Georges A. Bertrand
Dr Georges A. Bertrand, graduate from the Sorbonne University and former student of “Ecole du Louvre”, is writer and photographer. He works on the incessant exchanges between the cultures of Europe and Asia, in both time and space and the aesthetic links uniting the Muslim world to the Christian world. He has published several books as art historian and/or photographer. He has held senior positions at several universities in the Arab world and his work is now presented at various international academic conferences.
Muslim aesthetic traces in Christian architecture in France
In the Middle Ages in the West, mainly in the Romanesque period, aesthetic relationships, among others, existed despite confrontations between Muslim and Christian worlds. In fact, art has always been a link between people. The transmission of patterns proves the reality of exchanges that took place between two seemingly fundamentally different conceptions of the world. We know the role played by the Muslim civilisation in the field of science, but it is also prevalent in art.
Georges A. Bertrand has a different perception of the French heritage. For him, its beauty can help to understand the diverse and profound unity of humankind. That artistic dimension will be exposed further in this lecture, using maps, photographs and drawings, showing the reality of ties between East and West.