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Parution : Joseph Leo Koerner, “Art in a State of Siege”, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2025

What do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when enemies are at the city walls and the rule of law breaks down, or when a tyrant suspends the law to attack from inside? Art in a State of Siege tells the story of three compelling images created in dangerous moments and the people who experienced them—from Philip II of Spain to Carl Schmitt—whose panicked gaze turned artworks into omens....

Appel à contribution : « Research fellowships: Viaggio a Palermo », Rome/Palerme, Bibliotheca Hertziana/Fondazione Palazzo Butera, date limite le 18 juillet 2025

Research fellowships granted by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (Rome) in collaboration with Fondazione Palazzo Butera (Palermo) The Department Michalsky at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, in collaboration with the Fondazione Palazzo Butera in Palermo, is inviting applications for a four-month research fellowship for 2025. The call is open to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers with a project related to one of the following thematic areas:...

Parution : Rachel Carlisle, “Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print. Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024

Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’antica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of print to local antiquarian pursuits and generation of a style all’antica in early sixteenth-century Augsburg, Germany. Working in the shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Augsburg’s leading patrons, including humanist Konrad Peutinger and the mercantile Fugger family, documented local antiquities and commissioned new works of classicizing art and architecture, visually asserting a...

Parution : Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, “Gender and the Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia”, Londres, Routledge, 2024

This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700. Using the life-stage framework popular in texts of the period and drawing on a broad spectrum of materials including conduct guidebooks, treatises and conventual rules, this book examines the constraints imposed by gender-related social structures through microhistories of...

Parution : Ingrid Vermeulen (dir.), “Art and Its Geographies. Configuring Schools of Art in Europe (1550-1815)”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024

Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a school of art essentially denotes a group of artists or artworks, it came to be configured in multiple ways, encompassing different meanings of learning, origin, style, or nation, and mediated in various forms via academies, literature, collections, markets...

Parution : José Eloy Hortal Munoz et Merlijn Hurx (dir.), “Building the Presence of the Prince”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024

By the late Middle Ages, architecture became an increasingly important means of representation of princely rule and institutions. In addition to their symbolic significance, the ruler’s buildings served a host of practical purposes. Obviously, castles and fortresses defended the territory, while urban and rural residences served the itinerant court during its proceedings, but their possessions also comprised a wider network of estates that included infrastructure and agricultural, commercial, industrial, and administrative buildings. Together, these networks...

Parution : Claudia Goldstein, “Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining. Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern Italy”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024

Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuffs for the viewer. These were new subjects in Antwerp and even newer in Italy, where elite merchants and nobles like Margaret of Parma displayed them as they were meant to be displayed: in dining rooms and spaces used for entertaining. This study explores the cross-cultural meanings of Beuckelaer’s distinctly...

Parution : Lavender et Amundsen Bergström (dir.), “Faking It! The Performance of Forgery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture”, Leyde, Brill, 2023

Faking It! collects eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles: literary historical and art historical contributions share space with discussions of jewels, architecture and coinage. The various case studies take as their focus developments in Renaissance Italy and early modern England as well as in France, Germany, Malta, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Russia and Australia. While each chapter contributes to a better understanding of the local context of cultural production, together they...

Appel à contribution : « Performing Theatricality and Imaging Religious Ceremonies in Early Modern Western Europe », Gand, Ghent University, 15-17 mars 2024, date limite le 2 octobre 2023

2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the publication of the early eighteenth-century book series Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, a work on all the world’s religions known to Europe at that time and originally published in seven volumes between 1723 and 1737 in Amsterdam. Edited by the exiled French Huguenot Jean Frederic Bernard, the original seven volumes of the Cérémonies knew a vast distribution across European readers in the Netherlands,...

Colloque en ligne : Fertile Furrows: Ruling and (Re-)Working Soil in Early Modern Period, Warburg, 27-28 juin 2023

A two-day virtual conference via Zoom. Tuesday 27 June: 2.00 – 6.30pm Wednesday 28 June: 10.00am – 6.30pm Keynote speakers: Christine Göttler (Universität Bern), Ivano Dal Prete (Yale University), Frances E. Dolan (University of California at Davis). Human life is closely dependent on soil, both for its capacity to produce food and for its geo-political connotations. It is no wonder that soil fertility has been at the centre of human thought from the mythical Golden...