En 1979, l’exposition Charles De Wailly, peintre architecte dans l’Europe des Lumières mettait sur le devant de la scène une des figures majeures de l’architecture du XVIIIe siècle, distinguée notamment par la construction de la Comédie-Française avec Marie-Joseph Peyre. Depuis ce travail fondateur mené par Michel Gallet, Monique Mosser et Daniel Rabreau, d’autres chercheurs ont apporté leur pierre à l’édifice au travers de nouvelles études consacrées à ses théâtres (M. Sajous d’Orjas, Y. Brault, N. Bouchon, Ch. Loir, H. Volle), à ses projets d’urbanisme (J. Pronteau, Ch. Loir, G. Larguier), à ses demeures françaises (Y. Beauvalot, B. Pons, N. Francoeur, P. Pinon, Ph. Cachau, . . . → En lire plus
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Two Japanese Women Posing with Laundry, 1870s, silver print photograph from glass negative with applied colour, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.100.505.1 (39b) Appel à communication : « A History of Textile Cleanliness: Washing and Perfuming Fabrics from the Medieval to the Modern Period » – 28-29 May 2026 – Institute of Art History, University of Bern, Switzerland International conference organized by Moïra Dato (University of Bern) and Érika Wicky (Université Grenoble-Alpes / LARHRA). Scientific committee: Olivier David (Institut Lavoisier / Paris Saclay), Aziza Gril-Mariotte (Musée des Tissus, Lyon / Université Aix), . . . → En lire plus Appel à communication : « Iconographie et numérique en histoire de l’art médiéval : Transformations épistémologiques et méthodologiques » (Lille, IRHiS, 19 novembre 2025)
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Session organisée par Ilaria Andreoli, (INHA, Paris), Paris & Kelley Di Dio (University of Vermont) This session aims to create a space for emerging scholars (recent Ph.D.s or Ph.D. candidates) to present their work. The intention is to provide new scholars with a forum to present their work, possibly for the first time at an international conference. Panelists will receive mentorship in preparation for the panel, including receiving constructive feedback from senior scholars in their area of expertise in advance of the conference. Proposals . . . → En lire plus
Ces deux journées d’étude sont organisées par Daniele Rivoletti (Université Clermont Auvergne/Institut universitaire de France), Frédéric Tixier (Université de Lorraine, Nancy) et Christine Descatoire (musée de Cluny-musée national du Moyen Âge), et se tiendront à Paris (musée de Cluny et Institut National d’Histoire de l’art) les 8 et 9 décembre 2025. Elles sont en lien avec l’exposition Le Moyen Âge du XIXe siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux, qui aura lieu au musée de Cluny du 7 octobre 2025 au 11 janvier 2026 (commissaires : Christine Descatoire . . . → En lire plus 
La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia, Padiglione Centrale dei Giardini, 29 aout- 8 décembre 2020). Fièvre des archives dans l’exposition : intertextualités critiques, politiques et pratiques de display entre la Guerre froide et la contemporanéité globale (Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès, 4-5 décembre 2025) [English version below] En 2020 a eu lieu Le muse inquiete. La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia [Les muses inquiètes. La Biennale de Venise face à l’histoire], une exposition conçue comme un moment de réflexion sur l’histoire plus que centenaire de la Biennale de Venise. À partir . . . → En lire plus
Building Sites in Early Modern Europe (c.1400-1700). The CSCA (Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture) is inviting papers for its forthcoming conference on Building Sites in Early Modern Europe (c. 1400-1700), to be held 4-6 June 2026 at Downing College, Cambridge. This international academic conference explores the building site in early modern Europe and its networks (c. 1400–1700) as a place for production, exchange, and transmission in the history of art and architecture. Far from being mere spaces of construction, building sites functioned as dynamic laboratories where ideas, knowledge, cultures, technologies, skills, and social structures intersected. Building sites, in this way, acted as contact zones for the transfer of both practical and theoretical knowledge. Europe’s ‘builder’ patrons, including the Medici, Pope Julius II, François . . . → En lire plus 
Le muse inquiete. La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia, Padiglione Centrale dei Giardini, 29 aout- 8 décembre 2020). Fièvre des archives dans l’exposition : intertextualités critiques, politiques et pratiques de display entre la Guerre froide et la contemporanéité globale (Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès, 4-5 décembre 2025) [English version below] En 2020 a eu lieu Le muse inquiete. La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia [Les muses inquiètes. La Biennale de Venise face à l’histoire], une exposition conçue comme un moment de réflexion sur l’histoire plus que centenaire de la Biennale de Venise. . . . → En lire plus
After delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are delighted to at last convene on the West Coast of North America in the « City by the Bay. » Because of the rescheduling, please note that this conference will take place on an unusually early weekend for us, February 19–21, 2026. All sessions will be held in the hotel, just two blocks from Union Square and within walking distance of the city’s acclaimed Chinatown. San Francisco’s . . . → En lire plus The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures. The Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum and the Institute of Classical Studies are inviting proposals for contributions to a conference exploring the past impact and future potential of the Museum’s collections from the ancient Mediterranean world, scheduled to take place in-person at Senate House, London, on 25th-27th February 2026. This conference is being organised in the context of the British Museum’s ‘Masterplan’, a once-in-a-century opportunity to redisplay and re-interpret the collections from the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, Assyria and the Middle East for twenty-first century publics. The Department of Greece and Rome is one of the Museum’s curatorial departments leading this work. To avoid the repetition of old narratives, and to ensure that the redisplay . . . → En lire plus Renaissance Ecologies – 7th Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies. Conference organised by the Early Modern Seminar at the Faculty of Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 8-10 October, 2026 Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis. The relationship between humans on the one hand and climate and the animate world on . . . → En lire plus
