Conférence : Amanda Hilliam, « Drapery in Italian Premodern Art, between Nature and Artifice », Rome, Villino Stroganoff (et en ligne), 26 mars 2024
Cloth is a highly malleable material with almost limitless expressive potential. Its soft readiness to receive form allows it to transform into any number of abstract shapes in relief, providing the human eye with pleasurable diversion from figuration and introducing volume to whichever surface it adorns. Drapery – the representation of free-falling cloth characterised by its folds – presented a unique set of challenges for artists in premodern Italy, where the imitation of nature and...