Approaching Viollet-le-Duc by Enzo Bentivoglio

“…Restoration of Gothic architecture is a way to preserve it for the future, but also the study of medieval art, culture and society is useful to build a future. Viollet-le-Duc found some elements of modernity in medieval architecture and showed that, through the interpretation of the past, we can understand the present and project the future.…”
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Viollet-le-Duc is back by Bérénice Gaussuin

Subjects: “…Eugène Viollet-le-Duc…”
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Viollet-le-Duc, the nineteenth-century and us by Annunziata Maria Oteri

“…The essay introduces the book Viollet-le-Duc and the nineteenth-century, which in part gathers together the results of the study-day on Viollet-le-Duc La Nostalgia delle origini. …”
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Viollet-le-Duc and the “restoration” of Mont Blanc by Francesca Schepis

“…The essay, a synthesis of the Ph.D. thesis of the author, examines the study of Viollet-le-Duc on Mont Blanc, starting from the analysis of his book Le massif du Mont Blanc. …”
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Viollet-le-Duc and the discovery of the origin of Gothic architecture by Francesco Tomaselli

“…In 1836, the young Viollet-le-Duc travelled to Italy with the purpose of completing his studies on art and architecture, which he had interrupted in France as he did not agree with the classicistic orientation of the Académie des Beaux-arts. …”
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Viollet-le-Duc and polychrome decoration in neo-Gothic architecture by Angela Quattrocchi

“…The essay analyses the interest of Viollet-le-Duc in the relationship between decorative painting and architecture in French medieval buildings. …”
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Proportion, order and construction. Viollet-le-Duc and the temples in Paestum by Stefania Pollone

“…Many architects, painters, engravers, archaeologists and scholars have investigated the structures of the ancient city. Viollet-le-Duc was among those who visited Paestum in 1836. …”
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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc in spomeniško varstvo: študija primera by Helena Kalčić

Subjects: “…Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc…”
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Couleurs du passé/Couleurs du présent. La polychromie d’architecture chez Viollet-le-Duc / Colours of the Past/ Colours of the Present. The Polychromy of the Architecture of Viollet-le-Duc by Arnaud Timbert

Subjects: “…Viollet-le-Duc…”
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Italian backgrounds. 1835-1837. Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc’ early travels in Italy by Michela M. Grisoni

“…Comparing John Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc to highlight their opposing approaches to protecting the past is frequent when reading about them and is indeed valid and effective. …”
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L’émergence de l’esthétique photographique par Viollet-le-Duc et Ruskin by Arnaud François

“…Using a quasi-archaeological approach, the article takes a case study of the works of Viollet-le-Duc and Ruskin, hypothesizing that photography unconsciously influenced their sense of perception and imagination to the point of renewing the art of architecture from this new aesthetic. …”
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Home, Degeneration and Decadence: Discursive Connections between Bénédict Morel and Eugène Viollet-le-duc by Aina Marti-Balcells

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La Sagrada Familia by Norbert Barbe

Subjects: “…Viollet-le-Duc…”
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La Sagrada Familia by Norbert Barbe

Subjects: “…Viollet-le-Duc…”
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Il “Medioevo ritrovato” di Eugène Viollet-le-Duc nel Palazzo dei Papi di Avignone by Dominique Vingtain

“…Il saggio ripercorre le vicende del progetto mai realizzato di Viollet-le-Duc per il restauro e la réaffectation del Palazzo di Papi di Avignone, tracciando un iniziale quadro delle importanti trasformazioni subite dall’edificio nel corso dei secoli e in particolare dopo il 1790 quando, estromesso il papato, la fabbrica fu trasformata in fortezza e poi in carcere. …”
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The ornament of the 1870s. In Search of original Russian Art (Victor Butovsky, Vladimir Stasov and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc) by Dany Savelli

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A Simulation Study to Calculate a Structure Conceived by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1850 with Finite Element Analysis by Adela Rueda Márquez de la Plata, Pablo Alejandro Cruz Franco

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Le Voyage d’Italie (1836-1837) of Viollet-le-Duc as a basic experience in his training as architect by Simonetta Valtieri

“…The essay analyses the influence of Viollet-le-Duc’s travels to Italy in his early training. …”
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Little Jean begins to see. Some notes from a book on drawing by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc by Gianfranco Neri

“…The massive, theoretical work of Viollet-le-Duc ends, in the year of his death, with a little book on drawing, Histoire d’un dessinateur. …”
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Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, Duke of Serradifalco and Eugéne Viollet-le-Duc: medieval apprenticeship and initiation to the “arte regia” by Ettore Sessa

“…When Viollet arrived in Palermo, Serradifalco was developing a process of revision of medieval Sicilian architecture, with the purpose of finding a “new architecture” for the future. Viollet-le-Duc became involved in this process. The essay underlines the similarities between the experience of Serradifalco and the contemporary activity of Viollet-le-Duc after his stay in Sicily. …”
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