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In art history, the term 'Romanesque art' distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic...
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Aux antipodes de l'obscurantisme médiéval, l'arrivée rapide et imprévisible de la Renaissance s'imposa en Europe du XIVe au XVIe siècle. En plaçant l'homme au centre, les acteurs de cet illustre mouvement changent radicalement leur vision au monde et réorientent leurs recherches esthétiques vers l'anatomie, la perspective et les sciences naturelles. Créateur de talents, la Renaissance a offert à l'histoire de l'art les plus grands noms tels...
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) is widely regarded as one of the most significant artists of the Northern Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Dürer became renowned for his mastery of various mediums, including painting, printmaking, and wood-cutting. Throughout his life, Dürer produced a vast array of works that demonstrated his technical skill and innovative vision. His art often incorporated religious and classical themes, and his use of perspective...
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La acuarela que se consideró como un medio secundario de dibujo durante mucho tiempo, disfrutó una verdadera edad de oro en Inglaterra en el siglo XVIII. Sin embargo, la acuarela en el sentido más estrecho ya se conocía como técnica utilizando colores barnizandos desde el siglo IX d.c. y ha evolucionado continuamente con el tiempo. Cada técnica lleva su ley de estilo en sí misma, y la acuarela en particular está llena de exigencias a los artistas...
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) est largement considéré comme l'un des artistes les plus importants de la Renaissance nordique.
Né à Nuremberg, en Allemagne, Dürer est devenu célèbre pour sa maîtrise de plusieurs techniques, notamment la peinture, la gravure et la gravure sur bois. Tout au long de sa vie, Dürer a produit un large éventail d'œuvres qui témoignent de ses compétences techniques et de sa vision novatrice. Son art intègre souvent...
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Mélange d'eau et de pigments permettant une grande liberté de facture, l'aquarelle sert souvent aux esquisses préparatoires. Albrecht Dürer est l'un des premiers à l'utiliser. Au XVIIIe siècle, les artistes anglais en font un médium autonome libéré des contraintes académiques. Cette évolution aura un impact considérable pour les générations suivantes. Parmi les artistes les plus célèbres ayant produit des aquarelles, on peut citer...
7) L'Art roman
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Terme entré dans l'usage courant au cours de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, l'art roman distingue, en histoire de l'art, la période qui s'étend entre le début du XIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XIIe siècle. Révélant une grande diversité d'écoles régionales, chacune démontrant ses spécificités, l'art roman, dans l'architecture comme dans la sculpture, est marqué par ses formes brutes. Par sa riche iconographie, au fil d'un texte...
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Développé à travers l'Europe pendant plus de 200 ans, l'art gothique est un mouvement qui trouve ses racines dans la puissante architecture des cathédrales du nord de la France. Délaissant la rondeur romane, les architectes commencèrent à utiliser les arcs-boutants et les voûtes en berceau brisé pour ouvrir les cathédrales à la lumière. Période de bouleversements économiques et sociaux, la période gothique vit aussi le développement...
9) Gothic Art
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Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years. Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open up cathedrals to daylight. A period of great economic and social change, the Gothic era also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary –...
10) Renaissance Art
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The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual,...
11) City Lights
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A symbol of massive crowds and solitary desires, the city holds promise for all those that pass through it. Its meandering streets, unexplored neighbourhoods and incessant noise create a landscape that captivates the observer. The lights of the city can conceal or reveal it, transforming its appearance hour by hour, offering countless facets to the passerby. While the light of morning pulls the city from its torpor and renews it for the dawning day,...
12) Bridges
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A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. Free, belonging neither to one region or another, the bridge imposes upon the landscape and defies nature. Its existence embodies the will of mankind to construct these necessary bonds between people and places. A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge, anonymous demonstration of the mastery and the durability of new techniques, is...
13) Lighthouses
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The lighthouse, an indefatigable watchman, ceaselessly guides boats to their ports. This beacon of maritime signalization has guided sailors since antiquity. The first known lighthouse appeared on the island of Pharos, and was the remarkable Lighthouse of Alexandria; however, it seems that volcanoes like Stromboli and its frequent eruptions were possibly at the origin of this invention, as the fires guided boats to their shores. Faced with the increasing...
14) Factories
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Born in the Industrial Revolution, the factory has long been considered like a monster of iron, subjugating the individual to the collective in an act of mass dehumanization. Turning away from the pure functionality for which it was built, the factory is evolving into an aesthetic space, sometimes transformed into modern lofts or a museum of contemporary art. The surprising photographs featured in this work help us rediscover the volume, purity of...
15) Camille Claudel
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Camille Claudel) le 8 décembre 1864, et morte le 19 octobre 1943, est une sculptrice et artiste peintre française. Collaboratrice, maitresse et muse du sculpteur Auguste Rodin, sœur du poète, écrivain, diplomate et académicien Paul Claudel, sa carrière est très courte s'interrompt par un internement psychiatrique et une mort quasi-anonyme. Un film (Camille Claudel, 1988) la fait sortir de l'oubli pour le grand public. Son art de la sculpture...
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Según los cánones definidos de la técnica del arte, el retrato debe ser, sobre todo, una representación fiel de su modelo. Sin embargo, esta galería de 1000 retratos ilustra cómo el género se ha transformado a lo largo de la historia, y ha demostrado ser mucho más complejo que una simple imitación de la realidad.
Más allá de la habilidad del artista, el retrato debe superar la tarea de la imitación, por justa y precisa que sea, para traducir...
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), a prominent German painter of the 19th century, was a vital figure in the Romantic movement. His artwork is characterised by its poetic and melancholic essence, displaying a profound sense of spirituality and transcendence. In his paintings, he masterfully blended external nature depictions with deep inner symbolism. His often desolate landscapes and grand architecture evoke a yearning for peace, solitude, and spiritual...
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Les marines d'Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) ont fait sa renommée en Russie, son pays natal o il était peintre de cour pour Nicolas Ier, mais n'ont que peu dépassé ces frontières. Maître du Sublime, il a fait de l'océan le sujet principal de son OEuvre. Tantt déchaîné et cataclysmique, tantt calme et apaisant, l'élément marin constitue autant d'allégories de la condition humaine. Comme Turner, dont il connaissait et admirait le travail,...
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Au cours de l'histoire, nombreuses sont les guerres qui changèrent le paysage politique et culturel du monde. Source de bouleversements, de destructions et de violences, elles contribuèrent néanmoins à l'évolution de la création artistique. En effet, malgré les événements traumatisants qu'elles engendrent, les guerres inspirent les artistes depuis toujours. Ces derniers immortalisent ces moments dramatiques en des oeuvres qui sont autant...
20) Dürer
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Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper than for his paintings. With both, the skill of his...
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