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Étiqueté : métamorphoses

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

Appel à contribution : « Metamorphosis – Ecstases of Matter and Image », Copenhague/en ligne, Copenhagen University, 30-31 mai 2024, date limite le 1er mai 2024

METAMORPHOSIS – ECSTASES OF MATTER AND IMAGE Bodies of Splendor: Between Fluidity And Petrifaction Organizer: Nicoletta Isar – IMAGINARY LAB 4: SENSATIONS – INEFFABLE ARCHAEOLOGIES – Art History and Visual Culture Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University Metamorphosis, since Heraclitus, has been perceived as a fleeting state in constant transformation of matter. Or, as Empedocles put it, as a cosmic cycle of eternal change, growth and decay of the elementals where love and...

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

Appel à contribution : « Metamorphosis in the Arts (c.500-c.1700) », Special Issue, date limite le 20 septembre 2022

This Special Issue considers the phenomenon of metamorphosis within oral traditions, literary genres, and the visual and theatrical arts dating from approximately 500 to 1700. Contributors are invited to submit articles examining the role of metaphysical transformation within the interplay of contexts—social, sacred, geographical, political, economic, and intellectual—in which they originated, were re-imagined, and/or developed across time. We hope to assemble research relevant to a broad range of mythical, folkloric, and religious/spiritual transformations; subjects may...

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

Appel à contribution : « Metamorphosis from Human to Posthuman », Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 28-29 octobre 2022, date limite le 30 juin 2022

Graduate Symposium Johns Hopkins-Yale Mutamenti: Metamorphosis from the Human to the Posthuman Description From the transformation of Ulysses’ companions in the Odyssey to recent debates on transgender theory, metamorphosis (from the Ancient Greek μεταμόρϕωσις) has played a fundamental role in literary, historical, and anthropological thought. The act of transformation, linked to human evolution and historical-social change, surfaces in a variety of contexts: the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, the transformations of the body and spirit...

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

Parution : Karl A.E. Enenkel et Jan de Jong (dir.), Re-inventing Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Leyde, Brill, 2020

This volume explores early modern recreations of myths from Ovid’s immensely popular Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers and on the peculiarities of the various media that were applied. The contributors try to tease out what (pictorial) devices, perspectives, and interpretative markers were used that do not occur in the original text of the Metamorphoses, what aspects were brought to the fore or emphasized, and how these are to be explained. Expounding the whatabouts of...