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03.31.2017 Floral hoax

Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) - Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase

For sure these painted bouquets are authentic, bloom by bloom.

03.20.2017 The ‘Reverse Perspective’

Andreï Roublev (1360/70 - 1428) -  Archange Mikhaïl de Roublev de la déisis de la Dormition de Zvenigorod (1420),  Galerie Tretiakov, Moscou

In his article called Reverse perspective written in 1919, Pavel Florenski (1882-1937) revived the true aura of the icon in relation to the universally revered art of the Renaissance.

03.13.2017 Gardens…

Jan Brueghel l'Ancien dit "de Velours",  (1568-1625) - Le Jardin d'Eden, Musée Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid

The original model of the garden is mythological.

03.10.2017 A little history of perspective (II)

Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Le Port (1909) National Gallery of art, Washington (© National Gallery of art, Washington © Adagp, Paris 2013)

The optical illusion of perspective expresses the omnipotence of man over a Nature.

03.06.2017 L’Ombre dans l’Eau

diptyque-ombre-dans-leau

L’Ombre dans l’Eau was created as a result of a number of casual and matching gatherings.

03.03.2017 A little history of perspective (I)

M.C. Escher (1898-1972) - Chute d'eau (1961)

The science underpinning perspective was theorised and became a model during the Renaissance by the great Italian humanist artists.

02.27.2017 Fahrenheit 451

Couverture annotée par le cinéaste François Truffaut du livre Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury, éditions Denoël – (La Cinémathèque française © Succession François Truffaut)

In the fictitious society of Fahrenheit 451, books are outlawed, hunted down and destroyed by fire.

02.20.2017 The sensible seal

Portrait de René Descartes (1596-1650) par Jan Baptist Weenix (162-1659/61), Utrecht Centraal Museum.

Descartes’ wax argument is instructive thanks to its extreme plasticity.

02.06.2017 The odyssey of paper

Papier "pur chiffon", à la papèterie artisanale Le Moulin du Verger.

Because paper is part and parcel of books and of the writing process, it continues to be an invention that is central to humanity.

02.03.2017 Rosamund

Fair Rosamund, 1861 (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882), National Museum.

Through the twists and turns of dream-like associations, Rosamund – Rosa Mundi – ended up being the name of a rose eternally associated with love.

01.27.2017 The thinking hand

Galileo, Galilei, Phases lunaires, 1610

Endorsed by prestigious examples, art historian Horst Bredekamp shows the specific logic of drawing in which the hand produces an explicit bond between an idea and its related image.

01.23.2017 Eno’s nose

Brian Eno (photographie de Sølve Sundsbø)

Eno became very interested in both natural and artificial scents during his time at Art College. His reflexions on this subject sheds light on his conceptual understanding and experimental approach of music as an artist.

01.16.2017 The author of authorship

Denis Diderot 1713-1784), peint par Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), Musée Du Louvre.

In his « Letter addressed to a magistrate on the book trade », Diderot is the involuntary author of the modern concept of authorship and copyright.

01.09.2017 Sub rosa…

Écusson avec rose et glaive, placé au plafond, à Rhodes (© edlimphoto)

The Rosa Mundi collection should not be mentioned sub rosa in anyway.

01.02.2017 Rose star

Rosa Centifolia Prolifera Foliacea, Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)

Roses too are stars.

12.30.2016 Current status of stars

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the cluster Westerlund 2 and its surroundings has been released to celebrate Hubble’s 25th year in orbit and a quarter of a century of new discoveries, stunning images and outstanding science. The image’s central region, containing the star cluster, blends visible-light data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys and near-infrared exposures taken by the Wide Field Camera 3. The surrounding region is composed of visible-light observations taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
The large black pots for our indoor-outdoor 1.5 kg Baies candles shimmer with a constellation of small golden stars. Stars? Indoor-outdoor? Heavy? Black? Fire? This is a perfume Universe! Appropriate then to find out more about stars… A star is stable ball of gas that produces energy. Light energy results from the nuclear fusion processes that dilate the star’s core. This thermal expansion process balances out the gravitational forces that…

12.27.2016 Fairies, faith, beliefs & photographs

Frances Griffiths dix ans, photographiée avec ses amies fées par sa cousine Elsie Wright, qui en avait seize, en 1917.

The individual is most often – if not always – mystified by what he or she has decided to see.

12.19.2016 Christmas pyramids

"Weihnachtspyramide" (pyramide de Noël)

The German Christmas pyramid or « weihnachtspyramide » appeared during the XIXth century in the mountains between Saxony and Bohemia.

12.09.2016 French pains d’épices

Septième ilkhan de Perse, l’illkhanide Ghazan Mahmud Khan (1271-1304) était l'arrière-petit-fils d’Houlagou Khan (lui-même petit fils de Genis Khan), fondateur des la dynastie mongole des Houlagides (ou Ilkhanides).

Honeyed spiced bread has been consumed in countries far and wide for millennia.

11.07.2016 Mr. Pollock’s toy theaters

Pollocks-2

No wonder the diptyque founders collected Pollock’s theaters and were probably the only ones to sell them in Paris.

10.31.2016 One Night at diptyque: three Christmas candles

Une Nuit chez diptyque : les trois bougies de Noël

Three candles dedicated to the celebration of the Nativity, to all the children and everyone…

10.28.2016 Dingo diva

Florence Foster Jenkins (©Getty image)
Was Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) the inspiration behind Hergé’s Milanese songbird Bianca Castafiore? The latter made readers chuckle but Florence also made her audience fall about laughing – but not in a good way. Cinema immortalises her in the most moving way. And there’s a connection with diptyque’s past too… Florence Foster Jenkins was an eccentric diva whose passionate love of music sadly made her unaware of unability. Voice, tempo,…

10.14.2016 diptyque patterns

Pretorien Bleu

diptyque created fabrics until 1963: founders designed quite unusual patterns, geometric variations inspired from abstraction and modern art…

09.16.2016 The face by Levinas

Emmanuel_Levinas (1906-1995)

For Emmanuel Levinas, the encounter of the Other via the face is a key to human consciousness, his work as a philosopher and his moral teachings.

09.02.2016 Slowness

Milan Kundera, écrivain tchécoslovaque né en 1929 et naturalisé français.

“The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory ; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetfulness” (Milan Kundera, excerpt from Slowness)

08.19.2016 Flower power

Flower Power - photographie de Bernie Boston (©Bernie Boston) nominée au Prix  Pulitzer en 1967

Flowers were used as a light-hearted way to disarm enemy guns.

08.15.2016 This ancient branch of Botany

Carl von Linné - Systema Naturae 
En 1735, Carl von Linné (1707-1778) publie le premier essai de classification systématique des trois règnes minéral, végétal et animal. Son Systema naturæ divise les animaux en six groupes (Quadrupèdes, Oiseaux, Amphibiens, Poissons, Insectes et Vers), déterminés en fonction d’organes spécifiques : dents, becs, nageoires ou ailes. La dixième édition, de 1758, généralise le système de nomenclature binomiale (un double nom latin, générique et spécifique, pour chaque espèce).

Botany only became a science, an autonomous field of knowledge, during the XVIIIth century.

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