In 1960, Franco-American art collectors and philanthropists Jean and Dominique de Ménil initiated the Menil Archive of ‘The Image of the Black in Western Art’ (IBWA). Originally started in Paris and then expanded with an office in Houston, the IBWA research project resulted in two visual archives of photographs. Collected between 1960 and the 1990s, the photographs document paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, decorative arts, and other objects depicting people of African heritage in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, early modern and modern European and American art, as well as art created by . . . → En lire plus Appel à communication : « Métamorphoses du récit dans la peinture contemporaine » (Bordeaux, 17 octobre 2025) Alors que la Figuration narrative portait volontiers un discours politique, la Figuration libre a plutôt utilisé le récit comme dispositif de mise en abyme du médium pictural, permettant de revendiquer une appartenance contemporaine. Depuis les années 2000, la nouvelle génération de peintres figuratifs assume plus directement le médium et porte plus ouvertement des discours mettant en valeur la pluralité des appartenances et des identités. Ce nouveau retour à la peinture s’accompagne-t-il d’un renouvellement des récits portés par la peinture ou des discours sur la pratique picturale ? Les propositions pourront interroger la notion même de retour, avec en France au moins trois occurrences depuis une quarantaine d’années : au début des années 1980 . . . → En lire plus  Appel à communication : « Un Duchamp peut en cacher un autre. Jeux de mots et d’images » (Cergy, 20 novembre 2025)
Appel à communication pour la journée d’étude du jeudi 20 novembre 2025 à Cergy Université 33, Boulevard du Port, 95000 Cergy Organisation Laboratoire Héritages (UMR 9022, CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, ministère de la Culture), Centre d’Anthropologie Culturelle (UPR 4545, CANTHEL, Université Paris Cité) et Maison de la Recherche SHS Annie Ernaux (Cergy-Pontoise) L’œuvre de Marcel Duchamp suscite depuis toujours d’infinis commentaires et d’innombrables pages . . . → En lire plus
Appel à communication : « Je considère la fibre comme l’élément fondateur qui construit le monde organique de notre planète, comme le plus grand mystère de notre environnement. C’est à partir de la fibre que . . . → En lire plus
Au début du XXe siècle, alors que l’histoire de l’art se structure en tant que discipline, plusieurs universitaires entreprennent de défendre une vision radicalement régionaliste et anti-étatique de l’art français, considéré comme le produit de « petites patries » spoliées durant des siècles par la capitale et la culture de cour. À l’intérieur de la Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie fondée par Jacques Doucet, André Girodie (1874-1946), éminent représentant de cette tendance, souvent cité mais peu étudié, coordonne la réalisation d’un grand projet illustrant les thèses régionalistes : une série de Dictionnaires des . . . → En lire plus The Words of Vitruvius: Between Archaeological Findings and Vulgarizations. Fano, Centro Studi Vitruviani, Oct 16–17, 2025 Deadline: Jun 15, 2025 Besides representing a testimony of extraordinary relevance for the knowledge of construction techniques and theoretical principles of the art of building according to the Romans and Greeks, Vitruvius’ De Architectura contains a lexical repertoire of notable extent and complexity, fundamental for the reconstruction of the ancient architectural vocabulary and for the investigating the link between language, building practices and the transmission of knowledge. But how did these relations evolve over time? And how has the degree of understanding of Vitruvian terms changed, affecting their transcription, translation and interpretation? The conference moves from the purpose of exploring these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective, sifting the Vitruvian lexicon in its multiple . . . → En lire plus EXHIBITING THE HOLOCAUST 1945–2025: GENEALOGIES AND LEGACIES Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Nov 13–14, 2025 Deadline: Jun 30, 2025 The first exhibitions on the Holocaust were organized in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. These were mostly created by survivors, either individually or through newly established institutions such as historical commissions, which were active in many DP camps and across Europe. These early exhibitions presented materials gathered to document the persecution and genocide of Jews in Europe. This unprecedented effort laid the groundwork for the establishment of memorials and museums in later decades and shaped the display strategies of future exhibitions. This conference seeks to look back and historicize the practice of Holocaust exhibitions from 1945 to the present, reflecting on different strategies, genealogies, and legacies. . . . → En lire plus Women in Photography 1839-1939 Practitioners, Labourers, Entrepreneurs in a Global Perspective. Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Nov 20–21, 2025 Deadline: Jun 15, 2025 Final conference of PRIN 2022 PNRR NextGenerationE U funded project Fotografiste: Women in Photography from Italian Archives, 1839-1939, conduced by IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (PI) and Brera Academy of Fine Arts Milan. Why are there so few women in the history of photography? Scholarly contributions have highlighted the obstacles that hindered women’s success in photography, as well as the ideological foundations of photographic history that have kept them invisible within dominant narratives. Despite this, the role of women in photography remains under-researched, particularly on those practitioners active between the invention of the medium around 1839 and the outbreak of World War II . . . → En lire plus  Journée d’étude – Cultural Crossroads: Artistic Encounters between the Low Countries and Spain, 15th-17th Centuries. III. Echoes of Flemish Sculpture in Spain from Gothic to Baroque. Since 2020, the Moll Institute (Madrid) and the Fondation Périer-D’Ieteren (Brussels) have been conducting a research program aimed at identifying and studying the art that developed in the Low Countries between the 15th and 17th centuries and that is preserved in Spanish collections. As part of this collaboration, a series of study days has been organized since 2023 to stimulate and disseminate research conducted in this field. The . . . → En lire plus |
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