Co-published with the German Center for Art History in Paris (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, DFK Paris), the collections PASSAGES and PASSERELLES bring together books in French and German on art from the Middle Ages to the present day. Both collections were founded in 1997 by Thomas W. Gaehtgens in parallel with the creation of the DFK Paris. Located in the heart of the French capital and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the institute is a forum for exchanging ideas between art historians around the world. French and German intellectual traditions engage here in a fruitful dialogue with currents of international thought, encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary research on art. The DFK Paris supports the dissemination and translation of research in the two languages by publishing the studies of researchers working at the institute as well as essays and monographs by international art historians so as to offer a diversity of methodological and historiographical approaches. Its publication programme thus covers a wide range of topics, such as artistic transfer phenomena and transregional questions, the art market, collectors and collections, architectural history, art theory, political iconography, and historical source editions.