Auteur : Florence Larcher

Conférences : « E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series », Londres/en ligne, The Warburg Institute, 10-12 septembre 2024

In February 1937, Johan Huizinga presented a lecture based on Homo ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (1938) at the Warburg Institute, with a young Viennese art historian, Ernst Gombrich, in the audience. Gombrich was already thinking about visual play with Fritz Saxl as well as Ernst Kris who discussed caricature in this Warburg lecture series of 1937. Laughter, jokes, play, and paradox are fundamental to understanding Renaissance culture. They also shaped...

Appel à contribution : « Purgatory To Paradise – Visualizing the Iter Salvationis in Medieval Art », Kalamazoo, 8-10 mai 2025, date limite le 14 septembre 2024

This special session wishes to analyze the representations of souls in Purgatory and their journey toward Paradise. The exempla employed in medieval texts and sermons featured vividly impactful imagery designed to engage the audience and leave a lasting impression. In medieval visual art, how are themes of sin, punishment, and, importantly, the possibility of salvation portrayed? Additionally, what is the significance of depicting souls in purgatory as naked? How this symbolism can be interpreted in...

Appel à contribution : « Questions de mots : écrire, dire et entendre la contestation du XVIe siècle à nos jours », Tierce, n° 9, date limite le 20 septembre 2024

La revue Tierce, fondée par les membres du Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Histoire, Art, Anthropologie et Musicologie (CRIHAM), cherche pour son neuvième numéro à faire dialoguer les disciplines de l’histoire, de l’art, de la musicologie, de la littérature et de la sociologie autour d’une réflexion sur les mots. Ce projet de dossier est porté par les jeunes chercheur·euse·s associé·e·s au CRIHAM. « Je créai le mot pour tuer la chose »[1]. En 1794, face aux destructions...

Appel à contribution : « Duecento painting: The art and technique of Margarito d’Arezzo and his contemporaries », Arezzo, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Medievale e Moderna, 9-10 octobre 2025, date limite le 20 septembre 2024

This interdisciplinary conference invites collaboration between colleagues working on all aspects of Duecento painting, from art historical studies to scientific analysis, technical research and conservation. The conference aims to provide an exceptional opportunity to share and discuss works of art by Margarito d’Arezzo and his contemporaries in the region. The call is now open for conference paper submissions. Papers on a wide range of subjects will be considered, including works on panel, sculptures, wall paintings, textiles, and...

Journées d’étude : « The Archduchess Isabella (1566-1633). Artistic Agency between Madrid and the Southern Netherlands », Bruxelles, Instituto Cervantes/Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, 12-13 septembre 2024

The twenty-third Art History Seminar of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) is organised in collaboration with the research project AGENART at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). It will take place on 12th-13th September 2024 at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage and at the Instituto Cervantes, both in Brussels, highlighting various fascinating aspects of the artistic patronage of the remarkable woman who was the Archduchess Isabella, who lived in Madrid and Brussels between...

Appel à contribution : « Animal culte », Terrain, date limite le 2 septembre 2024

Des cochons d’Inde, des perruches, des chiens, des chats, assistent ensemble, presque paisiblement, à une messe à Rome ; ailleurs des pratiques de sépultures et de funérailles animales se développent, et des cérémonies de mariages entre animaux domestiques sont célébrées. Alors que certains cherchent à rentrer en dialogue avec leurs compagnons animaux défunts, d’autres militent pour faire reconnaitre leur place dans la Résurrection finale. Dans le même temps, des boutiques spécialisées proposent de la bière, des...

Journée d’étude : « Expert Meeting: Rembrandt Reunited », Nivå, The Nivaagaard Collection, 2 septembre 2024, date limite le 15 août 2024

This event marks the first time in over two centuries that Rembrandt’s ‘Portrait of a 39-year-old Woman’ from The Nivaagaard Collection and its speculated counterpart, the ‘Portrait of a 40-year-old Man’ from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will be displayed together. Research by an international team of art historians and technical experts has focused on the question whether these masterpieces are pendant portraits. Now, we invite the academic community to review the...

Exposition : « National Treasures: The Wilton Diptych in Oxford », Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 10 mai-1er septembre 2024

The Ashmolean is proud to be a partner venue for the National Treasures displays in 2024. As part of its 200th birthday celebrations, the National Gallery is loaning 12 paintings to venues around the UK, with the displays all opening on 10 May 2024. The Ashmolean will display the Wilton Diptych, painted about 1395-9 and made for Richard II, King of England from 1377 to 1399. The small, portable altarpiece is one of a handful of English...

Appel à contribution : « Contingency in global image practices », IMAGE, 2025, date limite le 15 août 2024

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences welcomes contributions to its forthcoming special issue of IMAGE: “Contingency in global image practices”. Contingency is ephemeral, ambiguous, and ever-changing and runs through the course of the world – from the development of the universe, biological evolution, the emergence of species, social transformation, and technological innovation to various everyday activities. The visual arts are well suited to the representation and perception of such phenomena, as this field is increasingly...

Appel à contribution : « The Architecture of the Cassinese Congregation, 15th-18th Centuries », Padoue/Vicence, 30 janvier-1er février 2025, date limite le 31 août 2024

The University of Padua (ICEA Department), in collaboration with the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura “Andrea Palladio”/Palladio Museum and the Abbey of Santa Giustina in Padua, is organising a conference dedicated to the architecture of the Cassinese Benedictine Congregation that will be held in Padua and Vicenza on January 30-31 and February 1, 2025. The conference is part of the PRIN 2022 research project “CoenoBIuM. Art and Architecture of the Cassinese Benedictine Congregation (XV-XVIII...

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