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Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance

Exposition : Venice 1500 Jacopo de’ Barbari and the rise of printmaking, Londres, British Museum, jusqu’au 21 mai 2023

Focusing on Jacopo de’ Barbari and his celebrated ‘View of Venice’, this display showcases the innovation and variety of printmaking on the lagoon during the High Renaissance. In 1500, a huge woodcut View of Venice was printed in the city. Undertaken by the mysterious Jacopo de’ Barbari, the project was unprecedented in its ambition. It required extensive research to reproduce the lagoon in painstaking detail, and, at nearly three metres wide, considerable skill to make such a...

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Colloques et journées d'étude

Colloque : « Printing Colour and Colouring Prints », Varsovie, Université de Varsovie et en ligne, 23-24 juin 2022

Printing Colour and Colouring Prints in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe: Comparative Perspectives 23–24 June 2022 Warsaw, Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Building of the Faculty of Culture and Arts, room 108 First day 10:00 Opening of Conference and Welcome Speeches, Mariusz Smoliński (University of Warsaw), Karolina Mroziewicz (University of Warsaw) 10:30-11:30 Key-note lecture, Elizabeth Savage (University of London), The International Trade in Colour Printing, 1400–1600 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break 12:00-13:30 Printing...

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Appels à contribution

Appel à contribution : « Message, Messenger, or False Friend ? Early Modern Print as Intermediary, Workshop », Munich, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, du 28 au 29 juin 2019, date limite le 1er avril 2019

International workshop supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung in collaboration with the SACRIMA project, to be held at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (28-29 June, 2019) In the early modern era, woodcut and engraved prints operated on multiple levels: as individual creations, and as resources representing preexisting images, objects and spaces. Given the medium’s inherent multiplicity and mobility, prints effectively project visual ideas and concepts, creating mobile models in image and text for dissemination. The...

À l'étranger / Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Expositions

Exposition : « The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy », Los Angeles County Museum of Art, du 3 juin au 16 septembre 2018.

Displaying exquisite designs, technical virtuosity, and sumptuous color, chiaroscuro woodcuts are among the most striking prints of the Renaissance. First introduced in Italy around 1516, the chiaroscuro woodcut, which involves printing an image from two or more woodblocks inked in different hues, was one of the most successful early forays into color printing in Europe. Taking its name from the Italian for “light” (chiaro) and “shade” (scuro), the technique creates the illusion of depth through...

À l'étranger / Expositions

Exposition : “A Revolution in Printmaking. The Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcut of the Sixteenth Century”, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, du 22 septembre 2017 au 14 janvier 2018.

A Revolution in Printmaking. The Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcut of the Sixteenth Century. Cologne – Wallraf-Richartz Museum 22 septembre 2017 – 14 janvier 2018   Scarcely another method has had such a deep and lasting effect on print-making as the invention in 1516 of the chiaroscuro woodcut by Italian artist Ugo da Carpi. After centuries of simple woodcut prints, the chiaroscuro technique constituted a totally new means of expression. By using differently cut wood blocks, artists...