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Un étrange phénomène frappe plusieurs oeuvres réalisées à Paris à la fin des années 1950, notamment des tableaux de Pierre Soulages : la peinture se ramollit et redevient liquide. Pour comprendre les causes de ces altérations, on vous emmène aux Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie de Toulouse, suivre une équipe de scientifiques lancée dans une grande campagne d'analyse des composants de peinture grâce à des techniques d'imagerie non-invasives novatrices.

In the late Middle Ages, alabaster panels depicting religious scenes imported from England were very popular throughout Catholic Europe. in the French département of Gironde, for instance, more than a hundred of these artworks still exist; however, most of them have lost their original rich colouring. By combining medieval painting techniques, advances physico-chemical analyses and 3D technologies, a group of researchers from Bordeaux has succeeded in restoring several alabasters to their…

Is art truly eternal? Paintings by Humankind's greatest masters suffer the passage of time. But scientists and curators have joined forces to figure out exactly what is causing the aging of artwork and find a solution to save this heritage for generations to come.

In the Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines chapel in the area of Nice, a team of interdisciplinary researchers is studying frescoes dating from the 15th century to understand how they deteriorate and thus better restore them. As part of the Fiat Lux program, this project is to collect and feed a large amount of images and information into a digital platform. Using different imaging techniques, these researchers will reconstruct works in 3D, probe their relief, make out successive repaints or even detect…

The Youtube channel Zeste de science explores all aspects of scientific research, proving that even the most complicated scientific facts can be explained in less than 5 minutes, and that even the most seemingly trivial events of everyday life, if thoroughly studied, can contribute to the biggest technological advances. Episode 15: How do people look at a work of art? Sociologist Mathias Blanc tries to answer this question in a new project combining art history, sociology and…

The advent of digital photography has rendered film obsolete. Photo studios either sell their negatives to salvage the tiny amounts of silver contained in their coating or they just burn them in order to free some space. A team of researchers is trying to collect and save these snapshots of Indian history.

La série « La science au box-office » s'inspire des codes des bandes annonces hollywoodiennes pour vous faire partager les plus étonnantes études, découvertes et innovations scientifiques de notre époque. Dans « La maison aux images », les murs et plafonds richement illustrés de maisons du Moyen-Âge nous replongent dans un monde lointain et mystérieux où religion, fantasmes et superstitions étaient solidement ancrés dans la vie quotidienne.

How do we look at a work of art? That is the question that sociologist Mathias Blanc is trying to answer in coordinating an ambitious project combining art history, sociology and computer science. Using the Ikonikat application, CNRS researchers have been trying to understand how images are perceived by different beholders. They found out that the way people look at a work of art depends on their sociological profile in a recent research at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lille on a painting by…

At the Institut Henri Poincaré, the exhibition "Esthétopies, variétés d'espaces sensibles" (esthetopies, varieties of sensitive spaces) has the ambitious goal of sharing the fascinating beauty of non-Euclidian geometry with the general public. This project originated from the initiative of Pierre Berger, a former student of Decorative Arts, now a mathematician specialising in three-dimension spaces. Inspired as much by Man Ray's writings as by the work of William Thurston, he designed a…

As part of the Fiat Lux scientific project, the painted decorations of the chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines are studied by a team of interdisciplinary researchers. Using LIBS, they will be able to identify the chemical elements that make up the pictorial materials among all those in Mendeleev's periodic table. Many other tools are used in this project designed to capture and disseminate heritage in a new way in the digital age.

Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, professor of Ancient History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is a specialist in the Ancient Greek world of the Archaic and Classical periods (8th B. C. - 4th B. C.). She takes a special interest in gender issues and analyses the discourses and practices of that time, which provide information on the meaning of gender differences as perceived by the Ancients. She studied more specifically the case of Artemisia of Halicarnassus, a warrior woman who…

Philippe Walter from the laboratory of the Research and Restoration Center of the French Museums (LC2RMF), explains in this short film what are the techniques used by an artist such as Leonardo da Vinci. The study of some of his works and in particular the Mona Lisa, allows to understand how da Vinci, among his multiple abilities, realized a real work of chemist: he elaborated himself his own glazes…

For the first time, this film tells the story of the great adventure of lacquer, the eminent technique that has existed in Asia for over 9,000 years. From lacquer trees to synthetic lacquer, Japanese Wajima bowls to mass-produced furniture in China, and polished lacquer paintings in Vietnam, craftsmen, artists and scientists illustrate the different faces of these objects which have become works of art.

