French Miniatures (Iluminuras)

This type of painting was used extensively as decoration of manuscripts from convents, chronicles and others.


Este tipo de pintura utilizou-se largamente como elemento decorativo de manuscritos de conventos, de crónicas e outros.

Unknown (ca 1490)-'Diogenes and Crates of Thebes'-miniature pergament Chantilly-Musée Condé (Ms 297 Jacques Legrand in Livre des bonnes moeurs-book of good manners)

Unknown (ca 1490)-'how the knights must govern'-miniature Chantilly-Musée Condé (Ms 297, folio 93v Jacques Legrand in Livre des bonnes moeurs)

Unknown (15th century)-'Cybele, Numa Pompilio, Egeria'-miniature Saint Augustine in Opera Omnia

Jean Fouquet (1420-1481)-'capture of Jerusalem by Herod the Great in 36 BC'-miniature Paris-Bibliothèque National de France (Flavius Josèphe in Les Antiquités Judaïques livre XV- Ms. NAF 21013, folio 1v)

Unknown (1110-1120)-'knight attacking a dragon'-miniature Dijon-Bibliothèque Municipale Ms 173, fol.20 (St Gregory the Great in Moralia sive exposito in Job)

French ruins (Ruínas Francesas)

The human condition shows great difficulties in dealing with the past, especially in troubled periods such as wars, revolutions, conquests, whether they are of a civil or religious nature. These occurred during the French Revolution or at the end of the Second Empire.


A condição humana mostra grandes dificuldades em conviver com o passado, principalmente em períodos agitados como guerras, revoluções, conquistas, sejam de carácter civil ou religioso. Estas ocorreram no decurso da Revolução Francesa ou no final do II Império.

Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723-1807)-'demolition of the Couvent des Cordeliers'-oil on canvas

Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723-1807)-'demolition of the church of Saint-Barthélemy in Paris (1891)'-oil on canvas Paris-Musée Carnavalet

Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723-1807)-'demolition of the Bastille'-oil on canvas Paris-Musée Carnavalet

Mme (née Destours) Duchateau-'demolition of the old church of Sainte Geneviève in Paris'-oil on canvas

Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1813-1875)-'soldiers in the ruins of the Tuileries 7th July 1871'-oil on canvas Paris-Musée Carnavalet