Conférence : Laura Stefanescu, « Gilded Suns and Peacock Angels. Theatrical Materiality and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence », Londres et en ligne, 14 juin 2023

In fifteenth-century Florence, the phenomenon of religious theatre and ritual performance, promoted by adult and youth confraternities throughout the city, reached an unparalleled popularity, transitioning from the realm of devotion to that of the spectacular. The highlight of these performances was the materialisation of a multi-sensory heaven on stage and the appearance of its living angels (young Florentine boys) in their dazzling costumes. Painters living in the Santo Spirito quarter, where most of these activities...

Journée d’étude en l’honneur de Maurice Brock : « De la peinture comme délectation », Tours, CESR, 21 juin 2023

PROGRAMME   10h Accueil café 10h30 Introduction 10h45 [En ligne] Susanna da Lotto a Tintoretto Augusto Gentili – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia 11h15 Léonard de Vinci : l’optique et la peinture Pascal Brioist – Université de Tours / CESR 11h45 Dialogues Nord / Sud Colette Nativel – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne 12h15 Discussions 12h45 Déjeuner 14h30 Enfanter le Sauveur. Michel-Ange et l’impensé de l’Incarnation Philippe Morel – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne 15h Pas...

Séminaire : Stephanie Porras, “What is an Early Modern Viral Image?”, Londres, Warburg Institute, le 9 juin 2023

‘What is an early modern viral image?’ Stephanie Porras (Tulane University) Porras will present her new book, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp print and the early modern globe (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023), which traces the complex production and reception histories of an illustrated book, a painting and an engraving, all made in Antwerp in the late sixteenth century, but copied by Venetian print publishers, Spanish and Latin American painters, Mughal miniaturists and by...

Journées d’étude : « The Power of Flowers, 1500-1750 », Gand, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 14-15 juin 2023

Flowers and fruits have been mobilized as expressions of power and counter-power since long before the poet Allen Ginsberg coined the slogan “Flower Power” in 1965 to encourage nonviolent protest and Hippies in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury area weaved flowers in their hair. In the newly founded Dutch Republic, the house of Orange-Nassau relied on the orange not only as a short-hand for its name, but also a signifier of the trading empire it developed; Sultan...

Journée d’études : Early Modern Sensory Encounters, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, 8-9 juin 2023

Interest in sensory experiences of the past has grown in recent years, with scholars engaging with interdisciplinary and anthropological approaches in order to better understand historical lived experiences. This annual conference explores the visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and/or olfactory elements of particular experiences across the globe between c.1400 and c.1700. This year’s conference, ‘Sensory Encounters’, will consider sensory experiences as instances or reflections of cultural exchange and will discuss possible methodologies and approaches to this...

Conférence en ligne : Daniel Sherer, “Panofsky and Wittkower on Alberti”, Warburg Institute, 5 juin 2023

‘Panofsky and Wittkower on Alberti: Divergent Receptions of De Re Aedificatoria I, 10′ Daniel Sherer (Visiting Lecturer in Architectural History, Princeton University School of Architecture; Visiting Professor in Architectural History and Theory, Iuav) Alberti’s De Re Aedificatoria has been the object of highly varied, at times contrasting receptions since its completion in 1452. By comparing two of the more important 20th century readings of this text in the Warburg tradition put forward by Erwin Panofsky in 1925 and by...

Appel à communication : « Cross-Media Perspectives Technical Studies of Art on Panel, Paper and Parchment (1400-1600) », Louvain & Bruxelles, date limite le 1er juin 2023

The international and interdisciplinary ‘XXIII Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting’ Leuven & Brussels, 11 – 12 – 13 January 2024 The XXIII Symposium will provide a scientific forum for the presentation of new technical studies in art history, concentrating on art from the Middle Ages and Early Modern period (1400-1600). The conference will focus on the technical examination of art in a variety of media and supports: panel paintings, painting...

Appel à contribution : « Cult/Space/Presence of Images », Brno/Rome/Berlin, 2 octobre 2023-6 juillet 2024, date limite le 31 mai 2023

October 2–3, 2023, Center for Early Medieval Studies, Department of Art History, Brno March 21–22, 2024, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut for Art History, Rome July 5–6, 2024, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin The aim of the three events organized in Brno, Rome and Berlin is to systematically illuminate and classify the contribution of Hans Belting (1935–2023) to art history, visual and cultural studies and to reflect on its significance. To this end, three different, though not...

Conférence en ligne : Paul Taylor et François Quiviger, Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance, Warburg Institute, 25 mai 2023

Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre-eminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new account traces Rosa’s strategies of self-promotion, and his creation of a new kind of audience for his art. The book describes the startling novelty of his subject-matter – witchcraft and divination, as well as prophecies, natural magic and...

Journée d’étude : « Michelangelo and His Politics / The Medici Archive Project », Florence, Palazzo Alberti, 26 mai 2023

OPENING REMARKS: 9.30 Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project) Session One: 9:45 – 10:40 Andrea Donati (Universidad de Barcelona) «Michelangelo non fu mai soldato che vincessi nessuno, sebene egli con la virtù vinse l’arte, superò l’invidia…» Tracce politiche e ideologiche a partire dalla biografia di Giorgio Vasari Marcello Simonetta (The Medici Archive Project) Spigolature d’archivio su Michelangelo politico Coffee Break: 10:40 – 11:00 Session Two: 11:00 – 12:30 Vincenzo Sorrentino (Fondazione 1563) L’uso politico della...

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