine Grout

“…Composed of two landscape sculptures, the work was integral to the process of forming and establishing a community.…”
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Visualizing the change of “viewpoints” in 3D virtual art exhibition by Kazuki Matsumoto, Takeshi Okada

“…In the experiment, we recorded the exploration of sculptures in virtual spaces of 317 participants using a newly developed system (Virtual Exhibition Space for Tracking and Analyzing system). …”
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Imaging the Climate Crisis. The Ceramic Art of Horie, Galloway, Snider, and Rhymer-Zwierciadlowska by Mary Ann STEGGLES

“…Julianna Zwierciadlowska-Rhymer’s sculptural installations explore society’s relationship with food. …”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…Exploring New Brutalism’s criticism of the established ethos of International Style architecture, the first part of this paper will highlight the movement’s tendency towards replacing the painterly with the sculptural, and this in reference to the contemporary interest in monolithic architecture. …”
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Consolidants in Salt-Weathered Masonry: Retention and Efficiency of DAP and TEOS by V A Anupama, Enrico Sassoni, Manu Santhanam

“… Consolidants are widely used to improve grain cohesion in monuments and sculptures under degradation. The porosity and pore size distribution of the substrate and the consolidant properties play a pivotal role in the efficient absorption and retention of the compounds. …”
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