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Three new databases
We’ve been announcing it for a long time, but this time it’s done: our databases are being enriched, and no fewer than three new ones will be added to the existing Stella database, which lists works conserved in public monuments (and some châteaux), mainly in French churches.
We will try to explain the principle, which is actually quite simple.
There is in fact only one database. But it can be divided into several databases, and the same work can be found in several different databases. So we have created :
– the database we now call Flandrin; this will list French and Belgian religious works (because many Belgian artists such as François-Joseph Navez, Louis Gallait and Henri Decaisne are very close to the French) from the 19th century,…