Le Style Troubadour : L'autre Romantisme

Attracted by the past, the Troubadour genre celebrates the great historical figures, from Joan of Arc to Henry IV, from Heloise and Abelard to the knights of the Middle Ages, but yields to the modern, sometimes industrial, techniques of its time. Aesthetically, the Troubadour genre uses existing forms to which a new subject and a new decoration are added. Thus, a Gothic façade on a neoclassical building, a medieval decoration on a pair of armchairs, a clock or an object whose theme alone is "innovative". These subjects, taken up and applied to the decorative arts in the first half of the nineteenth century, were widely conveyed and democratised by engraving, itself copied from painting.

This book proposes a definition of the decorative arts of the Troubadour style, which had not been studied as a whole until now.