Conférences : « Ordinary People: Paintings and Prints of Everyday Life from Bruegel to Hopper », Londres/en ligne, The Courtauld, 3 octobre-5 décembre 2023
This series of lectures explores the representation of everyday life in Western art from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Compared with the narrative complexities and learned references of history painting, the art of everyday life appears uncomplicated, and itself often contributed to the fiction of an unmediated representation of the ‘here and now’. Particularly in the early modern period, this art was widely characterised by an exceptional naturalism, or even illusionism that signalled...