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In the previous article on descriptive music used in film, we learned that a small musical motif alone can tell or suggest a character, an idea, a memory, a feeling, a destiny. But how? Thanks to a process inherited from lyrical romanticism: the Leitmotiv, the “driving motif”. This motif, a musical phrase that recurs several […]

According to specialist Michel Pastoureau, pink is not one of the colors listed by science in its own right. The history of pink, a second-rate color, is uncertain, elusive, fragile and ephemeral. In the West, pink first made its appearance in court dress in Renaissance Italy in the mid-13th century, then after the Great Black […]

To celebrate the centenary of Jean-Claude Hesselbarth (1925-2015), theassociation that “promotes […] the promotion and conservation of his drawings and paintings” invites you to discover the exhibition Jean-Claude Hesselbarth, l’ubac et l’adret. Living works at Espace Arlaud from September 5 to November 9, 2025. In 2016, the artist’s widow, Mrs. Liliane Annen-Hesselbarth, donated to the […]

We discovered it in the first article in the Des notes pleines d’images series, madrigalism laid the foundations for a revolutionary idea: music can illustrate, music can tell. But this idea didn’t stop with the refined salons of the Renaissance. It grew, evolved and enriched over the centuries… until it became a universal language at […]

Each year, the BDFIL festival explores a major contemporary social issue through the medium of comics. In 2025, the program explores the links between the world of work and the 9th art. To echo this, the BCUL offers a selection of comics on the theme of work. This selection brings together fictional stories, investigations, historical […]

In December 2024, the University of Grenoble’s ILCEA journal published an issue entitled Libraries outside the Empire: institutions and cultural practices in Russian-speaking exile (1870-1956). This publication is significant for the BCU Lausanne, as it devotes several articles to the Russian Library of Lausanne. The Russian Library of Lausanne operated as an independent library in […]