International audience; Faced with the wars of religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many French Protestant artists chose exile to save their lives, preserve their freedom of religion and, more rarely, to put their art at the service of their faith. Their...

The central object of this thesis is the “Persévérance” Collection, a group of pieces that were stolen from Afro-Brazilian houses of worship in Maceió, capital of the state of Alagoas, in the northeast of Brazil. The pillaging of these objects occurred in an episode of ...