With the Ecole du Louvre, the Fondation Etrillard has decided to use their endowment fund support original research into the links and associations between the arts of the past and the arts of the present. The Fondation Etrillard sponsors a scholarship for a postgraduate student during their three-year thesis (2021-2024; 2024-2027). This project reflects the Foundation's mission to build bridges between European tradition and culture and the contemporary world. The results of the research will be presented in summer courses given by the PhD student to academic auditors and published in a scientific article in the École du Louvre’s Carnets.
As well as funding this doctoral scholarship, the Fondation Etrillard also supports a ‘bourse de vie’ (life scholarship). This helps students to complete their undergraduate studies in conditions conducive to their success. By supporting this scholarship, the Foundation is pursuing its commitment to making art accessible to people in precarious situations.
In 2024, the second ‘Arts of the Past/Arts of the Present’ scholarship goes to Jérôme Papadopoulos, a post-master's student in art history, archaeology and museology at the École du Louvre.
His thesis, entitled Les Nabis après les Nabis (The Nabis after the Nabis), is a continuation of the work he began on his final dissertation at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) under the supervision of Denis Laoureux. His intention is to study the Nabi aftermath from a socio-historical and formal angle after 1900, date of dissolution of the group. This thesis is co-supervised by Claire Barbillon (director of the École du Louvre) and Léa Saint-Raymond (director of the Observatoire des humanités numériques at the ENS-PSL).
Jérôme Papadopoulos © Stéphane Richard - École du Louvre
‘These questions [of Nabi heritage and sociability] have so far remained at the hypothesis stage in the scientific literature, with the exception of Claire Barbillon's work on the question of the links between the Nabis and the École de Beuron. This is one of the many post-Nabi trends, of which so many others remain to be studied. The interest of this research, the desire for which was expressed in a 1998 interview with Guy Cogeval, but which has not yet been carried out, is to understand the history of the Nabis after the dissolution of the group: a history that is resolutely transnational, social and aesthetic, with legacies stretching from the twentieth century to the present day, creating a dialogue between the arts of the past and the arts of the present,’ explains Jérôme Papadopoulos.
The Fondation Etrillard's first ‘Arts of the Past/Arts of the Present’ doctoral research grant has been awarded to Clara Lespessailles, a postgraduate student at the École du Louvre, selected by a jury of leading scientists from the partner institutions.
After obtaining her undergraduate diploma from the École du Louvre, specialising in ‘Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art’, Clara Lespessailles submitted a postgraduate dissertation on ‘The Centaur in the arts (nineteenth to twentieth centuries): permanence or rupture?’ This first research project aroused her particular interest in the diachronic approach in the arts and in the phenomenon of aesthetic reception in the 19th century.
Clara Lespessailles
