Arthéna
Encyclopedia
Arthéna is a French Association pour la diffusion de l'histoire de l'art which regularly publishes art history
books and most particularly catalogues.
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
books and most particularly catalogues.
Members
(Former and present)- Scientific committee : Colin Bailey, Sir Anthony BluntAnthony BluntAnthony Frederick Blunt , was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London...
, André ChastelAndré ChastelAndré Chastel was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance....
, Mario Chiarini, Thomas Gaehtgens, Francis Haskell, Robert Herbert, Michel LaclotteMichel LaclotteMichel Laclotte is an art historian and museum director, specialising in 14th and 15th century French painting.His first role was as "inspecteur des musées" of the province, then as a professor at the Ecole du Louvre and as head conservator of the paintings department of the Louvre from 1966...
, Alastair Laing, Anna Ottani-Cavina, Robert RosenblumRobert RosenblumRobert Rosenblum was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th century....
, Federico ZeriFederico ZeriFederico Zeri was an Italian art historian. He was born in Rome.In 1963 he directed the foundation of the John Paul Getty Museum of Malibu. He was a specialist in the Italian painting of the 13th and 14th centuries, and latterly professor at the Catholic University of Milan...
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- Directors of Publication : Jacques Foucart, Marianne Roland-Michel, Pierre RosenbergPierre RosenbergPierre Max Rosenberg is a French art historian and essayist.Born in Paris, he graduated at the École du Louvre. He joined the Musée du Louvre in 1962 as an assistant, then became curator and later director of the museum. Rosenberg was elected to the Académie française on 7 December...
, Antoine SchnapperAntoine SchnapperAntoine Schnapper was a French art historian on art of the 18th century. A student of André Chastel, he organised many retrospectives on artists of that period, notably one at the Louvre in 1989 on Jacques Louis David to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution...
, Alain Mérot.
List of publications
By date of publication- François-Guillaume MénageotFrançois-Guillaume MénageotFrançois-Guillaume Ménageot was a French painter of religious and French historical scenes. A pupil of François Boucher , he went on to win the Grand Prix de Rome and become a director of the French Academy in Rome, an academician and a member of the Institute.-Life:He was born in London, the son...
, 1744-1816, Peintre d'histoire, directeur de l'Académie de France à Rome, by Nicole Willk-Brocard, 1978. OCLC 4733906 - La Peinture d'histoire en France de 1747 à 1785. Étude sur l'évolution des idées artistiques dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, Jean Locquin, 1978. OCLC 4445657
- Philippe de Chennevières, Souvenirs d'un Directeur des Beaux-Arts, by Philippe de Chennevières 1979. OCLC 8532196
- Jean-Simon Berthélemy (1743-1811) : peintre d'histoire, Nathalie Volle 1979. OCLC 6864902
- La Peinture TroubadourTroubadour styleTaking its name from medieval troubadours, the Troubadour Style was a French artistic movement across multiple media aiming to regain the idealised atmosphere of the Middle Ages...
, deux artistes lyonnais, Pierre RévoilPierre RévoilPierre Révoil was a French painter of the Troubadour style. He was the elder brother of the poet Louise Colet and friend of François Fleury-Richard.- Bibligraphic reference :...
(1776-1842), Fleury-Richard (1777-1852), by Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, 1980. OCLC 7348060 - Les peintures de l'Opéra de Paris de Baudry à Chagall, 1980. OCLC 7193250
- Nicolas BertinNicolas BertinNicolas Bertin was a French painter.- Biography :A student of Jean Jouvenet, Vernansal the elder and Louis Boullongne, he won the prix de Rome in 1685 for "Construction of Noah's ark"...
, 1668-1736 , by Thierry Lefrançois, 1981. OCLC 8241047 - Robert Le Lorrain, 1666-1743, by Michèle Beaulieu, 1982, ISBN 2-903239-01-0
- Pierre Peyron, 1744-1814, by Pierre RosenbergPierre RosenbergPierre Max Rosenberg is a French art historian and essayist.Born in Paris, he graduated at the École du Louvre. He joined the Musée du Louvre in 1962 as an assistant, then became curator and later director of the museum. Rosenberg was elected to the Académie française on 7 December...
et Udolpho Van De Sandt, 1983, ISBN 2-903239-02-9 - Lajoüe et l'art rocaille, Marianne Roland Michel, 1984, ISBN 2-903239-03-7
- François Le Moyne and his generation, 1688-1737, by Jean-Luc Bordeaux, 1985, ISBN 2-903239-04-5
- Jacques RéattuJacques RéattuJacques Réattu was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome. He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort and Catherine Raspal, sister of the Arles-born painter Antoine Raspal - Antoine gave him his first lessons in painting.In Paris, in 1773 he was a...
