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Conférence : “Tarot – Origins and Afterlives. A Symposium”, Londres, Warburg Institute, le 26 avril 2025, de 10h à 18h

This one-day conference will celebrate the final week of the UK’s first exhibition on the history of tarot. Like the show, the symposium will explore a sequence of critical moments from tarot’s 600-year history, exploring the decks’ origins in the courtly card games of Renaissance Italy and the profound transformations they have undergone in the hands of artists, mystics and writers. Offering the insights of scholarly experts, including many members of the exhibition’s Scientific Committee,...

Appel à contribution : Early-Modern Design: Processes and Practices, RSA, Dublin, du 30 mars au 2 avril 2022, date limite le 22 juillet 2021

Today, the notion of design is inextricably linked to modernist mass-production. Early-modern artists also received briefs for designing elegant yet functional objects to embellish the environment in which their patrons lived. These objects were the result of intense collaboration which called upon artistic ingenuity, sophisticated craftsmanship and technological advances. However, unlike modern design objects, early modern design creations were unique, exclusive, and competitive in their originality and invention. The case of Giulio Romano (c. 1492...