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Étiqueté : culture matérielle

Appel à communication : « L’or en Europe occidentale à la Renaissance. Approches interdisciplinaires », Paris & Nanterre, date limite le 1er mars 2022

Dans son ouvrage désormais canonique sur la peinture et la culture visuelle dans l’Italie du Quattrocento (Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy), paru à Oxford en 1972, l’historien de l’art Michael Baxandall décrivait un mouvement de désaffection pour l’or dans les pratiques picturales, sensible dans les contrats entre peintres et commanditaires, mais aussi dans les écrits des théoriciens de l’art. Il reliait ce phénomène à un mouvement plus général, à l’échelle européenne, consistant en...

Séminaire : « On the Move – Artists, Ideas, Objects », University of Cambridge, en ligne, 02 février-16 mars 2022,

The History of Art Graduate Seminar Series, University of Cambridge : “On the Move – Artists, Ideas, Objects.” Cambridge Graduate Seminar Series : Over the course of seven seminars, this year’s graduate seminar series features a range of speakers who will explore topics such as migration, cross-culturalism, networks of artistic exchange, colonialism and indigeneity across different time periods, materials, and geographies. The seminars will take place in person for those able to join in Cambridge,...

Appel à communication : « Art Across the Iberian World », University of Zurich, 6-8 octobre 2022, date limite le 20 février 2022

Art Across the Iberian World. Connecting Spanish Italy and Latin America. University of Zurich, Oct 6–08, 2022. Deadline: Feb 20, 2022. Organized by Joris van Gastel and Nora Guggenbühler. For a long stretch of time, both Southern Italy—the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily—and Latin America were entangled in the same colonial system. Still, art historians have discussed these entanglements largely independently. This conference seeks to bring together these two fields of study : on the...

Conférence : Adriana Concin, « Florence and the Holy Roman Empire in the Sixteenth Century : Material Culture and Artistic Exchange », Londres, The Courtauld Institute, 17 janvier 2022, 17h-18h30

During the second half of the sixteenth century, Florentine artistic production and access to it became increasingly sought after across the Holy Roman Empire. An important dynastic connection between the Austrian Habsburg dynasty and the Medici family in 1565 was the marriage of Archduchess Johanna of Austria (1547–1578) to Francesco I de’ Medici (1541–1587). This was a catalytic event that brought the German-speaking dominions of Central Europe into close contact with Florence, its court and...

Parution : Hanneke van Asperen, « Silver Saints. Prayers and Badges in Late Medieval Books », Turnhout, Brepols, 2021

Late medieval books served as treasure chests for all kinds of religious keepsakes, notably small metal badges. Devotees sewed these religious badges and pilgrimage souvenirs to the parchment of their treasured devotional books and manuscript illuminators depicted silver en gilt badges in the margins as if they are sewn to the pages. Medieval manuscripts are often admired for their esthetic qualities, but many of them also served a practical use as instruments for the physical...

Colloque : “Materials of Early Modern Fashion”, en ligne, 7-8 octobre 2021

Materials of Early Modern Fashion is a conference exploring the variety of different materials used in the construction of clothes and accessories in the 16th and 17th centuries.   PROGRAMME DAY ONE: Thursday 7 October 2021   10.00 – 11.20: Materials and Global Trade Ana Howie – Global Materials, Global Identities: Cosmopolitan Dressing in van Dyck’s Balbi Children Hugh Chevis – Why Early Modern English Clothiers started using Spanish Merino Wool Saoirse Dervla Laaraichi –...

Parution : Susanna Burghartz et al. (dir.), « Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750. Objects, Affects, Effects », Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2021

This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our...

Exposition : Treasury Objects of the Middle Ages, Londres, Sam Fogg, du 24 juin au 30 juillet 2021

Treasury Objects of the Middle Ages (24th June – 30th July 2021) is the first selling exhibition of its type in more than a century. Devoted entirely to the subject of medieval goldsmiths’ work, it provides a unique survey of the varied types of precious, small-scale metalwork objects that were produced between the 12th and 16th centuries for use in cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and private chapels across Europe. Uniting the forty-five objects in this exhibition are the rich and glittering...

Séminaire : Rembrandt Duits, Renaissance Art and Material Culture, Londres, Warburg Institute, 28 juin – 2 juillet 2021

As a boy, the Basle physician Felix Platter (1536-1614) once got in trouble for loitering at a market stall to admire some biscuit moulds. When recalling the episode in his memoirs, Platter described the carved wooden biscuit moulds as “works of art”. The anecdote raises the question: if, around the middle of the sixteenth century, an educated person such as Platter could perceive biscuit moulds as “art”, what else could be? This course seeks to...

Journées d’étude : « Rituel et image : textiles et révélation du sacré », en ligne, les 6 et 7 mai 2021

Journées d’étude : « Rituel et image : textiles et révélation du sacré »  “Ritual and Image: Textiles and the Revelation of the Sacred” 6 – 7 mai 2021 PROGRAMME 6 MAI 2021 (Galerie Colbert, salle Walter Benjamin) 9h00 / Accueil et présentation des journées – Juliette Brack, Julie Glodt, Nicolas Sarzeaud 9h30 / Conférence inaugurale – Paul Hills (Courtauld Institute of Art) Textiles and Touch: Depicting the Sacred 10h10 / Discussion et pause  ...