| Summary: | From 1988 to 1992, a first census of wall-paintings led by the Service régional de l’Inventaire géneral of Burgundy took place, initiated by the Conseil Régional. An exhibition named “D’ocre et d’Azur” and its catalogue allowed the riches of this heritage to be discovered by a large public. Ten years later, this thematic survey of the region started again in order to be completed, with the help of several partners (Service Régional de l’Inventaire, the CNRS,University of Burgundy, Conseil Régional, association PACoB), and presented once again to the public in 2003, at the Musée Archéologique of Dijon, through a temporary exhibition accompanied by a catalogue, “Couleurs de temps, fragments d’histoire”, then of a traveling exhibition thanks to the association PACoB. A team gave another development to this survey concerned with the value of this wall-painting heritage. Indeed, new discoveries keep widening and deepening the knowledge about these paintings in churches and private places. Through some particularly outstanding examples (Chassignelles (89), Branches (89), Villeneuve-les-Genêts (89), Diennes-Aubigny (58), Asnois (58), Bellefond (21), Nuits-Saint-Georges (21)), readers will be able to discover in this article the actual conservation and restoration policies in Burgundy as well as several major places regarding the understanding of pictural creation from the Middle-Ages to the 17th century.
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