, 1760-1833, Peintre de la Révolution française, by Katrin Simons, 1985, ISBN 2-903239-05-3 - Gaspard Dughet, sa vie et son œuvre, 1615-1675, Marie-Nicolle Boisclair, 1986, ISBN 2-903239-06-1
- Eustache Le SueurEustache Le SueurEustache Le Sueur or Lesueur , one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting, was born in Paris, where he passed his whole life....
, 1616-1655, by Alain Mérot, 1987 - Le Renouveau de la peinture religieuse en France, 1800-1860, by Bruno Foucart, 1987, ISBN 2-903239-07-X
- Joseph-Marie VienJoseph-Marie VienJoseph-Marie Vien , French painter, was born at Montpellier. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791....
, peintre du roi, 1716-1809, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Jacques Lugand, 1988, ISBN 2-903239-09-6 - Antoine CoypelAntoine CoypelAntoine Coypel was a history painter, the more famous son of the French painter Noël Coypel.Antoine studied under his father, with whom he spent four years at Rome. At the age of eighteen he was admitted into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, of which he became professor and rector in...
, 1661-1722, by Nicole Garnier-Pelle, 1989, ISBN 2-903239-10-X - Les Frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins, by Élisabeth Launay, 1991, ISBN 2-903239-12-6
- Thomas Blanchet, 1614-1689, by Lucie Galactéros-de Boissier, 1991, ISBN 2-903239-11-8
- Gérard de Laîresse, 1640-1711, Alain Roy, 1992, ISBN 2-903239-13-4
- Claude VignonClaude VignonClaude Vignon was a leading French painter and engraver working in the Baroque manner.He was born at Tours and received early training in Paris...
, 1593-1670, by Paola Pacht Bassani, Paola, 1993,ISBN 2-903239-16-9 - Giuseppe Cades 1750-1799, et la Rome de son temps, Maria-Teresa Caracciolo, 1992, ISBN 2-903239-14-2
- Amaury-Duval, L’Atelier d’IngresIngresIngres Database is a commercially supported, open-source SQL relational database management system intended to support large commercial and government applications...
, presentation by Daniel Ternois, 1993, ISBN 2-903239-15-0 - Philippe-Auguste HennequinPhilippe-Auguste HennequinPhilippe-Auguste Hennequin was a French history painter and portraitist.A student of the Swede Per Eberhard Cogell in Lyon, then in Paris a student of David, he then went to Rome thanks to an English patron, but was forced to leave the city due to the anti-French riots of 1793...
, 1762-1833, by Jérémie Benoit, 1994, ISBN 2-903239-17-7 - Une Dynastie, les Hallé, (Daniel HalléDaniel HalléDaniel Hallé was a French painter.Studying painting in his birthplace, he was apprenticed there on 4 November 1631. He produced a Multiplication of the Loaves and Martyrdom of Saint-Symphorien...
, Claude Guy Hallé, Noël HalléNoël HalléNoël Hallé was a French painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hallé....
), by Nicole Willk-Brocard, 1995, ISBN 2-903239-19-3 - Alexandre-Joseph Paillet, Expert et marchand de tableaux à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, by JoLynn Edwards, 1996, ISBN 2-903239-20-7
- Corneille de La Haye dit Corneille de LyonCorneille de LyonCorneille de Lyon was a Dutch painter of portraits who was active from 1533 until his death in Lyon, France...
, by Anne Dubois de Groër, 1997, ISBN 2-903239-21-5 - Charles Poerson 1609-1667, by Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, N. de Reyniès, Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, 1997, ISBN 2-903239-22-3
- Les Watteau de Lille, Louis Watteau, 1731-1798, François Watteau, 1758-1823, by Gaëtane Maës, 1998, ISBN 2-903239-23-1
- Laurent DelvauxLaurent DelvauxLaurent Delvaux was a prolific Belgian sculptor.-Life:Delvaux was born in Ghent. In Brussels he was a student of Denis Plumier from Antwerp, he followed Plumier to London in 1719 and collaborated with him on the funerary monument of John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham...
