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

Parution : Justine Walden, “The Sacred and the Secular in Renaissance Florence – Vallombrosan Exorcisms and the Rise of Observant Mendicancy”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

This study of the forces which impelled a group of Florentine monks to perform exorcisms opens a window onto fifteenth-century religious practice, the entanglements of politics and religion, and a decisive shift in religious and political life. Seeking to heal people possessed by demons, stave off Lorenzo de’ Medici’s predations, and compete with the meteoric rise of Observant Mendicants — Franciscans and Dominicans — monks known as Vallombrosans performed multiple exorcisms in Florence and its...

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

Parution : Judith Steinhoff, “Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

SUMMARY This volume is the first to bring together a full range of current trecento art historical thought on the significance of gender in women’s patronage, reception of images, and representations of female characters and individuals. Emerging in the 1970s and 80s, the topics of women, their roles in personal, social, economic, and political life, and the significance of gender have become major issues throughout many fields of scholarship and, indeed, in many aspects of...

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

Parution : Theresa Flanigan et Trinita Kennedy (dir.), “Artistic Encounters in Trecento Italy”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

The fourteenth century in Italy, the age of Giotto, Dante, and Boccaccio, widely known as the trecento, was a pivotal moment in art history and in European culture. The studies in this volume present new approaches to art in this important but often neglected period of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Scholars at various stages in their careers discuss a wide range of topics including architecture, materiality, politics, patronage, and devotion, contributing to...