For the 41st edition of the Journées du Patrimoine, we're off to theInstitut national d'histoire de l'art, which is offering tours and other events all weekend long on September 21 and 22, 2024. Restored by architect Henri Labrouste in the 19th century, the former imperial library invites you to discover its two spaces: the Labrouste room and the Colbert gallery. A wonderful visit for all lovers of libraries and historical monuments!
A true architectural masterpiece, the building has been listed as a historical monument since 1983, and reopened in 2016 after several years of restoration... Access to the building, usually reserved for art history students and researchers with a reader's card, is now open to the public on the occasion of these open days. By opening its doors, the INHA is offering the public the chance to discover its research facilities, which are usually closed to visitors, and to understand how the major issues surrounding images are approached across the discipline, and what tools art historians use to carry out their research.
Why not take advantage of this new edition of the Journées du Patrimoine (Heritage Days ) to discover this place that is exceptionally opening its doors to us? Discover the program below!
Colbert Gallery
To mark the European Heritage Days, the two sites of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, the Galerie Colbert, a former shopping arcade, and the prestigious Salle Labrouste, the library of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, designed by architect Henri Labrouste, are open to visitors, either on their own or with a guided tour led by students of archaeology, art history and heritage. Visitors can discover the little-known history of the Galerie Colbert, a Parisian passageway. In the library, the public can admire the spectacular reading room with its ceramics and painted decor, the medallions decorated with gold leaf, the monumental caryatids and the pneumatic system installed in 1932.
20 visual objects from the last 20 years, analyzed and commented on by 20 art historians in a series of interviews
All images have a history, and all our histories are made up of images. Art history is a fascinating tool that enables us to read the world differently, through its many sensitive expressions. From architecture to fashion, painting, cinema and photography, the aim is to show that art historical research is interested in all sensitive and visual expressions. It speaks to us of our lives and our imaginations, in both their most prosaic and most unexpected dimensions. Art historians look back on 20 images that have marked the last 20 years, 20 videos that will be screened in the Colbert Gallery during the European Heritage Days.
In the rotunda of the Galerie Colbert, visitors will be able to discover the latest works published by INHA.
The Galerie Colbert's partners will be presenting their activities and answering all your questions about art history, heritage, research and the issues involved.
The librarians at the Charlotte Delbo library (75002) are organizing workshops for children using folding techniques to create the shapes behind the words by recycling used books.
From age 8.
Doctoral students from the Colbert Gallery's partner universities will also be taking the floor during the European Heritage Days. They will be presenting to the public, in a brief and lively format, their thesis topics and the methods they use on a daily basis for their research.
Write your own story by discovering the codes and symbols of Mexican pictographic manuscripts!
Mesoamerican pictographic manuscripts, also known as "codexes", were largely destroyed by the Spanish during the Conquest in the 16th century, and very few have survived to the present day. Many codexes are books of sacred divination, but others recount the chronicles of great historical figures or the founding stories of certain peoples.
Ages 15 and up
Speakers:
Marie Chosson (Director of INALCO's Americas Department)
Students and alumni of INALCO's Diplôme de Langues et Civilisations de Mésoamérique: Emmanuel Augé, Diane Coutellier, Terry David, Marilou Renard, Camille Simon
In partnership with the EAC mission of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, librarians at the Charlotte Delbo library (75002) are offering a workshop for children on books and art history. After discovering how a book is constructed, they will choose and describe the works of art of their choice. In this way, each and every one will participate in the creation of his or her own "livrimage".
From 8 years of age.
Play the epigraphist's apprentice and discover how ancient Mayan rulers inscribed the beginning of their reign on stelae!
In the pre-Hispanic Maya world, glyphic writing was a political instrument used to assert the power of the ruler. Epigraphists and archaeologists decipher these glyphs to learn more about the history of these ancient Mayan cities.
Ages 15 and up
Speakers:
Marie Chosson (Director of the Americas Department at INALCO)
Students and alumni of INALCO's Diplôme de Langues et Civilisations de Mésoamérique: Emmanuel Augé, Diane Coutellier, Terry David, Marilou Renard, Camille Simon
"The sea is the greatest museum in the world", wrote Salomon Reinach, as the first discoveries drew attention to sculptures sunk beneath the waves during shipwrecks in antiquity. In recent years, discoveries have multiplied with the development of underwater excavation techniques. These works of art were transported in a variety of contexts, in response to various demands: spoils of war, trade, public or private commissions. The lecture will focus on these accidents of history, which shed light on the history of circulation and exchange by sea, as well as on tastes and power relations in the ancient Mediterranean.
Speaker: François Queyrel (EPHE)
The Cin&Fil association offers a workshop on film costume. After reading a short scenario of adventure and exploration, participants will work in small groups to imagine how heroines and heroes could be dressed, made-up and styled to best express their universe and personalities. The program includes drawing, magazine cutting, paper collage and fabric sampling. Get creative and create your own inspiration board!
The workshop is led by Aure Lebreton and Annelise Gavoille (IRCAV, Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Cin&Fil is a research association dedicated to the promotion of cinema costume and its crafts.
For 8-12 year-olds
It's one of the highlights of the program: in the Jacqueline Lichtenstein auditorium of the Galerie Colbert, 20 Master 2 students in art history and archaeology will have three minutes to present their research in a dedicated competition to an audience unfamiliar with the discipline. They must give a clear, engaging and stimulating presentation of their research in three minutes (180 seconds), making the complex subjects they have been working on for several months understandable to all. A jury of leading art historians will award prizes for the best presentations.
Library
Whether painters or architects, archaeologists, amateurs or art historians, all travelers share a common destiny, including an attraction to escapism and travel. Exhibited during the European Heritage Days, the material traces left by these travelers (autograph letters, archival documents, drawings, prints, photographs) illustrate the diversity and richness of the heritage collections of the Bibliothèque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art.
Not everyone travelled the world for the same reasons or for the same pretexts. While apprentice journeys complete the training of young artists, scientific or diplomatic archaeological expeditions involve the dissemination of knowledge through scholarly publications or dedicated media. But beyond these noble motives sometimes lurks a desire to escape, far from everyday life and social and family constraints. Whether imaginary or real, travel fosters this impulse towards faraway places, creating genuine sources of renewal and transmission of artistic practices.
The exceptional opening of the library of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art during the European Heritage Days is an opportunity for the staff present, whether curators, storekeepers, restorers or researchers, to talk about their jobs and explain how the library works to the public.
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21th, 2024 to September 22th, 2024
Location
National Institute of Art History
58 Rue de Richelieu
75002 Paris 2
Access
Metro line 3 "Quatre Septembre" or "Bourse" station
Prices
Free
Official website
www.inha.fr
