Appel à contribution : “Tractive Forces : Potentials of Art in the Trecento”, Hambourg, Université d’Hambourg, du 6 au 8 mai 2026, date limite le 15 décembre 2025.
Organised by Wolf-Dietrich Löhr and Gerd Micheluzzi Pull, draw, attract, and captivate. The question of ‘tractive forces’ in fourteenth-century Italian art has so far received only limited scholarly attention. Yet these forces illuminate qualities that allow us to examine production processes, materiality, and mediality, as well as motifs and their beholders, in their physical, metaphysical, technical, and aesthetic dimensions. It is not by chance, we hypothesise, that Francesco Petrarca speaks of a “force” (vis) in...



