Aborder l’actualité du devenir des campus et des bâtiments universitaires au regard de leur histoire et de leur patrimoine a paru pertinent à l’heure où la plupart d’entre eux subissent des réorganisations profondes et s’interrogent sur l’inscription durable de leur patrimoine immobilier dans les villes et les métropoles qui les accueillent. 

Avoir réuni pour ces journées les villes et leur université était une excellente idée, d’autant que Bordeaux Métropole compte aujourd’hui une population d’environ 72 000 étudiants, soit près de 9 % de la population métropolitaine.

Depuis 1990, les recherches sur les colorants du patrimoine historique ont considérablement enrichi nos connaissances sur les palettes et les techniques chromatiques des sociétés anciennes.

Le colloque « Virtual Retrospect » réunit tous les acteurs des sciences humaines et sociales qui usent de la 3D comme un outil d’aide à la recherche.

The research presented here was carried out between 2017 and 2020 as part of the interdisciplinary programme “Polychromy, pigments, perception: late medieval English alabasters preserved in Aquitaine”, funded by the Laboratory of Excellence Archaeological Sciences of Bordeaux (ANR-10-LabX-52).

During the last two centuries of the Middle Ages, between about 1330 and 1530, English sculptors exploited the alabaster deposits in the Midlands on a large scale to create funerary monuments with recumbents, altarpieces and small devotional reliefs

The medieval English alabasters preserved in the south-west of France have already been the subject of several research works. However, these studies are often outdated and some are unpublished.

Is the polychromy of the Libourne panel representative of other English panels, or is this one a case apart? Are the choices of colour and aesthetic choices common or unusual? An examination of the other English alabasters in the Aquitaine corpus will provide answers to these questions.

Is the polychromy of the Libourne panel representative of other English panels, or is this one a case apart? Are the choices of colour and aesthetic choices common or unusual? An examination of the other English alabasters in the Aquitaine corpus will provide answers to these questions.

The panel depicting the Assumption of the Virgin, kept in the Musée d’Aquitaine in Bordeaux, stands out from the English panels examined so far. It displays many atypical features, starting with the way in which the iconographic theme has been treated

While in the previous chapters we have studied the pigments and colours used on English alabasters, their standardised use, the aesthetic principles governing their combination and their moral codification, we have not yet considered the properties and visual effects produced by medieval polychromies.

Les albâtres anglais de la fin du Moyen Âge, qui connurent un vif succès à l’échelle européenne, ont trouvé de nombreux acquéreurs dans le Sud-Ouest de la France.