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Étiqueté : art animalier

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Parutions

Parution : Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana (dir.), “Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance”, University Park, Penn State University Press, 2023

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provide new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small. Volume 1, Insects, examines how insects burrowed into the...

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Appels à contribution

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...

À l'étranger / Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Expositions

Exposition : “Rhinoceros – a fabulous animal works on paper from three centuries”, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, du 21 juillet 2022 au 26 juillet 2023

The studio exhibition presents images of the rhinoceros on paper from three centuries. This period saw the transformation from a creature of the imagination to a realistically-depicted animal. In 1500, almost no-one in Europe had ever actually seen a rhinoceros, and the legendary creature was associated with myth and many stories. It was considered wild, dangerous and the elephant’s natural enemy, but also exotically fascinating, testimony to an unknown world. Two images, in particular, were...