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Carlo Ginzburg, Art Must Imitate Nature
Director(s): Jean-Louis Comolli
Carlo Ginzburg is one of the most eminent contemporary historians, a professor at UCLA, and the author of internationally translated books such as The Witches' Sabbath, The Cheese and the Worms, and...
Hans Belting, the Role of the Image
Director(s): Yves Breuil
Art historian Hans Belting was born in Audernach (Germany) in 1935. After studying in Mainz, he worked at the Vatican library in Rome. His thesis concerned a fresco from Cimitile, a small town near...
Jean Bottéro, News from Mesopotamia
In this film, Jean Bottéro gives viewers a splendid history—and poetry—lesson. This great epigraphist, and therefore man of letters, is also a practical man. He introduces us to myths, gods, everyday...
Jean-Philippe Lauer, Journey to Saqqara
Director(s): Nick Quinn
Architect-archaeologist Jean-Philippe Lauer arrived at the Egyptian site of Saqqara for the first time in 1926. Some seventy years later, he continues to survey, explore, scrutinize, and analyze the...
Federico Zeri, the Occhio
Director(s): Eduardo Gregorio (de)
The title of this film—"The Eye"—was inspired by Federico Zeri's reputation as an expert with an infallible eye, whose judgments have always been awaited with interest and trepidation. In these...
Richard Krautheimer, Roman Days
Director(s): Philippe Collin
Richard Krautheimer, a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin, typifies the scholar who is unknown to the public yet whose work represents a major contribution to his field. The work in question is his...
André Chastel, a Feeling of Happiness
Director(s): Edgardo Cozarinsky
André Chastel (1912–1990) was one of the most eminent international specialists in the Italian Renaissance, to which he devoted the major part of his work. In this film, made at his home toward the...
Charles Sterling, a Hunter in the Medieval Night
Director(s): Richard Copans
Charles Sterling (1901–1991) was a great specialist in medieval painting who recovered many medieval works from oblivion, and sometimes from anonymity. Together with Nicole Reynaud, he identified...
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