Conférence : Alexander Marr, « Three Renaissance Grotesques: Holbein, Dürer, Massys », Oxford, University of Oxford, 27 septembre 2023
Magdalen College, University of Oxford Grove Auditorium (entry via Longwall Street) 27 September 2023, 5pm The Renaissance grotesque is normally thought of as an ornamental art of the margins: fantastical rather than natural, supplementary instead of central. But what if we were to approach a core subject in the rise of naturalism, the Northern Renaissance portrait, on grotesque terms? This lecture will re-assess three well-known portraits—Hans Holbein the Younger’s Derich Born, Albrecht Dürer’s St Jerome in his...