The interpretation and/or reception of local/regional antiquities (of Roman origin or stemming from other antique civilisations or of prehistoric times) Organisation Frédérique Lemerle (CNRS, CESR-Tours, UMR 7323)
Entre histoire, histoire de l’art, littérature et philosophie, en croisant les objets d’études et les problématiques, cette journée se propose de réfléchir à la place qu’occupe la création dans les différentes civilisations médiévales. Qui crée ? Qu’est-ce que créer ? Comment crée-t-on ?
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Programme
Vendredi 5 juin Université Paris-Sorbonne – Amphithéâtre Michelet
9h Accueil
9h15-9h30 Avant-Propos M. Dominique Boutet (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
9h30-10h Introduction Elise Banjenec (Univ. Paris- Sorbonne), Florian Besson (Univ. Paris-Sorbonne),Viviane Griveau-Grenest (Univ. Paris-Ouest Nanterre) et Julie Pilorget (Univ. Paris-Sorbonne)
10h-10h30 Florian Metral (Univ. Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne), Le Verbe en image. La figuration de l’acte créateur dans l’iconographie du commencement du monde . . . → En lire plus
Seeking paper proposals surrounding issues of comic portraiture in the Early Modern period. Optimally, we desire a range of examples related to the upper, middle, and lower classes, and self-portraits, plus other still-to-be-identified aspects of the comic in portraiture. Topics might include, but are certainly not limited to :
– Comic Displays of Power and Authority; – Self-Portraiture: the Artist as Comedian; – Comic Celebrity Portraits; – Theatrical Portraits and Popular Prints.
Proposals should include the author’s name, professional affiliation, and contact information; the paper’s title; a brief abstract (150 words or less); keywords; a one-page curriculum vitae; and any A/V requirements.
Please send proposals . . . → En lire plus
Le projet européen LexArt – WORDS FOR ART : The Rise of a Terminology (1600-1750), financé par l’ERC (European Research Council – Advanced Grant 2012) porte sur l’étude systématique du vocabulaire artistique tel qu’il s’élabore et se diffuse au Nord des Alpes au XVIIe siècle à partir des textes fondateurs italiens, puis se transforme en relation avec les pratiques artistiques en France, en Grande-Bretagne, aux Pays-Bas et dans les pays germaniques.
Le but du projet Lexart est de proposer à la communauté scientifique un instrument de travail nouveau conçu en trois volets : – Un dictionnaire encyclopédique de termes et de notions avec des entrées multilingues des correspondances en . . . → En lire plus
We seek contributions for an edited volume that aims to explore how spaces, images, and objects played a powerful role in codifying and conveying messages of self-fashioning for the multifold social groups of the Medicean State.
Early modern Tuscany—with the consolidation of Medici power as dukes and subsequently grand dukes, and the formation of new courtly social groups (newcomers, nobles, court officials) that fostered an increasingly ritualized society—offers an important opportunity to explore how different categories of people fashioned their identity and positioned themselves in the societal context through the display in their houses. How did artistic politics reflect, . . . → En lire plus
Le congrès annuel 2016 de la Renaissance Society of America (RSA) se tiendra à Boston, du 31 mars au 2 avril 2016. Neuf nouvelles sessions appellent à communication :
1. Crafting a Brussels Artistic Network in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1400-1750) 2. Monstrous Things 3. Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe 4. Artists and Friendship in the Renaissance 5. Artists and their Friends: New Questions and Ideas 6. The Spatial Politics of Architectural Barriers in Renaissance Europe 7. Art and the Emotions of Renaissance Women 8. Constructing Connections: Place and Identity in Early Modern Visual Culture 9. Rethinking the Rhetoric of Images
We’re pleased to announce an intoxicant-themed CFP for the Renaissance Society of America ‘s next Annual Conference, which will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, on 31 March−2 April 2016 . Full details below; don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or require further information.
