Sélections

A few million years ago… Long ago, our planet was populated by gigantic beings, until they mysteriously disappeared. Was it due to a meteorite, a change in diet or simply the passage of time? This is a question that will remain unanswered for a long time to come. Indeed, why and how could entities as […]

Art has been present in fiction since the 19th century: Honoré de Balzac, Maurice Leblanc, Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola. In contemporary novels, we often find the character of the artist or the world of the arts: in Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq or Haruki Murakami, for literature. Julian Schnabel, Christian Schwochow and Julie Taymor, for cinema. […]

What’s the ideal city? Philosophers, historians, urban planners, archaeologists and other specialists will attempt to answer this question at a forthcoming symposium, La Ville idéale, Entre utopie et réalité, at the University of Lausanne. What did the ideal city look like in ancient times? A short journey from utopia to reality. For Plato,Atlantis undoubtedly represented […]

Spend a brilliant summer with the selection of documents prepared by the Riponne site librarians on the theme of color. Primary or complementary, simple visual perception or highly symbolic notion, colors are constantly occupying both our visual field and social space. They allow us to express our emotions, indicate our state of health, are either […]

Is there anyone who hasn’t heard at least one of the preludes and fugues that make up Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier? Probably not! In 1722, 300 years ago, the Leipzig Cantor composed the first part of his famous Wohltemperierte Klavier (BWV 846-869). The second book (BWV 870-893) was published 22 years later, in 1744. […]

Discover the third episode in our series From Sign to Sound, dedicated to the art of interpretation. In the spotlight this time, one of the most famous pianists, who died 10 years ago: Sviatoslav Richter. “The performer is really an executor, having to reproduce the composer’s intentions to the letter; he must add nothing that […]