Dossier Èclat

Dossier Éclat.

Brilliance and its erasure in societies, past and present: vocabulary, operations, scenographies, meanings

edited by Philippe Jockey, Helen Glanville, Claudio Seccaroni

• Foreword
  Philippe Jockey

Introduzione

• L’éclat: the scientific challenges of an extinguished brilliance
  Philippe Jockey

The vocabulary of light reflected

• All that glitters is not gold…
  Clarisse Prêtre
• Matte surfaces: meaning for audiences of 18th-century pastel portraits and the implications for their care today
  Thea Burns

The actions: brilliance, shine and its erasure

• Brilliance and the imprint: Roman mural painting, an architectural epidermis
  Maud Mulliez
• The eternal life of the painting: obliteration versus the brilliance of the artist’s genius
  Ana González Mozo

Ancient, modern and contemporary tagins of éclat and its erasure

• Architecture and the radiance of Greek sculpture
  Sophie Montel
• Colour, radiance and meaning. A semiological perspective on Greek Archaic Korai
  Anthony Mathé
• Technology in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage
  Franz Fischnaller
• Ritual practices of ‘preservative’ obliteration in the Iron Age. An archaeological perspective on the choice of colours and materials
  Mario Dentir
• De-gild, re-gild, erase. The decora tions of Paleo-Christian
  churches (4th-6th cen tury).The morals of religion and the political discourse of erasure and obliteration the role of materials
  Elisabetta Neri
• “A world of material splendour”. Walter Pater and the paradox of Greek sculptural polychromy
  Charlotte Ribeyrol

Post scripta

• Some reflections on éclat and its erasure. The perspective of a restorer and translator
  Helen Glanville
• The luminous materials of the divine
  Claudio Seccaroni