Jejich osudy jsou tak rozdílné, a přesto tak podobné. Komparace životopisných vyprávění dvou žen, které se věnují umělecké profesi by Lenka Krátká

“… Comparing two life stories (one woman-photographer, one woman-painter), the author handles the topic of limits and possibilities of art production in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic as they were experienced before and after year 1989. …”
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Phénoménologie du paysage by Françoise Dastur

“…This is what defines the painter’s attitude in regard to nature, in so far as he wants to let the things appear from themselves. …”
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From one Michael to four. A paleographical approach to the so-called ‘Astrapades’ by Kostić Elena

“…The study was prompted by a number of unanswered questions, such as: why did the painter of the Virgin Peribleptos, Michael Astrapas, suddenly begin styling himself as ‘Michael Eutychiou’ in his later works in other monuments? …”
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Alma-Tadema et le détournement de la culture savante by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…Alma-Tadema also resorted to erudition in order to offer a subversive vision of Antiquity centred on objects. The painter thus expressed the “repressed” of Victorian society—such as unorthodox forms of sexuality or dionysiac practices—thanks to the reutilisation of antique artefacts.…”
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Palaiologan renaissance painting in the Latin-occupied Aegean. Three icons from Hospitaller Leros by Kefala Konstantia

“…However, certain elements of their iconography and style point to their attribution to a Constantinopolitan painter active in the first half of the fifteenth century. …”
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Les taches de Flaubert by Arden Reed

“…This article imagines Flaubert as a painter—the pendant to thinking of Manet as a novelist. …”
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Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism by Julia Kuehn

“…This essay foregrounds the work of late nineteenth-century British painter Margaret Murray Cookesley, who may be largely forgotten today, but who in her day exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and, it seems, also managed to sell her art to an interested public. …”
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New York, le désespoir du peintre dans The American Scene by Marie-Odile Salati

“…The chaotic welter of impressions, as well as the substitution of uniform expressionless skyscrapers for the picturesque vestiges of the past under the pressure of the economic law, make the megalopolis an eminently non pictorial object and the task of the painter of life an impossible one. Since artistic composition is ruled out, the writer undertakes to capture epiphanic moments of acute perception, when a pattern of meaning suddenly looms out of the prevailing confusion, revealing the essence of the city. …”
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Cy Twombly: Sign, Meta-Sign and Sense by Johanna Malt

“…In a 1979 article on the work of the American painter Cy Twombly, Roland Barthes writes “TW [Twombly] refers to writing (as he also often refers to culture, through words), and then he goes off somewhere else.” …”
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Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Lifes and Artistic Ingenio in Early Modern Toledo by Carmen Ripollés

“…This essay brings new light on the creation and early reception of the still lifes of the Toledan painter Juan Sánchez Cotán. It focuses on Cotán’s friendship with and professional relationship to the metalworker Diego de Valdivieso and the manuscript illuminator Juan de Salazar, both of whom are recorded as being among the first owners of his still lifes. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…The study of unpublished family archives from the architect’s wife, the painter Jane de Montchenu (1857-1924) allows the writing of a sensitive biography, more able to grasp the exuberance of an idealistic architectural signature. …”
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SEM-EDX Pigment Analysis and Multi-Analytical Study of the Ground and Paint layers of Francesco Fedrigazzi's painting from Kostanje by Jelena Zagora

“…Francesco Fedrigazzi, Venetian by birth, was a painter active in Istria and Dalmatia in the late 17th and the early part of the 18th century. …”
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From “religion” to “spirituality” in socialist Bulgaria: Vanga, Nicholas Roerich, and the mystique of history by Valtchinova Galia

“…The article delves into processes unfolding in Bulgaria in the 1970s, centring around two figures: Vanga, known as the seer of Petrič, and the mystic painter Nicholas Roerich, to demonstrate the changes in the structure and meaning of categories related to religion that occurred in the period of “mature socialism”. …”
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Latin-Byzantine artistic interactions and the church of Saint Basil in Mržep (Montenegro) by Bacci Michele

“…This monument stands out for the abundance of available information on its history, including the name of the painter (Mihailo), the identity of the donor (Stefan Kalođurđević) and even the date of its construction and pictorial decoration (1451). …”
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Precisazioni per la pittura italiana del Seicento al Prado: Giuseppe Di Guido e Pasquale Chiesa by Giuseppe Porzio

“…This article contributes to the study of Neapolitan painting in the seventeenth century by discussing the attribution of two paintings in the storerooms of the Museo del Prado: a Head of a Saint, probably St Peter (P-5402), here attributed to Giuseppe Di Guido, a robust personality of precocious naturalistic extraction, also sensitive to the lessons of Ribera; and a Battle traditionally attributed to Aniello Falcone (P-139), here assigned to Pasquale Chiesa, a painter of Genoese origin—but with a figurative background steeped in Neapolitan elements—of which little is known, active in Rome in the mid-seventeenth century. …”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts by Estelle Alma Maré

“…At the age of nineteen El Greco, who was born in Crete in 1541 and was initially an icon painter in the Byzantine tradition, went to Venice. …”
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La sculpture sur le bout des doigts. Retour sur l’élaboration d’une salle pédagogique et tactile au musée Bourdelle by Colin Lemoine, Amélie Simier

“…Inaugurated in spring 2013, and installed in the former studio of the painter Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), the educational room of the Musée Bourdelle explains the complex and plural history of the making of a sculpture. …”
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Inji Efflatoun entre le pinceau et la plume : « L’exposition de la révolutionnaire » by Nadine Atallah

“…A leading figure in modern Egyptian art, Efflatoun made a name for herself with her dual career as a painter and Marxist, feminist and anti-colonialist activist. …”
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La représentation de la vie d’un maître estropié du passé au xixe siècle : L’Aleijadinho d’Henrique Bernardelli by Fábio D’Almeida

“…This article proposes to analyse the painting Aleijadinho, le sculpteur Antonio Francisco Lisboa by the Brazilian painter Henrique Bernardelli, the first and only representation known from the lifetime of a master of the Latin American colonial past in the nineteenth century. …”
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Le Musée européen des copies de Charles Blanc comme « pendant » du Louvre by Elisa Rodríguez Castresana

“…The relationship between the two institutions was profound and touched upon not only the constitution of the collection, but also the appropriation of the model of the room of masterpieces established in the Louvre by Philippe-Auguste Jeanron in 1851 at the Salon carré, and the recuperation of the system of emulation between ancient and modern painter that existed at the Louvre until 1848 when the Salon des artistes vivants was definitively evited from the Parisian museum.…”
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