{"id":5851,"date":"2009-08-05T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2009-08-05T04:55:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T03:55:41","slug":"the-art-of-julien-champagne-1877%e2%80%931932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/05\/the-art-of-julien-champagne-1877%e2%80%931932\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Julien Champagne, 1877\u20131932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archerjulienchampagne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/champagne1.jpg\" alt=\"champagne1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An obscure occult artist even among catalogues of obscure occult artists, Julien Champagne (also listed as Jean-Julian) is known principally for his associations with the persistently elusive 20th century alchemist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fulcanelli\" target=\"_blank\">Fulcanelli<\/a>. Champagne provided a frontispiece (below) for Fulcanelli&#8217;s examination of architectural symbolism, <em>Le Myst\u00e8re des Cath\u00e9drales<\/em> (1926), and is continually rumoured to have been Fulcanelli himself. Whatever the solution to that mystery, the alchemist&#8217;s book is rather more visible than the artist&#8217;s distinctly Symbolist paintings. There&#8217;s a French blog devoted to his life and works <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archerjulienchampagne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> but little else around. I wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing a decent online gallery of his pictures at some point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duepassinelmistero.com\/_borders\/Fulcanelli-_Julien_Champagne.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/champagne2.jpg\" alt=\"champagne2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/01\/digital-alchemy\/\">Digital alchemy<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/07\/11\/the-art-of-pamela-colman-smith-1878\u20131951\/\">The art of Pamela Colman Smith, 1878\u20131951<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/09\/the-art-of-andrey-avinoff-1884\u20131949\/\">The art of Andrey Avinoff, 1884\u20131949<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/16\/the-art-of-cameron-1922-1995\/\">The art of Cameron, 1922\u20131995<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/15\/austin-osman-spare\/\">Austin Osman Spare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obscure occult artist even among catalogues of obscure occult artists, Julien Champagne (also listed as Jean-Julian) is known principally for his associations with the persistently elusive 20th century alchemist Fulcanelli. Champagne provided a frontispiece (below) for Fulcanelli&#8217;s examination of architectural symbolism, Le Myst\u00e8re des Cath\u00e9drales (1926), and is continually rumoured to have been Fulcanelli &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/05\/the-art-of-julien-champagne-1877%e2%80%931932\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Julien Champagne, 1877\u20131932&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,16,44,45],"tags":[559,2469,316,621,620,547,445],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-occult","category-painting","category-symbolists","tag-alchemy","tag-austin-osman-spare","tag-austin-spare","tag-fulcanelli","tag-julien-champagne","tag-pamela-colman-smith","tag-skulls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1wn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}