Appel à communication : « Book Ornament and Luxury Critique », Université de Zurich, date limite le 15 avril 2022
The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” (https://textures-of-scripture.ch) invites paper proposals for a three-day international conference on “Book Ornament and Luxury Critique”. The conference, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is scheduled to take place at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich from 15 to 17 September 2022. In his famous preface to Job, Jerome severely criticizes sumptuous luxury in the ornamentation of...