"A unique combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, this is author David Downie's irreverent quest to uncover why Paris is the world's most romantic city--and has been for over 150 years. Abounding in secluded, atmospheric parks, artists' studios, cafes, restaurants and streets little changed since the 1800s, Paris exudes romance. The art and architecture, the cityscape, riverbanks, and the unparalleled quality of daily life are part of the...

Dans la salle Mollien du Louvre, les naufragés du radeau de la Méduse de Géricault s'enfoncent dans la nuit africaine. A l'arrière du radeau, le cadavre d'Hector de David, les ctes saillantes et la barbe naissante, a la tête renversée. Allongé en travers, l'Endymion de Girodet a troqué ses sandales à lanières pour des chaussettes tombantes et son père qui passe un bras autour de son corps a l'air résigné du Marcus Sextus de Guérin. Comme...

Founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the English painter Sir John Everett Millais was a principal figure of nineteenth century British art. Along with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he confronted the art establishment with a daring challenge to ignore 500 years of history and the corrupting influence of Raphael. A remarkable range of paintings sought a bold return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of the early Renaissance....

Le vaste mouvement de sensibilité et d'idées appelé « romantisme » a embrassé tant de domaines divers (histoire, politique, réforme sociale, philosophie, littérature, musique et arts plastiques) qu'il dépasse tous les efforts de synthèse entrepris pour le saisir dans sa totalité. La variété des romantismes nationaux en divers pays d'Europe...

Gobeklitepe, the oldest temple in the world, awakened from its 12,000 years of sleep to tell hacker Kamil a secret. A secret, locked behind the sealed tongue of its guardian, that can only be, heard by to the wise and capable... Kamil is, forced to unravel Gobeklitepe's mysteries, when a stranger from the southeastern Turkish town of Urfa arrives on his doorstep, asking to buy his house. Kamil, the only Jew left in ancient Carian city of Milas, just...

A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake. Poet, artist, and visionary, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition and he worked without reward, often mocked, dismissed and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble end in a pauper's grave, Blake now occupies a unique position as an artist who unites and attracts...

Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He proved that if a man has the capacity to live and multiply his experiences, to fight and work, he can produce great art without classical decorum and traditional respectability. He was...

Le musée de la Vie romantique (Paris) a consacré du 4 mars au 15 juin 2008 une exposition à L'ge d'or du romantisme allemand, aquarelles et dessins à l'époque de Goethe. Dans sa Préface au catalogue, Pierre Rosenberg avoue préférer le sous-titre: Aquarelles et dessin à l'époque de... À PROPOS DE L'ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis...

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863)Delacroix fut l'un des plus grands coloristes du XIXe siècle. La couleur était pour lui un moyen d'expression déterminant, qui avait la préséance sur la forme et les détails. Il parlait à l'oeil, moins à la raison. Il se nourrissait des oeuvres des coloristes du Louvre, en particulier de Rubens. Spirituellement, Delacroix s'inscrivait au coeur du mouvement romantique qui...