, Gand, 1696-Nivelles, 1778, by Alain Jacobs Alain, 1999, ISBN 2-903239-24-X - Napoléon : portraits contemporains, bustes et statues, Gérard Hubert, 1999, ISBN 2-903239-25-8
- Eustache Le SueurEustache Le SueurEustache Le Sueur or Lesueur , one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting, was born in Paris, where he passed his whole life....
1616-1655, by Alain Mérot 2000, (reprinted, edited and corrected - the only Arthéna book ever to be reissued - 1987), ISBN 2-903239-26-6 - Jean RestoutJean II RestoutJean II Restout was a French painter, whose late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.-Biography:...
, 1692-1768, peintre d'histoire à Paris, by Christine Gouzi, 2000, ISBN 2-903239-27-4 - Les Patel, Pierre Patel (1605-1676) et ses fils, le paysage de ruines à Paris au XVIIe siècle, by Nathalie Coural, 2001, ISBN 2-903239-28-2
- Charles Coypel, 1694 - 1752, by Thierry Lefrançois, 2001, ISBN 2-903239-18-5
- Louis-Jacques Durameau, 1733-1796, by Anne Leclair, 2001, ISBN 2-903239-29-0
- Jean-François de Troy, 1679 - 1752, by Christophe Leribault, 2002, ISBN 2-903239-30-4
- Nicolas Antoine Taunay, 1755 - 1830, by Claudine Lebrun Jouve, 2003, ISBN 2-903239-36-3
- Noël-Nicolas CoypelNöel-Nicolas CoypelNöel-Nicolas Coypel was a popular French artist.The son of Noël Coypel and half-brother to the more-famous painter Antoine Coypel, he was accredited to the Academie Royale in 1716. He was appointed a professorship in 1733, but died shortly thereafter in a domestic accident.-See also:*A bust of...
, 1690-1734, by Jérôme Delaplanche, 2004, ISBN 2-903239-31-2 - François du QuesnoyFrançois DuquesnoyFrançois Duquesnoy was a Baroque sculptor in Rome. His more idealized representations are often contrasted with the emotional character of Bernini's works, while his style shows greater affinity to Algardi's sculptures....
, 1597 - 1643, by Marion Boudon-Machuel, 2005, ISBN 2-903239-32-0 - Louis Bréa ca.1450- ca.1523, by Claire-Lise Schwok, 2006, ISBN 2-903239-33-9
- Daniel DumonstierDaniel DumonstierDaniel Dumonstier was a French artist, nicknamed as the best artist in crayons in Europe of his time but now little known. He drew portraits of the major figures of 17th century France, but it is unknown if he limited himself to drawing or also painted.An exhibition of all the 30 works by him held...
, 1574-1646, by Daniel Lecœur, 2006, ISBN 2-903239-34-7 - Joseph ParrocelJoseph ParrocelJoseph Parrocel was a French Baroque painter, best known for his paintings and drawings of battle scenes....
, 1646-1704. La nostalgie de l'héroïsme, by Jérôme Delaplanche, 2006, ISBN 2-903239-35-5 - Nicolas RégnierNicolas RégnierNicolas Régnier , alternatively Niccolò Renieri in Italian, was a Flemish painter and art collector, active in Italy during the Baroque period....
, ca.1588-1667, by Annick Lemoine, 2008, ISBN 978-2-903239-37-4 - Charles MeynierCharles MeynierCharles Meynier was a French painter. A student of François-André Vincent, Meynier won the second prize in the 1789 prix de Rome competition...
1763-1832, by Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, 2008, ISBN 978-2-903239-39-8
- François Le Moyne and his generation, 1688-1737, by Jean-Luc Bordeaux, 1985, ISBN 2-903239-04-5. - the house's only work in English
Reviews and reception
- (27 August 2004), Noël-Nicolas Coypel 1690-1734 : Before speaking on the latest Arthéna book
- (25 September 2005), Photographies interdites : End of the penultimate paragraph.
- (30 July 2006), François du Quesnoy (1597-1643 : Review of this work
- (17 September 2006), A l'occasion d'une exposition organisée par le Musée Condé de Chantilly, les éditions Arthéna ont publié : The Art Tribune
- Pour l’histoire de l’art en France article d'Olivier Bonfait, Science advisor to the INHA : In art history one cannot privilege the monograph view, but we must recognise that the quality of Arthena éditions and their editing of classic monographs of artists is not found anywhere else.