Intoxicants and Early Modernity
This set of sessions welcomes papers or panels of papers relating to the topic of early modern intoxicants and intoxication. Our focus is on substances and commodities that induced mental and physiological changes and which were associated by contemporaries with ‘poisoning’, ‘fuddling’, and ‘drunkenness’. These . . . → En lire plus
Othello’s Island is an annual conference, now in its fourth year, examining the history, culture, art and literature of the medieval and renaissance periods from a multidisciplinary perspective. Located at the Centre for Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, the conference attracts academics and researchers from all over the world in a co-operative and constructive environment that has rapidly developed the reputation as one of the friendliest academic conferences in town. It is also seen as encouraging a genuine interdisciplinary approach as there is no streaming of different subjects and at recent events this . . . → En lire plus
In contradistinction to the biographical portion of the Lives, Giorgio Vasari’s “Introduction to the Three Arts of Design” has received relatively scant attention. This double session revisits the Introduction’s thirty chapters devoted to the materials and creative processes involved in the production and reception of a wide range of media, from stained glass to mosaics, gold ground to intarsia, painting on canvas to damask work. The aim of this session is to incorporate the Introduction into the larger corpus of scholarship on Vasari, early modern art theory, materiality, and pictorial composition.
Papers discussing the Introduction’s characterization of the so-called minor arts are particularly welcome. Please submit . . . → En lire plus
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Furioso’s first edition, this session aims to reassess the exchange of ideas, theories and modes of representation between epic poetry and the visual arts in the Cinquecento. We seek to extend our inquiry beyond the depiction of iconographic motifs from the Orlando or the Gerusalemme in order to investigate more broadly the intersection of visual and verbal worlds that characterized the production of epic and chivalric literature in the Renaissance. We welcome contributions that, rather than addressing issues of reception, seek to integrate the visual discourse within the culture in which Renaissance epic originated.
An essential aim . . . → En lire plus
The life, personality, career, and critical fortune of Jacopo Tintoretto, one of the preeminent painters of late-sixteenth-century Europe, continue to fascinate scholars and the public alike, as demonstrated by the steady stream of studies; major exhibitions in Madrid (2007), Boston and Paris (2009), and Rome (2012); and the release of a popular biography (2009). 2018/2019 will mark the five-hundredth anniversary of his birth; what more can be said about this (in)famously prolific and fiery painter?
In anticipation of the artist’s quincentenary celebration, we seek papers that explore new avenues in the interpretation of his work, times, and afterlife.
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La Renaissance Society of America (RSA) tiendra son 62e congrès à Boston du 31 mars au 2 avril 2016. Les propositions de session doivent parvenir à la RSA avant le vendredi 10 juin 2015. Les historiens de l’art, membres de la RSA, peuvent poster directement sujets et appels à communication sur le blog réservé à l’histoire de l’art en attendant l’ouverture du site dédié à la soumission des sessions vers le 15 mai.
Submission guidelines Please see our submission guidelines page for details. The submission site will open in mid-May, and the submission deadline is Wednesday, 10 June 2015. The Program Committee will not . . . → En lire plus
Giovan Paolo Lomazzo (1538‐1592) was the leading art theorist of late Cinquecento Milan, author of the influential Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura, Scoltura et Architettura (1584) and the Idea del Tempio della Pittura (1590), among other critical texts. As the abbot of the Accademia della Val di Blenio, his aesthetic principles contributed to lively debate within this artistic circle comprised of over hundred members including Annibale Fontana, Aurelio Luini and Scipione Delfinone. Yet, the extent to which Lomazzo’s doctrines were applied by his colleagues is still to be defined. Is it possible to pinpoint correlations between his theory and their artistic output? . . . → En lire plus
Art history and landscape studies have a common origin and shared scholarly trajectories, yet the extent of their reciprocal influence is by no means certain. This session aims to look both forward and back, exploring the fluctuating and sometimes problematic historical connections between art history and landscape studies while investigating the potential for more productive interchange between the two disciplines in the future.
