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Parution : Graham R. Lea, “Silent Eloquence – The Rhetorical Pictures of Biblical History by Hendrick Goltzius and Pieter Lastman”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Focusing on how Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) and Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) assimilated local rhetorical dramaturgy and performance practices found in the work of local rhetoricians (rederijkers), this book examines four examples of biblical history visualized in paintings by Goltzius and/or Lastman and analyses these paintings in comparison to stage texts written for the local chambers of rhetoric and which dramatize the same biblical narratives. Lea argues that Goltzius and Lastman each displayed their powers of poetic...

Appel à contributions : “Immobilizing the Gaze: the Visual Fabrication of Events in the Early Modern Period”, Rome, Centre Chastel et EFR, 28-29 mars 2024, date limite le 15 octobre 2023

In the last century, the emergence of a more critical historical discipline initially generated a distancing from events and event-based history in favour of long-term processes. Art history, for its part, has primarily approached events by focusing on the hierarchy of subjects and, more specifically, historical painting. More recently, various historiographical currents in both disciplines have re-examined the event as a historical and artistic object, questioning the very notion of event and the various aspects...