Quatuor
introduction: what's the use of a poivrière? where is the order of deterministic chaos hiding? visual art
 art
new texts in English:

An introduction to Art in the Upper Paleolithic (pdf)
Renaissance Architecture C/ Flamboyant Gothic (pdf)
Baroque Architecture C/ Classic Architecture (pdf)
Rococo Architecture and Classic Architecture in the time of Rococo (pdf)
summary of the French texts below

new texts in French:

A history of art and architecture in 12 periods,
revealing over the millennia the evolution
of the perceived relationship between matter and spirit
 
and an  Essay on art
Where it will be shown that this is not the representation of a hand

  Pech_Merle

 main site in French: science, visual arts, music, mathematics    author
 

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