In what ways could the close attention paid by landscape historians to environment, physical and social experience, spatial analysis, and mapping enhance the methods of art history? How might art historical emphases on materiality, viewing, cultural context, and artistic process contribute to landscape studies? What models does . . . → En lire plus
« L’invention partagée », expression que Michel Hérold a pu employer pour mettre en lumière la responsabilité plurielle de l’aspect des œuvres[1], est le thème général de ce colloque international qui entend réunir des spécialistes de tous domaines des arts décoratifs et visuels et de toutes périodes, afin de mieux cerner l’aspect collectif de la création ou de la production.
Tout au long du processus historique, on peut constater dans de nombreux cas des différences notables d’apparence dues à l’adaptation ou à l’exécution à partir des modèles d’origine. Dans les cas de . . . → En lire plus
Special Issue Renaissance Studies is an interdisciplinary issue that aims at discussing the intersections and cultural interactions of a range of fields including philosophy, religion, history, art, architecture, literature, astronomy, politics, medicine, archeology, and music, during the early modern period in Italy.
The volume searches for contributions that investigate the vast and multifaceted scenario of the culture of the Renaissance in Italy in all its contradictions from Late Antiquity to the middle of the seventeenth century, with a special focus on the complex set of negotiations between innovative production and its tension with the past. We welcome essays that rethink, through a multidisciplinary perspective, the on going dialogue . . . → En lire plus
Les 25 et 26 février 2016, dans le cadre des activités du groupe de contact du F.R.S.-FNRS « Modèles, échanges et réalisations artistiques (XVe-XVIe siècles) », aura lieu un colloque international dédié aux relations que le roi François Ier a entretenues avec les arts et la musique des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux. Cette manifestation, qui se tiendra à Bruxelles, à l’Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique (IRPA), sera organisée par l’Académie royale d’Archéologie de Belgique, le Comité belge d’Histoire de l’Art, l’IRPA et l’Université de Liège (Transitions. Département de recherches sur le Moyen Âge tardif et la première . . . → En lire plus
La loi Franceschini dite « Art bonus » a été promulguée en Italie en juillet 2014. Elle autorise désormais la photographie des oeuvres conservées dans les musées, et la libéralisation de la reproduction de l’ensemble du patrimoine artistique à des fins de recherche. Un amendement postérieur a néanmoins interdit la possibilité de photographier librement les manuscrits et les gravures dans les archives et dans les bibliothèques publiques. Les historiens de l’art ont lancé une pétition pour protester contre cette mesure paradoxale. On trouvera ci-dessous le texte de nos collègues italiens.
Vi chiedo di valutare l’opportunità di sottoscrivere una petizione a favore . . . → En lire plus
In The Global Eighteenth Century , Felicity Nussbaum and her contributors urged scholars to see the eighteenth century as ‘wide’: a period with a geographical as well as temporal sweep.Such a perspective, Nussbaum contended, would require different, more complex narratives of the people, events, systems, and discourses of the age. In the spirit of our namesake Aphra Behn, whose poetry, drama, plays, and translations reflect a complex awareness of a widening world, The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660–1830 takes up the challenge posed by The Global Eighteenth Century to invite papers exploring any . . . → En lire plus
The monthly on-line journal La Rivista di Engramma. The Classical Tradition in Western Memory (www.engramma.it) is preparing a special issue (summer 2015) on Aby Warburg and theater.
The theater is a recurrent innervating thread in the studies of Warburg, stimulating his early research on the Birth of Venus and Primavera by Sandro Botticelli (1893), and extending its branching presence as a theme in the Atlas Mnemosyne (1924 – 1929). The topic of our call is therefore articulated in two parts:
first, the dynamics of expressive gesture that led Warburg to coin the now well-known term Pathosformel (pathos formula), and reciprocal influences . . . → En lire plus
