L'imaginaire Des Grottes Dans Les Jardins Européens

Presentation of artificial caves, from the Renaissance to the present day, constituting an essential element in the creation of gardens throughout Europe, from the simple niche housing a fountain to the real sublimated natural chaos. 

Prize of the Montherlant Circle of the Academy of Fine Arts 2015, Pierre-Joseph Redouté Prize 2015, French Academy Prize 2015 (vermeil medal).

Through more than hundred illustrated examples, this book aims to explore the issues of the continuous fascination for garden caves and to bring to light the formal and technical inventiveness to which they led. A hundred iconographic documents - encyclopaedic illustrations, allegorical painting, portraits, theatre sets, etc. - enable to evoke their artistic, literary, scientific, technical, religious, philosophical or anthropological backgrounds.