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Catégorie : Parutions

Parution : Marina Formica, Donatella Strangio, “L’araba fenice. Crisi e resilienza nella Roma pontificia (1656-1870)”, Rome, Viella, 2025

Il volume analizza l’evoluzione della Roma papale dalla peste del 1656 fino al 1870, anno in cui divenne capitale del Regno d’Italia. Le autrici, attraverso l’uso di fonti originali, indagano le principali crisi che hanno attraversato la città, dai flagelli sanitari come la peste, il vaiolo e il colera, alle calamità ambientali legate al Tevere, alle carestie e alla gestione delle risorse naturali. Si esaminano anche le crisi politiche e quelle finanziarie, con il peso...

Parution : Olivier Bonfait et al. (dir.), « Faire image au XVIIe siècle : modèles et perspectives », Paris, Éditions 1:1, 2025

Le discours sur l’art et les images est loin d’appartenir à la seule histoire de l’art. Cet ouvrage, suscité par des historiens de l’art spécialistes du XVIIe siècle, rassemble les travaux de philosophes, d’historiens ou de littéraires qui travaillent sur l’image telle qu’elle est envisagée et questionnée, en dehors mais parfois en lien avec les savoirs, les concepts ou les méthodes de l’histoire de l’art. Quelles sont les catégories d’images étudiées par les différents chercheurs...

Parution : Robert Couzin, “Unrepresented: The Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages”, Leyde, Brill, 2025

The study of representational art traditionally focusses on what is represented rather than what is missing. Robert Couzin’s Unrepresented: The Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages is a unique study of figures and attributes left out of the picture. Why avoid depicting the dead body of Christ, Muhammad, the reigning emperor or biblical text? What explains changes in the approach to representing heretics and Jews?Through a series of case studies, this book shows how...

Parution : Pietro Delcorno et Holly Johnson (dir.), “Communicating the Passion. The Socio-Religious Function of an Emotional Narrative (1250-1530)”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025

This volume investigates the vivid and emotionally intense commemoration of the Passion of Christ as a key element in late medieval religious culture. Its goal is to shed light on how the Passion was communicated and on its socio-religious function in late medieval Europe. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume analyses the different media involved in this cultural process (sermons, devotional texts, lively performances, statues, images), the multiple forms and languages in which the...

Parution : Beate Fricke, “Creation and Creativity in Medieval Art. Illustrating Genesis”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2025

Creation imagery in manuscripts made in the Middle Ages became a locus for visual experimentation as well as the expression of ideas about creativity. By examining representations of divine creation and illustrations of the creation stories in Genesis, this book links medieval ideas about creation, the characteristic of the Divine Creator, and the act of creation with themes in medieval thought about the work of medieval artists. Case studies from manuscripts illuminating the creation dating...

Parution : Filip Malesevic, “Rome Unveiled: Cardinal Cesare Baronio and San Giovanni in Laterano”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025

This book offers new insights into the history of Rome’s Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano through the perspective of curial ceremony. It traces the probable contribution by the eminent Oratorian and cardinal, Cesare Baronio, in designing a sophisticated iconographic program for the transept inside this prominent Roman church edifice during Clement VIII’s (Aldobrandini’s) pontificate. Moreover, the book provides the first full reconstruction of the history and curial interventions at the ancient Constantinian Patriarchum Lateranensis...

Parution : Jodi Cranston, “Animal Sightings. Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400–1550”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025

A provocative examination of how early modern artists and viewers thought about lived and imagined interactions between humans and animals. Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, that the human figure relegated animals to peripheral and often symbolic roles, both compositionally and conceptually, and second, that the representation of animals during this period was predominantly tied to a growing interest in naturalism derived from scientific...

Parution : Pamela A. Patton, “Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages”, University Park, Penn State University Press, 2025

A necessary look at contemporary uses and misuses of medieval images to convey power and resistance. This volume addresses a vital point of intersection between images in the Middle Ages and those in the modern world: the potential of medieval works of art to convey messages of power and resistance. Provoked by the misuse of medieval imagery in modern discussions, the contributors to this volume assess how medieval images connect to discourses of power in...

Parution : Hannah Baader, Martina Becker et Niharika Dinkar (dir.), “Aesthetic Practices and Spatial Configurations”, Columbia University Press, 2025

Aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by spatial formations. The essays of this volume survey configurations of spaces as macro, micro and meso, and study from a transregional perspective the ways they are created, described, negotiated and appropriated across cultures. The interdisciplinary studies range from art history to anthropology and literary studies, and investigate the interdependence between material forms and environmental contexts. They explore the periodic re-invention of spaces through architectural, pictorial and discursive practices....

Parution : Nicholas R. Jones, Christina H. Lee, Dominique E. Polanco (dir.), “The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production”, Londres, Routledge, 2025

This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non-white communities’ artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of People of Color. The organization of the book moves chronologically, taking a conceptual and thematic framework. This collection will provide a spectrum of object-based case studies of artistic production—objects and object-types—from six continents between...