Figurer l'apocryphe, ou la Vérité dévoilée par la peinture. Quelques iconographes du XIXe siècle face à l'image chrétienne,

Abstract

The study of the renewal of religious art in the XIXth century reveals an ambiguity inherent to Christian pictures of that period : Having been politically used - at least since the French Revolution - and trying to take up with the primitive Church, the Christian iconography has an apocryphal scent.