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Parution : Christine Kleiter, “‘L’Histoire de la nature des oyseaux’ von Pierre Belon: Naturhistorische Bild – und Sammlungspraxis der Frühen Neuzeit”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025

Pierre Belon’s treatise on birds, published in Paris in 1555, is regarded as a pioneering early work of ornithology. Christine Kleiter analyzes this work in its exceptional position as one of the first printed and illustrated natural history treatises. She shows how the text and images pursue the claim to systematically document and catalog knowledge. In doing so, she compares Belon’s work with that of other naturalists, such as Conrad Gessner and Ulisse Aldrovandi. It...

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...

Séminaire : Mei Mei Rado, “From France to the Qing Court: Tapestries as Cross-cultural Textiles”, Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 24 juin 2025

Public event without registration :  DATE: Jun 24, 2025 TIME: 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) SPEAKER: Mei Mei Rado LOCATION: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome CONTACT: freiberg@biblhertz.it Large-scale pictorial tapestries ranked among the most precious art forms in the early modern period. While their circulations and functions among European courts have been well studied, less known are their journeys to China and subsequent roles in stimulating new developments in Qing...

Conférence : Martin Clayton, «’Describe the jaw of a crocodile’: Leonardo da Vinci’s Animal Anatomies », Londres, Courtauld Institute of Art, 9 mai 2024, 17h30

Leonardo’s anatomical work was the most accomplished of his many scientific studies. Like all his research, it combined traditional beliefs with acute direct observation, including the dissection of up to thirty human cadavers. But Leonardo also studied and dissected animals at many points of his career. His subjects included horses, bears, monkeys, frogs, dogs and oxen – as surrogates for human material, as independent subjects of study, and on occasion to compare explicitly human and...

Exposition : « Bestiaire médiéval », Château de Chantilly, Musée Condé, 21 février- 27 mai 2024

TRÉSORS DU CABINET DES LIVRES Dans le calendrier des Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry les animaux sont présents sur toutes les pages. À fortiori, les riches collections médiévales de Chantilly offrent un répertoire riche et varié de thèmes animaliers. Compagnon de l’homme depuis la Création, miroir des travers humains dans les fables ou les marges enluminées, sujet de crainte, d’émerveillement ou de connaissance, l’animal des livres médiévaux offre un bestiaire plein d’humanité et...

Parution : Alexander Nagel (dir.), I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2023

Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2023 Editor’s Note Alexander Nagel pp. 1–2 The Whisperers: Invidious Perspectives in Trecento Painting Christopher S. Wood pp. 3–33 Caravaggio, Alberti, and Narcissan Disegno Estelle Lingo pp. 35–62 On the Gaze and “gl’idoli altrui”: Vision and Loss in Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata Alani Hicks-Bartlett pp. 63–90 Islands in Flux: Migration and Ecological Change in Early Modern Isolari (Books of Islands) James K. Coleman pp. 91–108 Cellini’s Dog Sefy Hendler pp. 109–144...

Appel à contribution : « Mapping Global Animal (in) Spaces », Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, 25-26 janvier 2024, date limite le 15 juillet 2023

Human-animal interactions occur in specific spatial settings. Animals are often perceived as ‘victims’ of human dominance; they are and have been affected spatially by various human interventions including migration, agricultural exploitation, war, trade, geographical exploration, scientific expeditions, imperialism, and colonialism. But, our ‘silent (or not so silent) neighbors’ do not merely surround us; they too are migrants as well as active producers of space and built environments. Much as human beings migrate, create, and shape...

Parution : Sarah Cohen, “Picturing Animals in Early Modern Europe: Art and Soul”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022

Do animals other than humans have consciousness? Do they knowingly feel and think, rather than simply respond to stimuli? Can they be said to have their own subjectivity? These questions, which are still debated today, arose forcefully in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when empirical approaches to defining and studying the natural world were coming to the fore. Philosophers, physicians and moralists debated the question of whether the immaterial “soul”–which in the early...

Journée d’étude : « L’animal à l’épreuve de l’histoire de l’art », Grenoble et en ligne, Université Grenoble Alpes, 21 octobre 2022

Les Études Animales, apparues dans les années 1970, se sont peu à peu imposées dans les sciences humaines, faisant de la question animale un sujet émergent. Cette remise en cause de l’anthropocentrisme, amorcée sur fond de catastrophe écologique, a eu plus de mal à atteindre l’histoire de l’art qui semble encore réticente à embrasser ce champ de recherche pourtant incontournable. Bien que la question de l’animalité dans l’art contemporain soit de plus en plus souvent...

Appel à contributions : Medieval and Early Modern Equids: Classifying by Breeds, Types and Functions, date limite le 10 septembre 2022

Medieval and Early Modern Equids: Classifying by Breeds, Types and Functions Call for papers for a special thematic volume to be published in the Rewriting Equestrian History series by Trivent Medieval Nature has not given [all horses] the same capabilities. Some shine more at war work; others are inclined to win Olympic crowns; others are adaptable for domestic use, civilian duties and farm work. Leon Battista Alberti, De equo animante (c. 1445) Equine breeds as we think of them...