Livres (collectifs) by Michel E. Fuchs
Les murs murmurent. Graffitis gallo-romains. Alix Barbet et Michel Fuchs (dir.), Catalogue d’exposition du Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy, Gollion : Infolio, 202 p., 2008
An exhibition on Gallo-Roman graffiti was mounted at the Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy to mark th... more An exhibition on Gallo-Roman graffiti was mounted at the Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy to mark the creation of the International Association for the Study of Minor Inscriptions, Ductus, which held its first symposium in Lausanne in 2008. For the first time, everyday objects engraved on ancient walls in France and Switzerland have been presented and catalogued, with commentaries by Alix Barbet and Michel E. Fuchs, with the collaboration of Laurent Flutsch and Lorraine Roduit, and contributions by Jean-Pierre Bost, Georges Fabre and Pierre-Yves Lambert. Latin and Greek drawings and writings recount the daily life of the Roman quidam: accounts, purchases, weights and dates, stylus exercises, reflections of games in the arena, evocations of hunting and nature, boats and fish, love, gods and offerings, words, everyday language and names engraved to leave a trace.
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Michel E. Fuchs, Benoît Dubosson (dir.), Theatra et spectacula. Les grands monuments des jeux dans l’Antiquité, Etudes de Lettres 1-2, 358 p., 2011
The great buildings of the games - theatres, amphitheatres and circuses - are among the most fami... more The great buildings of the games - theatres, amphitheatres and circuses - are among the most familiar monuments in the archaeological landscape. Despite their clearly recognisable silhouette and purpose, they never cease to give rise to questions and debate. This is borne out by the work carried out by Swiss researchers on the theatres and amphitheatres of Avenches, Augst, Lausanne and Alesia. The comparison of this research with that carried out in France, Luxembourg, Greece and Libya provided the opportunity for a round-table discussion held at the University of Lausanne on 22 and 23 May 2008. The origins and significance of these buildings, their history and architectural development, the different types of use they were put to, and the political and social role they played, are some of the issues addressed by the fifteen contributions in this volume.
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Archäologische Führer der Schweiz 31, Freiburg, 2000
Guide published on the occasion of the opening of the Roman Museum of Vallon, translated from fre... more Guide published on the occasion of the opening of the Roman Museum of Vallon, translated from french. The evolution of the building is outlined from its installation in the Julio-Claudian period to its disappearance in the Middle Ages. The two mosaics at the origin of its valorization are described next to the wall paintings, the domestic lararium, a material and vestiges illustrating each period revealed by the excavation since 1981.
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Michel Fuchs (coord.). Fresques romaines. Trouvailles fribourgeoises / Römische Fresken aus dem Kanton Freiburg. Fribourg, 1996
State of knowledge on Roman mural painting in the canton of Fribourg, from the oldest discoveries... more State of knowledge on Roman mural painting in the canton of Fribourg, from the oldest discoveries listed in 1778 at Cheyres to the recent ones at the villa of Vallon. The painted remains of the villas of Châtillon, Chiètres, Galmiz, Marly, Morat-Combette, Pont-la-Ville, Riaz-L'Etrey, Sorens and Vuadens are discussed. In addition, there are fragments of the red and black panel decoration of the ambulatory of the sanctuary of Riaz.
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Les enduits peints en Gaule romaine : approches croisées - RAE, 2012
To underline its thirty years of existence, in 2009 the French association for ancient wall paint... more To underline its thirty years of existence, in 2009 the French association for ancient wall paintings (AFPMA) brought together archaeologists and restorers (both experts and non-specialists) who have had to deal with fragmentary Roman wall paintings discovered in France and Switzerland. The proceedings of the symposium held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris are now available and document studies undertaken at Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, Augst, Avenches, Bayeux, Bordeaux, Cahors, Chartres, Chassenon, Damblain, Embourie, the Canton of Fribourg, Glelainville, Marseille, Martizay, Nîmes, Oberbuchsiten, Oberweningen, Périgueux, Le Quiou, Reims, Ribemont-sur-Ancre, Saint-Pierre-de-Nazac, Saint-Romain-en-Gal, Sanxay, Schleinikon and Vieil-Évreux. Whether found recently or in the past, the discoveries have been analyzed, studied and restored and added to databases currently being established, providing a vast collection of data that is indispensable to the archaeological and historical study of a site.
