Adonques crea l’ome a s’ymage, mahle et femele. Gn 1, 27 dans la Bible d’Acre, éd. Pierre Nobel. Une des costes d’Adan pris Dom il fame forma et fist Quant Adan de dormir leva Et celle joste lui trova « Ceu est, fist il, bien dire l’os, Os qui est formez de mes os Et char de ma char reformee ; Icete est ‘barone’ nomee Enssit pour voyr la nomeron Quar el est prise de...
Organisateurs : Marion Boudon-Machuel (Université de Tours/CESR), Aubrée David-Chapy (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Elsa Gomez (Musée des Beaux-arts de Tours) JEUDI 11 AVRIL | Femmes et société – MBAT 9h | Accueil 9h30 | Introduction 1. Paroles de femmes ou pour les femmes Présidente de séance : Elsa Gomez 9h45 | Anne Paupert, Maîtresse de conférences émérite, Université Paris Cité/Cerilac Une voix de femme et des paroles féminines dans la littérature française du XVe siècle : de...
In their homes, churches and neighborhoods women in early modern Italy were surrounded with a rich and diverse visual and material culture. Yet, apart from studies of women as collectors and patrons of the visual arts, until recently relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to their experience as viewers. How did women encounter, interpret and engage with the objects around them, whether altarpieces, portraits, public sculpture, devotional objects or decorative household goods? How were...
A l’occasion du 225e anniversaire du MSK, nous organisons la première exposition monographique jamais consacrée à Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637), virtuose du caravagisme flamand. Rombouts avait une réputation solidement établie dans le milieu artistique anversois. Mais même si sa peinture fut hautement appréciée durant sa courte vie, son héritage artistique a rapidement été oublié après sa mort précoce. L’exposition dévoile la personnalité artistique de Rombouts et situe son œuvre dans une perspective nouvelle. Une carrière brillante...
A revealing exploration of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s genre paintings and the cultural significance of his depictions of ordinary people Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) is best known for his religious subject matter, yet some of his most iconic works depict secular themes. Celebrating Murillo’s genre paintings and shedding new light on the innovative portrayals of beggars, street urchins, and flower girls in the artist’s culturally rich narratives of youth and age, romance and seduction, and faith...
This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities that was especially advanced in the urbanised territories of Italy and Flanders. For this reason, the portraits in this book are by Netherlandish and Italian painters. They are simultaneously illustrative of...
International Colloquium at Bader College of Queen’s University, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, UK, 6–9 July 2023. Sponsored by Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, and Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, NL Organizing Committee: Stephanie Dickey, Professor and Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen’s University ; Wayne Franits, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Syracuse University ; Elmer Kolfin, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Amsterdam ; David de Witt, Senior Curator, Museum het Rembrandthuis Rembrandt’s diverse achievements as painter, draftsman, printmaker,...
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...
This exhibition focuses on the women painted by Titian and his contemporaries: their beauty, elegance, sensuality and the particular status that their representation acquired in Venetian society at that time. (Sylvia Ferino) In sixteenth-century Venice, the female image acquired unprecedented importance in the history of painting. To celebrate this theme, Palazzo Reale opens its 2022 programme with the “Tiziano e l’immagine della donna” (Titian’s Vision of Women) exhibition. From February 23rd to June 5th, 2022...
How the culture of Renaissance Venice shaped Titian’s timeless paintings of women A new ideal of feminine beauty arose in 16th-century Venice, as women acquired new rights of inheritance and more social power. As a result, through the writings of poets and humanists, the construction of the desired, beloved woman began to acquire civic significance. The crucial impetus for the visual realization of this ideal came from Venice’s greatest artist: Titian. For him, artistic beauty...
