Art et géographie dans les représentations modernes du paysage, le cas des Pyrénées

摘要

By means of the work of three major authorities on Pyrenean geography, the intention of this communication is to underline the fusion between the sciences and art from the start of the 18th century until the 1870s. First, with Ramond, we see how the scientific method of direct observation is joined to aesthetic principles in landscape painting and how the convergence is widely disseminated by printed reproduction. It is precisely this fusion between theory and practice that Humboldt advocates in his Views of Nature and Cosmos . Secondly a new perspective is born (Violet-le-Duc, 1833) which, anticipating photography, liberates itself of conventions imposed by painting. The shift to this innovative vision is particularly attributable to the singular and brilliant work of Franz Schrader, who not only does not abandon an artistic point of view but rather links science and especially geography to the search for beauty central to Romanticism.