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 ...

This article is the review of some critical articles of Stendhal, Gautier and Nerval which contain reports of operas, ballets and instrumental music concerts. The aim of this comparative analysis is to define the individual ...

Art is considered by Emile Zola as one of the crucial values, as well in his life as in his work. It appears there in many different ways: practical (collecting paintings, friendship with artists) and theoretic (critical ...

The paper is devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the greatest French Romantic painter, who combines the “external cold” and the “inner fire”, as described by René Huyghe. An analysis of selected fragments of his Journal brings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The friendship shared by Mallarmé and Whistler is the point of departure for recalling several texts the poet devoted to the painter, especially the translation of Whistler’s lecture, Ten O’Clock (1885), in which the ...

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 ...