Journal Zodiac would be 60 years in 2011, is tomorrow. So there 60 years born a journal without pretension, without funding, but whose sole purpose was to talk about Roman art, banal subject for most people in the villages of France, and make them aware their inheritance. There is now talk of Roman heritage.
could compare this phenomenon to that of Prosper Merimee, which has raised awareness that heritage that we deserved the save, rather than demolish it because the buildings were no longer in vogue.
And yet, where would be for the interest in Romanesque art in France if it were not Zodiac? There would certainly not have saved so many churches.
Zodiac has done a tremendous job and has largely contributed to the awareness and understanding of remote and periods if that were not considered Conventional compared with periods of antiquity.
And this monumental work, more than 400 books published with the assistance of many scholars like Raymond Oursel Durliat Marcel, Jean-Maurice Rouquette, Jacques Fontaine and Francoise Henry, to name a few, an initiative of fans gave great things that you can still see today.
But alas, the publisher no longer exists and there is no strong link between the fans and scholars around a common project which serves to both, there is more than scattered projects that have no unifying center. And yet, at the time of concreting, destruction and reconstruction in a hurry, this is the moment that there is one voice that is heard
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is this work that we have seen born in Spain by association Amigos del Romanico which unites researchers and amateurs, but we lack in France now.
Hopefully in 2011 he can revive the spirit that was born a few years ago in France and we are so lacking now.
Merry Christmas to all,
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