The 19th century chromatic turn - CHROMOTOPE

Project Information

CHROMOTOPE

Grant agreement ID: 818563

DOI

10.3030/818563

Project closed

EC signature date 8 February 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 884 867,00

EU contribution

€ 1 884 867,00

Coordinated by

SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
France

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Publications

Monographic books (3)

John Singer Sargent : Le beau monde et son revers

Author(s): C. Ribeyrol, I. Gadoin, E. Eells
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-2-36749-129-5
Publisher: Cohen&Cohen

William Burges's Great Bookcase and The Victorian Colour Revolution

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol, Tea Ghigo
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Yale University Press London

Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol, Matthew Winterbottom, Madeline Hewitson
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

New synthetic black dyes: their discovery, production and everyday use (1859-1930)

Author(s): Irene Bilbao Zubiri
Published in: Technè, Issue 55, 2023, Page(s) 96-105, ISSN 2534-5168
Publisher: Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France
DOI: 10.4000/techne.17661

Colour Translation and Aniline Exchanges in the Early History of Japonisme

Author(s): C. Ribeyrol, S-M. Evangelista
Published in: Studies in Japonisme, Issue 44, 2024, Page(s) 91-103, ISSN 1344-2198
Publisher: Society for the Study in Japonisme

‘Material Characterisation of William Burges’ Great Bookcase within the Disruption of a Global Pandemic

Author(s): Tea Ghigo, Daniel Bone, David Howell, Kelly Domoney, Michel Gironda, Andy Beeby
Published in: Studies in Conservation, Issue 69, 2022, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 2047-0584
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2022.2153463

Back to Black: A fashionable colour from Worth to Chanel

Author(s): Alessandra Ronetti
Published in: Technè, Issue 56, 2023, Page(s) 62-71, ISSN 2750-6185
Publisher: Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France
DOI: 10.4000/techne.18504

Verdeurs: Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, and the Colors of Decadence

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol
Published in: Victorian Literature and Culture, Issue Volume 49 , Special Issue 4: Special Issue: Scales of Decadence, Winter 2021, 2021, Page(s) 753-775, ISSN 1060-1503
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1060150320000261

Colour

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol
Published in: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, Issue 100 Automne, 2025, ISSN 0220-5610
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/132r0

Giving a New Status to a Dyes Collection: A Contribution to the Chromotope Project

Author(s): Irene Bilbao Zubiri, Anne-Laure Carré
Published in: Heritage Science, Issue 6, 2023, Page(s) 2202-2219, ISSN 2050-7445
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/heritage6020117

Colour reception(s): The Narrative of the Exhibition “Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design” (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21 September 2023-18 February 2024)

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol
Published in: Sillages critiques, Issue 36, 2025, ISSN 1272-3819
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/120ml

Book chapters (10)

Fin-de-siècle Tanagras 

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol
Published in: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, 2023, Page(s) 204-211
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications

Retrouver les couleurs du passé à l’ère des colorants d’aniline, une étude de cas : la Grande Bibliothèque de William Burges (1859-1862)

Author(s): C. Ribeyrol
Published in: Polychromie. Regards Croisés sur l'usage, l'emploi et la matérialité de la polychromie dans les sociétés anciennes, Issue @rcheovision 1, 2025, Page(s) 69-82, ISBN 978-2-35613-457-8
Publisher: Ausonius Éditions

Colour matters: reading the materiality of the Great Bookcase

Author(s): Tea Ghigo
Published in: William Burges's Great Bookcase and the Victorian Colour Revolution, 2023, ISBN 978-0-300267-97-6
Publisher: Yale University Press London

Queer Colours

Author(s): Stefano Maria Evangelista
Published in: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, 2023, Page(s) 197-203
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publication

‘The Gothic school of colour’: Reviving the Hues of the Middle Ages 

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol
Published in: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, 2023, Page(s) 43-58
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications

Religion and Ritual

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol
Published in: The Cultural History Series, Cultural history of color in the age of industry, Issue Volume 5, 2021, Page(s) 89-109
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Colour for Colour's Sake

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol, Stefano Maria Evangelista
Published in: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, 2023, Page(s) 173-191
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications

Object in Focus. The Great Bookcase: between Medieval and Victorian Colour

Author(s): Tea Ghigo
Published in: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design Catalogue, 2023
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications

The ‘Age of Colour’ : Victorian Britain (1837-1901)  

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol, Matthew Winterbottom
Published in: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, 2023, Page(s) 17-30
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications

‘Wedding archaeology with art’: The Rediscovery of Ancient Polychromy 

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol, Stefano Maria Evangelista
Published in: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, 2023, Page(s) 131-142
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications

Other (1)

Comment la couleur est devenue un enjeu majeur de l’histoire de l’art

Author(s): Stella Granier
Published in: 2023, ISSN 2431-2134
Publisher: The Conversation

Conference proceedings (1)

Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited

Author(s): Charlotte Ribeyrol
Published in: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, 2023
Publisher: 97 Printemps
DOI: 10.4000/cve.12794