Antoine Spire interviews Philippe Walter, a physico-chemist, and co-director of the laboratory belonging to the Centre for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France. The interview is illustrated by films extracts concerning analyses and restoration of items.

The Franco-Egyptian team of the Centre d ' Études Alexandrines (CEAlex) under the leadership of Jean-Yves Empereur has, for more than ten years now, been involved in a series of salvage excavations on land and underwater. The mosaics unearthed during these digs are moved to the former armoury at Shallalat where they are restored before being exhibited to the public in one of Alexandria ' s museums. This film follows the delicate work done on the Medusa mosaic, from the restoration of the…

The Franco-Egyptian team of the Centre d ' Études Alexandrines (CEAlex) under the leadership of Jean-Yves Empereur has, for more than ten years now, been involved in a series of salvage excavations on land and underwater. The mosaics unearthed during these digs are moved to the former armoury at Shallalat where they are restored before being exhibited to the public in one of Alexandria ' s museums. This film follows the delicate work done on the Mosaic Dog, from the restoration of the central…

In this three-part film, Jean-Claude Golvin, architect-archaeologist, explains his representation methods of ancient sites and monuments. In the first part, we follow, without comments, the architectural representation of the emperor's Tiberius villa Jovis in Capri, from the very beginning: the first outlining of the borders of the building with pencil and later the painting of the villa on aquarelle. in the second part, Jean-Claude Golvin gives a description of this architectural…

Presentation of three studies and scientific analyses concerning three pieces of art, shot at the occasion of the exhibition “Light, Color: art and science dialogs”, which took place in Paris in 2005.

Presentation of the study and scientific analyses concerning a piece of art, a Roman inkwell, shot at the occasion of the exhibition "Light, Color: art and science dialogs", which took place in Paris in 2005.

In Togo, in the Ewe land, graphic popular depicting are realized on the walls of houses or voodoo temples. The painted subjects are various and refer to gods, ancestors, clan divinities, good and bad spirits… The ethnologist Annie Dupuis introduces the painter Ayathor and his work, and then interviews him about his apprenticeship and his inspiration.

A brief history of the construction of the arts building "La tête au carré" in Nice, based on the work of the sculptor Sacha Sosno. At 28 meters high, it is the world's first inhabited sculpture, a kind of brain for the administrative staff of the library, with three floors in the neck and four more in the square head.

Portrait of Félix Fénéon, a publisher, journalist and art critic. He was from the end of the 19th century to his death in 1944 an “eminence grise” in Humanities and painting. He knew a very brief celebrity during an anarchist lawsuit, where he was accused of having throwing a bomb into a restaurant.

Study of the Dogon sculpture in Mali, from a corpus of 150 sculpted granary locks, conserved at the Musée de l ' Homme of Paris. These objects were brought back during diverse missions, from 1906 to 1971.

In Kérala, located in South India, a tradition of short-lived paints made to communicate with gods is perpetuated from father to son. In this film, Mr. Kurup wanders in houses and in temples to celebrate propitiatory rituals, called Kalam ellettu pattu, painting directly on the floor.

A history of the processes used in photography, from its beginnings to the present day, and the way images are formed within a modern emulsion.

A farmer in Steenwerck, a village of northern France, decides to build a weathercock on his roof and gradually shapes it into an airplane.

Tadeusz Kantor talks with Denis Bablet about his painting and his career. He describes the currents and painters who influenced him and presents his paintings at the Galerie de France exhibition in Paris in 1982.

A study of the mechanism of eye movements through electric device makes it possible to analyze the way we look at things, especially the perception of a work of art.

Henry Moore, filmed in his studio and out of doors among his statues, explains his conception of sculpture.

José Pierre in search of Yves Tanguy, discovering the Breton scenery of his childhood and talking to those who knew and liked him.

Arman, sculptor of the Nice school of new realists, has built his home in Vence. It is here, during he summer, that he devotes himself to his favourite creation: splitting objects open to show them from the inside.