En proposant de regrouper sous le vocable d’art mosan les œuvres qu’il avait pu admirer à l’exposition de Liège de 1881, l’archéologue français Charles de Linas ne faisait en réalité que reprendre à son compte une hypothèse qui se trouvait déjà en gestation depuis quelques décennies dans l’esprit de quelques érudits locaux. Loin de faire l’unanimité, jugée caduque dès les premiers débats, cette appellation, rapidement érigée au rang de discipline scientifique, allait pourtant résister au temps, aux aléas de l’histoire et aux influences délétères de la politique nationale et . . . → En lire plus
AVISTA sponsored session at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, 2016: The Long Lives of Medieval Objects, from Big to Small
Traditional histories often privilege the moment of an object’s origin, whether it be the design of a building, the production of a manuscript, or the creation of decorative arts, ritual or mundane. Yet medieval objects have long and expansive lives that defy the period and geographic boundaries set by academic disciplines. Many medieval objects have extended prehistories emerging from their sites and contexts of creation, and most medieval objects have undergone a variety of interventions and adaptations since coming into being. The lives of these objects have been further extended through historiography and digital . . . → En lire plus
CFP, ICMS (“Kalamazoo”) 2016: Gendered Spaces Hortulus-sponsored session Session organizer and presider: Melissa Ridley Elmes, co-editor of Hortulus The concept of gendered spaces—areas in which particular genders and types of gender expression are considered welcome or appropriate while other gender types are unwelcome or inappropriate—is a key element in the study of human geography. Gendering spaces is one way in which social systems maintain the organization of gender, and can preserve and dictate the accepted norms of gendered behavior, as well as relationships and hierarchies between men and women. Studying gendered spaces—environments, landscapes, and other places that have been designated specifically for “men” . . . → En lire plus
Speaking Sculpture: Images and their Potency
Organizers: Lloyd de Beer, British Museum Julia Perratore, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Do sculptures speak? Can they listen? Are they able to read, sing, and engage with other sculptures, or the architecture of their surroundings? If so, is this connected to their context and placement? How do these questions affect the way in which we view sculpture and its performativity?
In seeking to answer these and related questions, this session will address the manifold ways in which sculpture could potentially address its viewers, and, by extension, listen. The interactive nature of much medieval art, and particularly sculpture, suggests that viewers’ . . . → En lire plus
Questions of the significance of materials now occupy a central place within medieval art history. Within this material turn, attention has generally been centered on the importance and meaning of individual materials, particularly luxury materials, such as gold, silver, ivory, and gemstones. But how were these—and other—materials evaluated relative to each other? That is to say, to what extent did material hierarchies obtain, both in theory and in (artistic) practice? This session investigates hierarchies of materials and media in medieval art from Late Antiquity through the end of the fourteenth century. It seeks to build upon the burgeoning body of . . . → En lire plus
Appel à communication : « Early Medieval Graphicacy in a Comparative Perspective » (Oslo, juin 2016)
This conference is the last of a series for the Graphicacy and Authority in Early Medieval Europe Project. The aim of the project has been to gather scholars from a wide range of disciplines to discuss the increasing role of non-figural graphic devices across a wide range of media, from manuscripts to architecture and mass-produced objects.
Visual communication in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages is conventionally analysed using methods specific to either figural imagery (and visualcy of the past) or literary productions (and literacy). In contrast, our project focuses on non-figural graphic devices which are intermediaries between texts and pictures, and which appear . . . → En lire plus
Cette session se fixe pour objectif d‘établir un vaste panorama des théories et pratiques de la perception des images au Moyen Âge, incluant les images non matérialisées comme les ekphraseis ou les rêves. Les sources écrites attestent des pratiques de perception les plus diverses. Ces témoignages sur la réception montrent que le potentiel de sens des images ne se réalise qu’en partie selon le mode de perception choisi – mouvement, immobilité, contexte à forte charge synesthétique du rite liturgique. C’est justement sur cette tension entre une perception à la fois calculée et échappant à un contrôle total que nous entendons nous concentrer dans . . . → En lire plus
Art historians traditionally focus on the finished work, yet attention to the creative process of making allows us to consider how medieval builders and artisans constructed monuments, made objects, and planned workflow for large-scale projects. Furthermore, this line of inquiry allows us to consider spatial planning and haptic encounters. The use of new technologies such as digital reconstructions, laser scans, 3D printing, and other imaging tools provides scholars with the opportunity to understand the conceptual processes of art making in the Middle Ages as never before through reverse engineering.
Recent art-historical scholarship has reintroduced interest in the materiality/object-ness of medieval art and . . . → En lire plus
Proposals for papers are invited for The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Sight and Visual Perception, which aims to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for researchers with an interest in the history of the senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. University College Dublin, 11-12 March 2016.
