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

Parution : Zanna van Loon, “The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages in order to efficiently teach religious doctrine to local communities unfamiliar with European culture and religion. This volume considers these missionary books as physical...

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

Appel à communication : Symbols and Appropriations: “Constructing Identities in Early Modern and Renaissance Italy (1350-1600)”, Dublin, RSA 2021, date limite le 3 juillet 2020

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Dublin, 7-10 April 2021 Through history and times, architecture has always been used to express cultural messages and a social status. Since the Late Middle Ages and then throughout the whole Renaissance, the rising and developing system of Italian cities took extensive advantage from the evocative symbols of classical and Christian tradition, and borrowed elements from the past to create “emotional” architectures. Thus, by constructing new buildings and urban...