Iconographic analysis of the theme of "Bathsheba Bathing" in Books of Hours of 15th and 16th Century

In the light of biblical exegesis and medieval literature, this paper proposes an iconographic analysis of the theme of "Bathsheba Bathing" as it appears in Books of Hours. From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, pictorial representations of this Old Testament scene experienced a boom justified by the underlying eroticism of this episode in which David surprises Bathsheba as she is performing a ritual purification bath. The illuminations that we study reflect the encounter between the Christian tradition and humanistic culture

Les représentations du Moyen Âge au Québec à travers les discours muséaux (1944-2014) : pour une histoire du goût, du collectionnement et de la mise en exposition de l'art médiéval au Québec

Cotutelle de thèse France-Québec : Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 et Université de Montréal. Pour respecter les droits d’auteur, la version électronique de cette thèse a été dépouillée de certains documents visuels. La version intégrale de la thèse a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.Cette thèse a pour but d’étudier les diverses représentations du Moyen Âge au Québec à travers un corpus d’expositions parcourant le XXe siècle et le début des années 2000. Nous nous intéressons au rôle joué par l’espace muséal québécois dans la diffusion de discours sur cette période européenne. Chaque exposition est replacée dans son contexte de création afin de mettre en évidence les raisons d’ordres religieux, culturels, politiques et linguistiques qui incitent les musées à privilégier telle ou telle représentation du Moyen Âge.This thesis aims to study the various representations of the Middle Ages in Quebec through a corpus of temporary exhibitions held during the twentieth century and the early 2000s. We question the role played by the Quebec museums in the diffusion of discourses about this European period. In order to highlight the religious, cultural, political or linguistic reasons for museums to focus on a specific representation of the Middle Ages, each exhibition is replaced within its original context of creation

The representations of the Middle Ages in Quebec through the discourses of the museums (1944-2014) : for a history of ths taste

Cette thèse a pour but d'étudier les diverses représentations du Moyen Âge au Québec à travers un corpus d'expositions parcourant le XXe siècle et le début des années 2000. Nous nous intéressons au rôle joué par l'espace muséal québécois dans la diffusion de discours sur cette période européenne. Chaque exposition est replacée dans son contexte de création afin de mettre en évidence les raisons d'ordres religieux, culturels, politiques et linguistiques qui incitent les musées à privilégier telle ou telle représentation du Moyen Âge.This thesis aims to study the various representations of the Middle Ages in Quebec through a corpus of temporary exhibitions held during the twentieth century and the early 2000s. We question the role played by the Quebec museums in the diffusion of discourses about this European period. In order to highlight the religious, cultural, political or linguistic reasons for museums to focus on a specific representation of the Middle Ages, each exhibition is replaced within its original context of creation

Papier flottant = Floating Paper

"A group exhibition that questions the place of drawing in the practice of artists working in numeric, digital and robotic arts." -- Publisher's website

Deterministic methods in stochastic optimal control

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Air leakage in Catalan dwellings: Developing an airtightness model and leakage airflow predictions

In this study we estimate the air leakage distribution of single-family dwellings in Catalonia and use a statistical analysis of an airtightness database for single-family dwellings in France to identify the building characteristics that have the greatest influence on airtightness. The most significant variables are found to be the structure type, the floor area, the age of the building, the number of stories and the insulation type. A multiple linear regression technique is then applied to establish a predictive model for deriving an estimated value of airtightness from these characteristics. To estimate the infiltration airflow, a stochastic simulation of the building characteristics was performed per census tract using real data on the distributions of building variables taken from the census information. The model is then applied to determine the power law coefficient and the airtightness distribution. The predicted flow coefficients are combined with the AIM-2 model and given meteorological conditions to determine the infiltration airflow. Two sets of meteorological conditions are considered: average conditions and extreme conditions for each season.Peer Reviewe

Novel multi-telescopes beam combiners for next generation instruments (FIRST/SUBARU)

International audienceIntegrated optic devices are nowadays achieving extremely good performances in the field of astronomical interferometry, as shown by PIONIER or GRAVITY silica/silicon-based instruments, already installed at VLTI. In order to address other wavelengths, increase the number of apertures to be combined and eventually ensure on-chip phase modulation, we are working on a novel generation of beam combiners, based on the hybridization of glass waveguides, that can ensure very sharp bend radius, high confinement and low propagation losses, together with lithium niobate phase modulators and channel waveguides that can achieve on-chip, fast (<100kHz) phase modulation. The work presented here has been realized in collaboration with our technological partners TeemPhotonics for glass waveguides and iXBlue-PSD for lithium niobate phase modulators. We will present our results on a hybrid glass/niobate (passive/active) beam combiner that has been developed in the context of FIRST/SUBARU 9T beam combiner. The combiner is structured in three parts: a) the first stage (passive glass) achieves beam splitting from one input to eight outputs, and that for nine input fibers coming from the sub-apertures of the Subaru telescope; b) the second stage consists on a 72 channel waveguides lithium niobate phase modulator in a push-pull configuration that allows to modify on-chip the relative phase between the 36 pairs of waveguides; c) a final recombination system of Y-junctions (passive glass) that allows to obtain combination of each input to every other one. The aim of this presentation is to discuss different issues of the combiners, such as transmission, birefringence, half-wave voltage modulation and spectral range

Durability of humidity-based ventilation components after 13 years of operation in French residential buildings – Assessment of components performance in laboratory

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