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Verena Fischbacher, Michel E. Fuchs (coord.), La Gazette du Laboratoire de conservation-restauration 6:Musée cantonal d'archéologie et d'histoire, Lausanne, 2006
After a brief history of mural painting research in Avenches and a presentation of the laboratory... more After a brief history of mural painting research in Avenches and a presentation of the laboratory's work, eight sets are presented according to the conservation-restoration problems encountered in situ or in the workshop, with a view to study or exhibition in a museum, in front of fragments, plaques or old restorations. The paintings in insula 3 (chalice crater and tufts of foliage on a pink background), insula 12 (decoration with plinth pilasters), insula 12 East House (yellow band with black fillets on a white background) and insula 10 East (white room with Eros and Psyche, Seasons, Still Life and Garlands) are discussed, insula 19 (barrier, vault and marine decoration), insula 7 (spindle ceiling decoration), insula 1 (candelabra and satyr on a yellow background) and insula 18 (“Red Room”).
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Actes du IIIe colloque Ductus, Association internationale pour l’étude des inscriptions mineures (Paris, EPHE, 22-24 octobre 2015), Monographies Instrumentum 65, Drémil Lafage, 249 p., 2020
In these proceedings of the third international symposium organized by Ductus, the International ... more In these proceedings of the third international symposium organized by Ductus, the International Association for the Study of Minor Inscriptions, in Paris in 2015, twenty-three contributions are brought together around paleographic models and the various modalities which condition the appearance of ancient graffiti. Specialists in everyday writing have looked at the choice of medium and instrument, the context of graffiti in public or domestic space, the motivations of the writer, the different uses of writing often utilitarian. Many graffiti presented are unpublished, discovered during archaeological excavations in Italy (Ostia, Stabiae, Parma, Sirmione, Verona ...) and in Gaul (Clermont-Ferrand, Compertrix, Rennes ...). Statistical and methodological studies complete the approach, prompting us to reflect on the place of writing in Roman civilization.
Keywords: ancient inscriptions - graffiti - cursive writing - everyday language - military graffiti - literacy - mural painting - inscriptions and drawings on stone - lead - ceramic - brick
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Catalogue d'exposition, Nyon, 1994
Excavated since 1904, a Roman villa located near the ancient Noviodunum, Colonia Julia Equestris,... more Excavated since 1904, a Roman villa located near the ancient Noviodunum, Colonia Julia Equestris, has yielded six groups of mural paintings. Five of them are attributable to the years 35-50 AD. One group with a white background with a red base, inter-panel uprights and garlands in the upper area is attributable to the second half of the 2nd century AD. One of the major decorations of the first period, a miniature cantharus from which a column of leaves, roses and fruit emerges, was long presented as a life-size restitution to the Swiss National Museum in Zürich, and has been incorporated in a new restitution more in keeping with known patterns. A brief description of the archaeological context and an account of physico-chemical analyses complete the information, along with the attestation of the use of the gold leaf.
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Meikirch: Villa romana, Gräber und Kirche, 2004
The excavations of a Roman villa at the origin of the church and of the village of Meikirch in th... more The excavations of a Roman villa at the origin of the church and of the village of Meikirch in the canton of Berne have revealed the remains of a cryptoportico, a central hall, rooms and small side buildings. Excavations and discovered material, including the tiles stamped with an L.C. PRISC, are published up to the tombs of the High Middle Ages and the construction and decoration phases of the current church. The description and interpretation of the eighteen panels restored from the paintings taken from the cryptoportico of the villa are widely discussed. The figured scenes were surmounted by Celt-Latin painted inscriptions and refer either to one or more local religious festivals or to word games put in pictures. Fragments have allowed the reconstruction of windows with edges painted with plant motifs. The whole is dated to the end of the 2nd century AD.
