Séminaire du Collectif Renaissance : Lorenzo Pericolo, « Black Beauty as a Paradox », Paris, INHA, Salle Benjamin, 10 juin 2024, 18h00
Lorenzo Pericolo, Florida State University
Lorenzo Pericolo is the Vincent V. and Agatha Thursby Professor and Chair at the Department of Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee. He earned his BA degree at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and his MA and PhD degrees at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris. He has conducted research in many institutions around the world: the Humboldt Universität (Berlin, Germany), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), and the Centro de Estudios del Prado (Madrid, Spain). He has published extensively in Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. Among his books, there are Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674) (2002); Caravaggio and Pictorial Narrative: Dislocating the Istoria in Early Modern Painting (2011); and the critical edition and annotated English translation of Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Life of Guido Reni in two volumes (2019). His forthcoming book is titled: Deleuze’s Modern Baroque: The Fold, Leibniz, Informal Art, and the Objectile (forthcoming 2025). |
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Black Beauty as a Paradox In early modern aesthetics, there was no place for blackness. This seminar will center on two sculptures executed by Nicolas Cordier in 1608–1612 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese: the Moor (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris) and the so-called Zingarella (still in the Galleria Borghese, Rome). Discussing the links of these two statues with the tradition of lyric poetry, and in particular with Giovan Battista Marino’s concept of novelty, this seminar will show the paradoxical charge of originality that Cordier intended to convey through these two sculptures. Furthermore, these works will be examined in light of other artifacts where blackness and the ancient paradigm of perfection are brought together. |
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Fiammetta Campagnoli (9 juin 2020). Séminaire du Collectif Renaissance : Lorenzo Pericolo, « Black Beauty as a Paradox », Paris, INHA, Salle Benjamin, 10 juin 2024, 18h00. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 13 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/11sbz