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Colloque : « Michelangelo and Men », Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 24 novembre 2025

The symposium will dive deeper into the themes of the exhibition Michelangelo and Men, addressing the central place of the male body in the work and life of Michelangelo. International experts will discuss artistic as well as personal aspects of the male bodies in Michelangelo’s art: the place of models and anatomy in his oeuvre, the examples he found in the art of his own time and that of Classical Antiquity, and the social environment...

Journées d’étude : « Hirsute, Downy, Hairless. Meanings and Forms of Body Hair in Early Modern Visual Culture », Florence/en ligne, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, 24-25 octobre 2025

While long overlooked in art historical studies, over the past two decades body hair has emerged as a significant field of research offering new perspectives on Early Modern visual culture. This workshop brings together scholars from various disciplines to facilitate comparative analyses of visual traditions and discuss the representation of body hair in different genres and regions, ranging from Western Europe to South Asia. By foregrounding the seemingly marginal yet culturally charged representation of body...

Exposition : “Corpi moderni. La costruzione del corpo nella Venezia del Rinascimento. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Giorgione”, Venise, Gallerie dell’Accademia, du 4 avril au 27 juillet 2025

Curata da Giulio Manieri Elia, Guido Beltramini e Francesca Borgo, la rassegna propone un’affascinante indagine sulla concezione del corpo umano che si afferma nella Venezia del Rinascimento tra arte, scienza e cultura materiale. Corpi moderni esplora, più precisamente, il modo in cui, per la prima volta, il corpo è stato concepito quale campo d’indagine scientifica, oggetto di desiderio e mezzo di espressione di sé. Il Rinascimento segna, infatti, un punto di svolta in cui il corpo non è...

Colloque : “Body Hair in Early Modern Visual Culture”, Florence, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI), le 24 et 25 octobre 2025, date limite le 1er avril 2025

Hirsute, Downy, Hairless. Meanings and Forms of Body Hair in Early Modern Visual Culture. While long overlooked in art historical studies, over the past two decades body hair has emerged as a significant field of research, offering new perspectives on Early Modern visual culture. The presence or absence of body hair serves as an indicator of aesthetic (or artistic) preferences and prevailing social norms specific to certain periods and locations, revealing complex intersections between art...

Parution : Katherine Dauge-Roth et Craig Koslofsky (dir.), “Stigma. Marking Skin in the Early Modern World”, University Park, Penn State University Press, 2023

The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas as they began to circulate and reshape one another in the early modern world. By highlighting the interwoven histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, wounds and scars, this volume...

Parution : « Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture », Amsterdam University Press, 2022

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered ‘decent’ and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency and its relation to the human body across...

Appel à communication : “Le corps du sensible. Lectures et écritures phénoménologiques du littéraire XVIe-XVIIIe s.”, Lyon et Sherbrooke, date limite le 31 octobre et le 15 décembre2022

Le corps du sensible.  Lectures et écritures phénoménologiques du littéraire (16e-18e siècles) Qu’avons-nous à gagner à lire ou relire le littéraire de la période moderne avec l’éclairage de la phénoménologie ? Quel bénéfice intellectuel, quel supplément de compréhension critique retirer d’une telle approche ? Solliciter la pensée phénoménologique peut sembler une démarche inutilement anachronique : les textes sont d’abord de leur temps et du passé dont ils héritent, qu’ils reformulent et actualisent. Pourtant, appréhendée comme un geste interprétatif...

Parution : Michael W. Kwakkelstein, « Anatomical Studies », Turnhout, Brepols, 2022

The central theme of Rubens’s paintings is the human figure, often represented nude or partially clothed and involved in dramatic action. As a history painter, Rubens’s acclaimed skill in rendering the human body whether male or female, lean or fleshy, mature in years or young, animated or lifeless, vigorous or diseased, heroic or cowering, sensuous or decrepit, idealised or blemished and imperfect enabled him to vie with the greatest artists ever known, while creating increasing...

Séminaire : « Transformative Bodies in the Premodern World », Londres, The Courtauld Institute, 27 juin 2022, 13h-17h

Transformative Bodies in the Premodern World: Experiences and Materials The theme of this workshop is the transformation of bodies through, with or in relation to experiences and materials. Eight speakers will be exploring the ways, in which past peoples engaged with objects and materials from a variety of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds. The presentations will engage with practices (e.g. ritual, artistic, medicinal) that affected an actual or perceived change (in/of the body of the practitioner...

Exposition : « Flesh and Bones. The Art of Anatomy », Los Angeles, The Getty Center, 22 février-10 juillet 2022

Focused at the intersection of science and art, this exhibition explores themes of art and anatomy from the 16th century to today. From spectacular life-size illustrations to delicate paper flaps that lift to reveal the body’s interior, the structure of the body is represented through a range of media. Artists not only helped create these images but were part of the market for them, as anatomy was a basic component of artistic training for centuries....