The Decorative Arts II – Fondation Gandur pour l’Art

Fabienne Fravalo has a doctorate in art history and has been curator of the decorative arts collection at the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art since 2015. She also edited the collection’s first catalogue in 2020. A specialist in the decorative arts and critical debate around 1900, she is the author of several articles and books, including: Art et Décoration, une revue entre deux siècles (1897-1914). De l’Art nouveau à un art décoratif moderne (2023). Caroline Heering is Professor of Art History at the Catholic University of Leuven and co-director of GEMCA (Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis). Her research focuses on 17th-century art in the former Southern Netherlands and on the theoretical, historical and formal aspects of decoration in architecture, painting, sculpture, the liturgical arts and Baroque performing arts. Sophie Mouquin is a university lecturer (Bordeaux from 2004 to 2007, Lille since 2007) and was Director of Studies at the École du Louvre (2011-2016). She specializes in the decorative arts, ornamentation and the history of taste in the 17th and 18th centuries and is the author of several books, including Le Style Louis XV (2003) and Les Arts décoratifs en Europe, de la Renaissance à l’Art déco (2020), and numerous articles, as well as contributing chapters to collective works.