Étiqueté : genre

Parution : Guillaume Kientz, “Murillo From Heaven to Earth”, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2022

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...

Parution : E. Toreno, « Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century. Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of Power », Amsterdam University Press, 2022

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...

Appel à contribution : « Rembrandt and Genre », Herstmonceux Castle, Bader College of Queen’s University, 6-9 juillet 2023, date limite le 1er octobre 2022

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,...

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 : “Titian and the female image: beauty, love, poetry”, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 23 février-5 juin 2022

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...

Parution : Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, “Titian’s Vision of Women”, Skira, Lausanne, 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...

Parution : Marije Osnabrugge (dir.), « Questioning Pictorial Genres in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art. Definitions, Artistic Practices, Market & Society », Turnhout, Brepols, 2021

This volume embraces the complex and often messy reality of pictorial genres in seventeenth-century Dutch art, by examining how they were defined by artists, theorists, audiences and art historians, how they were part of artistic practices and developed within a specific societal and economic context. Church interiors, cortegaerdjes, scenes of everyday life, tronies, landscapes, spoockerijen, group portraits, bambocciate, hunting scenes, history paintings, sottoboschi, still lives and many other subjects: the wide variety of pictorial genres...

Appel à contribution : « V Art, Power, and Gender Conference. Artists and Female Patrons in Renaissance Europe », Murcie, Universidad de Murcia, 28-29 avril 2022, date limite le 15 avril 2022

The V Art, Power, and Gender Conference is one of the activities organized by the research project MEFER [Portrait Medals and Female Power in Renaissance Europe (I): The Women in the Spanish Monarchy]. The proposed topic for this edition is “Artists and Female Patrons in Renaissance Europe”. Art History research has traditionally associated renowned artists’ names with male figures that, as kings, noblemen, diplomats, or prelates of the church, promoted their artistic careers commissioning works...

Appel à contribution : « Attending to Women, 1100-1800. Performance », Chicago, Newberry Library, 30 septembre-1er octobre 2022, date limite le 15 mars 2022

In 2018, “Attending” asked how Early Modern women’s action and agency shaped their lives and world. In 2022, we will turn to performance, asking how women’s performances of power, gender, and art before 1800 provide powerful paths towards understanding their lives and our own today. The conference will ask such questions as: How do medieval, early modern, and Indigenous women draw on various forms of power, from the racial to the religious, to perform different...

Appel à contribution : « Le corps érotisé dans les arts et les médias. Narration du désir et perception de l’intime », Démiurges, date limite le 1er mars 2022

À l’occasion de la prochaine exposition « Poussin et l’amour » qui se tiendra au Musée des Beaux-Arts le Lyon (novembre 2022-mars 2023), le CRHI (centre de Recherche et d’histoire Inter-médias) de l’École Émile Cohl inaugure sa nouvelle revue scientifique annuelle, Démiurges. Pour son premier numéro, le thème du corps érotisé est questionné. Depuis l’Antiquité, le corps s’est érigé comme un idéal, incarnant les codes d’une société. Les arts et les médias s’en sont emparés pour...

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