In France, between Saumur and Chinon, in the heart of the Loire Valley, the Abbaye de Fontevraud is a timeless place. Founded nearly a thousand years ago, this abbey has enjoyed a rich history. From a major spiritual center to the royal necropolis of the Plantagenets and a terrifying prison, Fontevraud is now a formidable cultural […]
What if certain works of art, long before the rise of modern medicine, preserved in spite of themselves the visible signs of disease? This is precisely the premise of iconodiagnosis: an approach at the crossroads of medicine and art history that involves identifying pathological signs in human representations from the visual arts – painting, sculpture, mosaic, illuminated […]
In Bordeaux (France), the stone bridge has been part of the lives of the city’s inhabitants since 1822, but this link between the two banks of the Garonne is sinking a few millimetres every year, a sinking that could eventually lead to the ruin of the structure. A major project has just been launched to […]
