‘Éclat’. Brilliance and its erasure in societies, past and present : vocabulary, operations, scenographies, meanings. Edited by Philippe Jockey, Helen Glanville, Claudio Seccaroni.
Titre en français : L’Éclat et son effacement dans les sociétés anciennes et contemporaines : ses mots, ses gestes et ses scénographies
Sommaire
Introduzione
- L’éclat: the scientific challenges of an extinguished brilliance
Philippe Jockey
The vocabulary of light reflected
- All that glitters is not gold…
Clarisse Prêtre - Matte surfaces: meaning for audiences of 18th-century pastel portraits and the implications for their care today
Thea Burns
The actions: brilliance, shine and its erasure
- Brilliance and the imprint: Roman mural painting, an architectural epidermis
Maud Mulliez - The eternal life of the painting: obliteration versus the brilliance of the artist’s genius
Ana González Mozo
Ancient, modern and contemporary tagins of éclat and its erasure
- Architecture and the radiance of Greek sculpture
Sophie Montel - Colour, radiance and meaning. A semiological perspective on Greek Archaic Korai
Anthony Mathé - Technology in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage
Franz Fischnaller - Ritual practices of ‘preservative’ obliteration in the Iron Age. An archaeological perspective on the choice of colours and materials
Mario Dentir - De-gild, re-gild, erase. The decora tions of Paleo-Christian
churches (4th-6th century).The morals of religion and the political discourse of erasure and obliteration the role of materials
Elisabetta Neri - “A world of material splendour”. Walter Pater and the paradox of Greek sculptural polychromy
Charlotte Ribeyrol
Post scripta
- Some reflections on éclat and its erasure. The perspective of a restorer and translator
Helen Glanville - The luminous materials of the divine
Claudio Seccaroni
