Bertrand Prévost is an art historian and philosopher and is Maître de conferences at the University of Bordeaux. He has worked mainly on Renaissance Italian art and theory, including the publications: La peinture en actes. Gestes et manières dans l’Italie de la Renaissance (Actes Sud, 2007); Botticelli. Le manège allégorique (Ed. 1:1, 2011); and Peindre sous la lumière. Leon Battista Alberti et le moment humaniste de l’évidence (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013). His research focuses on an aesthetic theory of expression, based on an expanded notion of cosmetics.