The iconographic, formal and technical analysis of the decoration elements of El Castillo and La Pasiega (Cantabria) highlights a heterogeneous distribution of the main themes, with distribution logics that are very different in each of the caves. In El Castillo, the ma...

International audience; The word “muralnomad” represents somewhat of a starting point: it was coined by Le Corbusier in 1949, and was considered to be the beginning of the renewal of the tapestry. However, Le Corbusier was not the only artist who showed a strong interes...

International audience; The elements of prestigious horse harness of the Early Byzantine origin, decorated withcloisonné inlay style, have long been identified among the steppe nomads of the Post-Hunnic Period (theso-called Shipovo horizon from the second third of the f...

En choisissant de mettre à l’honneur des citoyens modèles, notamment grâce à la technique des décorations, la Troisième République a recours à une pédagogie par l’exemple pour installer durablement une culture méritocratique dans la société française. Pour cela, elle in...

International audience; The British Neolithic transition, occurring around 4000 BC, at least one millennium after the continental part of Northwest Europe, is still subject to important debate these days. Various studies suggest that the Neolithic start involved farming...

Une opération de diagnostic archéologique préventif au 10 rue des Tonneliers à Furdenheim (Bas-Rhin) a permis de découvrir une occupation de la fin du Bronze moyen (Bronze C2 de la chronologie allemande). Le mobilier céramique provenant de quatre structures permet de do...

International audience; The theorist Paul Souriau (1852-1926) was a leading figure in intellectual circles in Nancy at the turn of the 19th century. In his essays on L’esthétique du mouvement (1889), La suggestion (1893), L’imagination de l’artiste (1901) and La beauté ...

International audience; The excavations in Murlo and Acquarossa revealed the existence in Etruria between the end of the 7th and the middle of the 6th Century BC of a kind of monumental architecture that was unknown before. The model was borrowed from the the Eastern Me...

International audience; La mission ADéVol concerne les aspects techniques de la peinture murale romaine, à savoir comment le décor est réalisé et comment il s’adapte à l’espace architectural, et s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux rapports de dimensions entre les diff...

International audience; Egypt is a favorable territory like few others to the study of practices concerning the textile wrapping of the dead in Antiquity. It is a region where the preservation of textiles is more abundant than elsewhere and provides the largest collecti...