Appel à communication : « Intoxicants and Early Modernity » session de la RSA (Boston, mars 2016)

Guido Reni, Bacchus buvant, 1623, DresdeWe’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

Appel à communication : « Vasari on Technique: Matter and Making », session de la RSA (Boston, 31 mars-2 avril 2016)

Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite, Firenze, Giunti, 1568In 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

Appel à communication : « Palais et dynamiques urbaines : centres de pouvoir et de connaissance en Europe » (Évora, 5-7 novembre 2015)

LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01Les palais européens n’ont pas été seulement les résidences des rois, des princes, des cardinaux, des aristocrates et des bourgeois. Ils constituaient des centres de pouvoir, des symboles sociaux et politiques, et également des centres de production pour la culture, les arts et la science. D’autre part, ils ont joué un rôle fondamental dans la rénovation et l’expansion des villes. Nous pouvons considérer le palais comme un centre qui a façonné non seulement ses espaces intérieurs, mais aussi ses environs.

À partir de cette constatation, et profitant de l’occasion des célébrations du 500e anniversaire de la construction du Palais de Don Manuel . . . → En lire plus

Appel à candidature : « Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities » (Tours, septembre 2015)

CESROnline prosopographical databases for Renaissance Studies

The university of Tours (France) invites applications for a 12-months postdoctoral research associate housed in the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) in Tours. Starting on 1 September 2015, the successful candidate will be in charge of developing a website and databases for the “Online prosopographical data in Renaissance Studies” Project, aimed at completing, interconnecting and online publishing the CESR datasets on early modern intellectual, cultural and artistic networks.

Dissertation must have been completed outside France less than 7 years ago. Monthly salary : 1 920.76 €.

Application and CV to be sent by 11 May 2015 to david.fiala@univ-tours.fr and chiara.lastraioli@univ-tours.fr

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Appel à publication : « Sensuous Suffering: Pain in the Early Modern Visual Art of Europe & the Americas » (juillet 2015)

Rogier van der Weyden, Descente de croix, 1435, Madrid, Prado (détail)Pain, both physical and psychological, is readily sited in the body and the material. Because of its somatic basis, pain is an interior sensation whose external communication can stimulate both sympathetic and empathetic reactions in viewers. Renderings of its material consequences—be they ravaged bodies or tear-stained faces—in art have unique potential to engage viewers as psychosomatic entities and encourage affective responses.Contemporary interest in pain and its place in early modern culture has catalyzed contributions from scholars in diverse fields, including psychology, history, religion, and art history. This anthology seeks to explore the phenomenon of pain in early modern culture in Europe and . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Epic Encounters. Literature and the Visual Arts around Ariosto and Tasso » (Boston, RSA, 31 mars-2 avril 2016)

Dosso Dossi, Melissa (?), 1520, Rome, BorgheseOn 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

Appel à communication : « Tintoretto 500  » (Boston, RSA, 31 mars-2 avril 2016)

Jacopo Tintoretto, Moïse recevant les tables de la loi (détail), 1560-62, Venise, Madonna dell'orto 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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Appel à session : 62e congrès de la Renaissance Society of America (RSA) (Boston, 31 mars-2 avril 2016)

RSANewLogo 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

Appel à communication : « From theory to practice: Lomazzo’s aesthetic principles reflected in the art of his time » (Boston, RSA, 31 mars-2 avril 2016)

Lomazzo, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, Milano, 1584, Livre IGiovan 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

Appel à communication : « Exploring Early Modern Dress: the Merits and Challenges of Diverse Sources » (Florence, septembre 2015)

Bronzino, Eléonore de Tolède et son fils, vers 1545, Florence, OfficesThe field of early modern dress history draws from a variety of sources in order to map out fashions and trends within the confines of readily available early modern source materials. The analysis of a vast range of sources is done in the context of an interdisciplinary research where different research fields and schools of thought collide and emerge in the form of dress history. Pictorial representations of early modern dress together with surviving garments, garment fragments and textiles form some of the obvious tools from which information is drawn and pieced together. Archival sources, including house inventories, account books and sumptuary legislation, among others, have also consistently been employed . . . → En lire plus

Appel à publication : « Renaissance Studies — Special Issue » (volume XXXVIII, 2015/2016)

Renaissance StudiesSpecial 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

Séminaire : « Daniele Barbaro (1514-70). In and Beyond the Text » (Tours, 20-21 avril 2015)

Veronese, Daniele Barbaro, 1556-1567, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Reception and influence of Daniele Barbaro’s writings in the European context in the sixteenth and following centuries. organisé par Lenia Kouneni, Frédérique Lemerle, Susy Marcon, Laura Moretti et Vasco Zara

 

Participants : Pierre Caye, Alessia Giachery, Jasenka Gudelj, Katherine Isard, Lenia Kouneni, Frédérique Lemerle, Susy Marcon, Giordano Mastrocola, Laura Moretti, Dorit Raines, Vasco Zara

 

CESR, Salle Saint-Martin Lundi 20 avril 2015 – 14h30-18h Mardi 21 avril 2015 – 10h-17h

International Network Workshop 2 https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/danielebarbaro/

Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance
59, rue Néricault-Destouches
37020 Tours

 

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Appel à communication : « Du corpus à l’exégèse : Interpréter la peinture du XVIIe siècle en France, entre provinces et capitales européennes — II. Trajets de l’interprétation » (Rouen, décembre 2015)