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Pour susciter le débat autour des sources en mouvance, nous avons proposé plusieurs entrées, parm... more Pour susciter le débat autour des sources en mouvance, nous avons proposé plusieurs entrées, parmi lesquelles je mentionne les suivantes :
• Remonter à la source ? le point de vue de la philologie.
• L’identification des sources en littérature, l’interprétation du phénomène
intertextuel.
• La comparaison des documents iconographiques et littéraires.
• Le problème du support : de la matérialité de la source à la constitution du sens.
• Les problèmes liés à l’interprétation contradictoire des sources selon leur typologie.
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Papers by Michel E. Fuchs
Antonella Coralini, Paolo Giulierini, Valeria Sampaolo, Francesco Sirano (ed.), Pareti dipinte : dallo scavo alla valorizzazione : atti del XIV Congresso internazionale dell'Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique (AIPMA), Napoli-Ercolano, 9-13 settembre 2019, Picta : ricerche ..., 2024
Reassembling the fragmentary: Swiss proposals
A history of the conservation-restoration of Roman ... more Reassembling the fragmentary: Swiss proposals
A history of the conservation-restoration of Roman wall paintings in Switzerland shows the attention given to fragmentary material from the end of the 18th century. Various major proposals are presented, from the paintings of the Commugny villa to those of the Vallon settlement, from the Avenches ensembles to those of Augst. Various restoration techniques are involved as well as several conservation choices in relation to workshops with evolving practices from the 1900s to 2015.
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Annuaire de la Société suisse de préhistoire et d’archéologie 80, p. 173-186, 1997
Consultation of the painted material collected in 1900 and 1968 from the Roman villa at Contigny-... more Consultation of the painted material collected in 1900 and 1968 from the Roman villa at Contigny-Champ d'Asile helps to clarify the context of the palindrome graffito in Greek letters from Lausanne. It was incised on a white-background panel framed by openwork borders dating from 60-80/90 AD. The painting covered a room in the center of the villa's pars urbana. The corridor in the villa's eastern wing contained numerous fragments of partly burnt paintings. Six sets were identified, reflecting the villa's decoration between 60 and 115 AD: green monochrome panels with black and blue frames, alternating black and red panels, yellow panels, black panels with blue frames follow one another, enhanced by openwork borders, plant motifs or figured friezes. The graffito is the mark of a student learning Greek as in Pompeii, the only other place where the palindrome is attested. It is a sign of the culture of the villa's owner, a Quintinius, whose name has survived in the toponym Contigny.
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Mireille Corbier, Michel E. Fuchs, Pierre-Yves Lambert, Richard Sylvestre (dir.), Graffites antiques, modèles et pratiques d’une écriture, Actes du 3e colloque Ductus, association internationale pour l’étude des inscriptions mineures, Monographies Instrumentum 65. Drémil Lafage, p. 41-56, 2020
The study of some epigraphic and figurative graffiti from sanctuaries or in connection with a dom... more The study of some epigraphic and figurative graffiti from sanctuaries or in connection with a domestic cult north of the Alps raises the question of whether the mark of a particular devotion emerges, whether formulas emerge. The inclusion of documents from Allonnes, Augst, Avenches, Châteauneuf and Nyon shows just how crucial the context in which they were found is to their interpretation.
