Emile Bernard 1868-1941. Islam during the decline of the

during the decline of the ancient city

the French Institute of the Near East today pays tribute to one of its most eminent members

a French sculptor born in 1965

who exploited the site for nearly twenty years

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Emile Bernard 1868-1941. Islam during the decline of thePainter, engraver, but also art critic, writer and poet, mile Bernard is a major figure whose crucial place in the development of modern art has not always been recognized. At the end of the 1880s, he inaugurated the cloisonnist style, dialoguing with Gauguin and Van Gogh within the center of pictorial innovation that was then Pont Aven. After the controversy over the invention of symbolism in painting, which in 1891 violently pitted him against