Livre de poissons. 1580. Arts The mental and dreamlike universe

The mental and dreamlike universe of medieval man: from Chartres to Normandy

is a professor of anthropobiology at the University of Toulouse-III and directs the "Molecular Anthropology and Synthetic Imaging" laboratory

Exposition «La fabrique des collections« : dans le prolongement de la saison d'inauguration d'un musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon «métamorphosé«

his works reflect the memory of our times

Between the age of 23 and his death at 74

Livre de poissons. 1580. Arts The mental and dreamlike universeThere are certain works that are worlds in their own right. The Book of Fishes (Visboeck, in Dutch) by Adriaen Coenen (1514 1587) is one of them. After living his entire life by the sea, as a fisherman, then as an auctioneer at the Scheveningen auction, Adriaen Coenen, at the age of 63, undertook the creation, between 1577 and 1580, of his Book of Fishes, a unique work, in the full sense of the word, exceptional, where each page reveals astonishing