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Julien Boislève, Mathilde Carrive, Florence Monier (dir.), Peintures et stucs d’époque romaine. Etudes toichographologiques, Actes du 31e colloque de l’AFPMA, Troyes, 23 et 24 novembre 2018, Pictor 9, Bordeaux, p. 101-116, 2021
A new study of paintings discovered in the nineteenth century on the site of Colombier in the can... more A new study of paintings discovered in the nineteenth century on the site of Colombier in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland led to recognize at least three large sets of fragments and no less than thirty-eight decorative groups. The fragments of four walls are now presented on panels in the Laténium Museum in Hauterive (Neuchâtel): A first decoration with a yellow background is distinguished by its winged feminine figure, its fine architectures and imitations of marble; a second decoration adopts red panels and black inter-panels decorated with umbels or crossed stems. A third setting offers a variation of the system while the fourth is a white background, red stripes and plant-like stems typical of the third century AD. Walls with red and black backgrounds, ceilings, the painting of a pillar and life-size figures still give the high tone of an imposing villa.
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Revue Historique Vaudoise 128, p. 161-173, 2020
The Pro Aventico Association was founded in 1885, marking the beginning of careful conservation ... more The Pro Aventico Association was founded in 1885, marking the beginning of careful conservation of the heritage of ancient Avenches/Aventicum. A set of statutes in line with the preoccupations of the time established the points that were to be followed and promulgated over more than a century by the association: arousing public interest, safeguarding the remains, publishing them and making them known, carrying out excavations, on the initiative and with the support of a committee and an assembly of members to which people from all over Switzerland and personalities such as General Guisan or Marguerite Yourcenar would belong. The various presidents who have succeeded one another at the head of the association reflect the concerns of their times, as do the directors of the Avenches Roman site and museum, right through to the publications of the Bulletins Pro Aventico.
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https://news.unil.ch/display/1701339737044, 2023
The project to study the fragments of painted plaster in Pompeii's House of the Painters at Work,... more The project to study the fragments of painted plaster in Pompeii's House of the Painters at Work, led by a team from the University of Lausanne's Institute of Archaeology and Ancient Sciences, is continuing thanks to an agreement with the Pompeii Archaeological Park. In November 2023, the ceiling decoration of a large room was partially understood, and collaboration with the European RePAIR project consolidated.
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Livres (collectifs) by Michel E. Fuchs
Keywords: ancient inscriptions - graffiti - cursive writing - everyday language - military graffiti - literacy - mural painting - inscriptions and drawings on stone - lead - ceramic - brick
• Remonter à la source ? le point de vue de la philologie.
• L’identification des sources en littérature, l’interprétation du phénomène
intertextuel.
• La comparaison des documents iconographiques et littéraires.
• Le problème du support : de la matérialité de la source à la constitution du sens.
• Les problèmes liés à l’interprétation contradictoire des sources selon leur typologie.
Papers by Michel E. Fuchs
A history of the conservation-restoration of Roman wall paintings in Switzerland shows the attention given to fragmentary material from the end of the 18th century. Various major proposals are presented, from the paintings of the Commugny villa to those of the Vallon settlement, from the Avenches ensembles to those of Augst. Various restoration techniques are involved as well as several conservation choices in relation to workshops with evolving practices from the 1900s to 2015.
Keywords: ancient inscriptions - graffiti - cursive writing - everyday language - military graffiti - literacy - mural painting - inscriptions and drawings on stone - lead - ceramic - brick
• Remonter à la source ? le point de vue de la philologie.
• L’identification des sources en littérature, l’interprétation du phénomène
intertextuel.
• La comparaison des documents iconographiques et littéraires.
• Le problème du support : de la matérialité de la source à la constitution du sens.
• Les problèmes liés à l’interprétation contradictoire des sources selon leur typologie.
A history of the conservation-restoration of Roman wall paintings in Switzerland shows the attention given to fragmentary material from the end of the 18th century. Various major proposals are presented, from the paintings of the Commugny villa to those of the Vallon settlement, from the Avenches ensembles to those of Augst. Various restoration techniques are involved as well as several conservation choices in relation to workshops with evolving practices from the 1900s to 2015.