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From 1942 to 1954, Sister Jacques-Marie, initially Monique Bourgeois, retraces her encounter with Henri Matisse, which led to the creation of the Rosary Chapel in Vence (Provence, France). The last and final project of the artist, it corresponds to the culmination of his work. About the chapel, Henri Matisse declared: «This work required four years of exclusive and assiduous work, and it is the result of my entire active life. Despite all its imperfections, I consider it as my masterpiece.” In her text, Sister Jacques-Marie recounts the friendship and complicity she shared with the painter over the years, from which emerged the masterpiece that is the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence. Reproductions of drawings by Matisse, unpublished archive photographs, accompanied by excerpts from the painter’s correspondence, as well as a preface by Zia Mirabdolbaghi, the director of the Château de Villeneuve, and Dominique Szymusiak, the former curator of the Matisse Museum in Cateau-Cambrésis, complete the text.

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Articles 56-59 of Henry of Ghent's Summa is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most important Christian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. Henry's Quaestiones ordinariae (Summa), articles 56-59 deal with the trinitarian properties and relations, topics of Henry's lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles, dated around 1286, Henry treats generation, a property unique to the Father, and being generated, a property unique to the Son. The university in Paris distributed articles 56-59 by means of two successive exemplars divided into peciae. Manuscripts copied from each have survived and the text of the critical edition has been established based upon the reconstructed texts of these two exemplars.

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The Barrandov Studios are one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe. For more than 80 years so far, the studios have been the location of choice for over 2,500 Czech and International films. Barrandov’s founding fathers, the Havel brothers Vàclav and Milo. (the grandfather and uncle of later president Vàclav Havel), built the ‘Hollywood of Eastern Europe’ in the 1930s. A legendary studio like this – and its story – has so far not been told to an English-speaking readership. This collection aims to correct this, presenting the studio’s rich history, its esteemed directors, and their most important films.

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