Masonic Royal Art, combining science and philosophy with spiritual research and moral improvement, radiates throughout the whole 19th century, which is the successor of both rationalist Enlightenment thought and 18th century ...

The Grand-Guignol theater is regarded as a common literary genre having nothing in common with the real art. Certainly repertoire of this “bloody scene” was a popular fraction of the boulevard theater. The procurers of a ...

Eugène Fromentin belongs to those outstanding artists who achieved successes in both painting and literature. In his epoch, he was greatly successful thanks to his paintings depicting Algerian nature and customs of that ...

In the third and last part of Voyage en Orient 1850-1851, entitled L’Histoire de la Reine de Saba et de Soliman, prince des génies (The History of the Queen of Sheba and Soliman, prince of the geniuses), Gérard de Nerval ...

Marie Krysinska’s novel, La Force du désir, for the longest time was read as a roman à clef, an ironic depiction of the Parisian artistic milieu. Krysinska, a composer, poet, and a writer, exposes a society riddled with ...

This article introduces a deliberation on the nature and work of an ingenious artist. Frenhofer and Claude Lantier are both artists-painters that try to transcend – thanks to their talents – the limit of their art form. ...

This paper puts forward a reflection upon the status of Theodore de Banville in the literary Pantheon by making an attempt to determine the proportions of art and artisanry in his poetic work. While Banville deserves to ...