Jean Garnier, Allégorie à Louis XIV, protecteur des Arts et des Sciences, Château de Versailles« Du corpus à l’exégèse : interpréter la peinture du XVIIe siècle en France, entre provinces et capitales européennes », est le titre générique d’un cycle de trois colloques, organisé entre 2014 et 2016, par l’Université de Rouen (GRHis) et ses partenaires, avec le soutien de Rouen-Métropole. Ces rencontres rassemblent des intervenants – doctorants ou universitaires confirmés – dont les travaux portent sur des études de cas exemplaires envisagés dans le cadre d’une approche interprétative : théories et pratiques anciennes de l’interprétation ; questions iconographiques et iconologiques ; approches contextuelles interdisciplinaires ; lectures plus théoriques d’ordre . . . → En lire plus

Ressources en ligne : édition bilingue de « La Fabrique » de Vésale et autres textes.

Vésale, La Fabrique, lettrine Jacqueline Vons et Stéphane Velut sont à l’initiative de la mise en ligne progressive de la première édition et de la traduction en français du traité De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543) et des textes liminaires des autres ouvrages de Vésale avec des introductions et des commentaires.

 

Voir : http://www3.biusante.parisdescartes

 

Appel à communication : « Sixteenth Century Society Conference » (Vancouver, octobre 2015)

Fresque à la FarnésineThe Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is now accepting proposals for individual presentation proposals and complete panels for its annual conference, to be held 22-25 October 2015 at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The deadline for proposals is April 15, 2015. Within four weeks after the deadline, the Program Committee will notify all those who submitted proposals. The conference will once again host poster sessions.Scholars who intend to submit a poster proposal should obtain a poster session code prior to submitting their proposal by emailing: conference@sixteenthcentury.org.

In addition to standard panels, the organizing committee will be accepting proposals for types . . . → En lire plus

Colloque : « Les Européens : ces architectes qui ont bâti l’Europe (1450-1950) » (Paris, 23-25 avril 2015)

Architectes europeensCe colloque réunira une vingtaine d’études biographiques – qui revisiteront le genre des vitae – consacrées aux architectes « européens » : ceux qui, étant nés et ayant étudié dans une culture, héritiers d’une ou plusieurs traditions nationales, travaillèrent au sein d’une (ou des) autre(s), en y apportant des éléments nouveaux. Ces architectes expatriés, transfuges, cosmopolites, créateurs des confusions stylistiques qui posent tant de problèmes aux historiens de l’art et rompent les schémas des « écoles nationales » et des « influences », furent en grande partie responsables de . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Visual Print Culture in Europe 1500-1850 » (Venise, décembre 2015)

Vol de l'ange et feux d'artifices pour le jeudi gras, Venise, 1757To be held at the University of Warwick’s Venice base, the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy, December 5-6, 2015 (Click for the location), Visual Print Culture in Europe 1500-1850 aims to draw together scholars with a range of disciplinary skills to discuss the methods, representational forms, and distribution of and audience for visual print media in Europe between 1500 and 1850. Its seeks to de-nationalize the study of visual print culture, and to explore the extent to which interactions between engravers and printers, artists and consumers in Europe, and a range of common representational practices . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Les festivités en l’honneur de l’empereur Charles Quint et du futur Philippe II (1549) » (Mons, octobre 2015)

Anonyme, Une mascarade dans la salle aux médaillons du château de Binche, le 28 août 1549, BruxellesFestivals en Hainaut au temps de Jacques du Brœucq : l’importance européenne des festivités en l’honneur de l’empereur Charles Quint et du futur Philippe II (1549) (Mons, Belgique, 12-14 Octobre 2015)

Le but du colloque est d’étudier les événements de 1549 aux Pays-Bas, lorsque Charles Quint, comte de Hainaut et empereur romain germanique, a infléchi l’avenir dynastique, politique et économique du continent en nommant son fils Philippe d’Espagne comme successeur. La sœur de Charles, Marie de Hongrie, a commandé alors une série de festivités magnifiques qui eurent lieu en septembre 1549 dans ses palais près de . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Eros and Enlightenment » (Washington, DC, février 2016)

L’instant désiré des amants heureux, 1767-1771What would it mean to consider the eighteenth century through the lens of its evolving discourse on love? The explosion of a novel-reading public; the Enlightenment’s often nervous inquiry into love’s place among the ‘moral sentiments’ and its status in relation to the equally unstable category of friendship; the expansion of epistolary culture and the attendant vogue for love letter pictures; the libertine conceptualization of love as a ‘commerce’; homoeroticism as a cultural leitmotif; the ubiquitous presence of Cupid, even in such unexpected contexts as financial literature; the fixation on ancient notions of eros, from Ovid’s persistently popular Ars Amatoria to the unearthed remains of erotic frescoes: . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies » (New York, 2015-2016)

imagesColumbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies (New York)

Columbia University, NYC, September 11, 2015 – April 1, 2016

Deadline: Apr 27, 2015

Call for Abstracts-Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, Due April 27, 2015

For those interested in presenting a paper at the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, please submit an abstract of what you propose by April 27, 2015. The abstract should be no more than 300 words. In your email please also include a copy of your CV, and two suggestions for a respondent to your paper with their email information.

Respondents should be within reasonable commuting distance to New York City.

Please note: Seminar presenters are expected to . . . → En lire plus