The history of the senses is a rapidly expanding field of research. Pioneered in Early Modern and Modern studies, it is now attracting attention also from Medieval and Renaissance specialists. Preoccupation with the human senses and with divine control over them is evident in a range of narrative texts, scientific treatises, creative . . . → En lire plus
Les études sur le monachisme féminin en France au Moyen Âge apparaissent actuellement éparses, parfois datées et même en marge par rapport aux études sur le milieu monacal masculin. De plus, une approche historique semble privilégiée à l’histoire de l’art et à l’archéologie. Actuellement, les travaux du Centre Européen de Recherche sur les Congrégations et les Ordres Religieux (CERCOR), rattaché à l’Université Jean-Monnet de Saint-Étienne, comptent parmi les références majeures et les plus actualisées sur le sujet. Si les actes du deuxième colloque international du CERCOR, Les religieuses dans le cloître et dans le monde, datant de 1994, rassemblent diverses contributions axées principalement sur l’histoire, la . . . → En lire plus
Chiaroscuro since Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura (1435) has been one of the central subjects characterising painting and sculpture in practice and theory in Italy. Primarily, it concerns the articulation of plastic qualities, the formulation of relief, both in painting and sculpture. In the northern tradition, too, chiaroscuro has been highly valued. Through chiaroscuro, the textures of materials and the structural fabric of their surfaces, including their eye-catching highlights, have been evoked. Chiaroscuro goes hand in hand with an intensification of optical qualities.
In the Cinquecento, the significance of chiaroscuro underwent an important change. The evocation of plasticity and corporeality through . . . → En lire plus
Session at 51. Int. Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 12-15 May 16) University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI (USA), May 12 – 15, 2016
Deadline: Sep 15, 2015
New Perspectives on Medieval Rome (2 Sessions) Organizers: Marius B. Hauknes, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Alison Locke Perchuk, Assistant Professor of Art History, California State University Channel Islands Digital, environmental, material, Mediterranean, sensory, spatial: these are among the recent “turns” taken by the medieval humanities, including art history.
The new perspectives on the past opened by these approaches, many of which are informed by interdisciplinary research and contemporary cultural interests in the natural and built world, are fundamentally reshaping how we conceive of and study medieval art . . . → En lire plus
Cinquièmes Rencontres de la Galerie Colbert
Tous les chercheurs, restaurateurs et conservateurs de la Galerie Colbert sont invités à participer aux cinquièmes Rencontres de la Galerie Colbert
Pour cette cinquième édition, la Galerie Colbert ouvre à nouveau ses portes au grand public. Lieu historique conservant la mémoire du XIXe siècle et de ses fameux « passages », elle héberge depuis 2001 la plupart des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche d’Île-de-France en histoire de l’art, ainsi que l’Institut national du patrimoine.
Les Rencontres du 30 janvier 2016 permettront de visiter ce haut lieu de la recherche, de la formation et de la coopération internationale en . . . → En lire plus
Le Bucema 19.2 publié en ligne sur la plateforme Revues.org est en préparation. Nous vous invitons à soumettre, dès maintenant et avant le 31 août 2015, votre contribution pour ses différentes rubriques en vue de la publication du numéro varia n° 19.2, à paraître en décembre 2015. Pour exemple, le numéro 18.1 est consultable à l’adresse https://cem.revues.org/13322.
Fidèle à son principe de diffusion de la recherche en train de se faire et librement accessible, le Bucema continue à mettre l’accent sur l’interdisciplinarité ‐ sciences humaines et sociales, sciences de la nature et mathématiques ‐, comme le meilleur moyen d’inventer une nouvelle médiévistique. Il est particulièrement intéressé . . . → En lire plus
For many medievalists who have had the good fortune to find jobs in academe, the professional reality is that we are unlikely to be surrounded by colleagues who share our areas of expertise and interest. In most cases, a department will hire only a single medieval specialist – and may be hard-pressed to convince administrations or hiring committees to approve even that one. Those lucky few who find a tenure-track position will then spend years explaining their work to colleagues, chairs, grant committees, and eventually tenure reviewers who know little about the work we do; others, in non-tenure or adjunct positions, must decide whether maintaining an interest in medieval studies . . . → En lire plus
Séminaire sur l’histoire de la construction 2014-2015 : 6e et dernière séance consacrée aux contrats de construction
Intervenants :
– Sandrine Victor, maître de conférences à l’Université d’Albi Les contrats dans le bâtiment au bas Moyen Age catalan : entre clauses techniques et marqueurs d’affaires.
– Julien Puget, boursier postdoctoral Banting du CRSH du Canada, UQÀM, Montréal Le contrat de construction à Aix et Marseille au XVIIe siècle : un outil de régulation des processus de fabrique de la ville à l’époque moderne.
– Robert Carvais, directeur de recherche CNRS – CTAD Comment le contrat de construction a été théorisé en droit français ?
– . . . → En lire plus




