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Étiqueté : Paradis

Appel à contribution : « Purgatory To Paradise – Visualizing the Iter Salvationis in Medieval Art », Kalamazoo, 8-10 mai 2025, date limite le 14 septembre 2024

This special session wishes to analyze the representations of souls in Purgatory and their journey toward Paradise. The exempla employed in medieval texts and sermons featured vividly impactful imagery designed to engage the audience and leave a lasting impression. In medieval visual art, how are themes of sin, punishment, and, importantly, the possibility of salvation portrayed? Additionally, what is the significance of depicting souls in purgatory as naked? How this symbolism can be interpreted in...

Exposition : « Conserving Eden: Cranach’s Adam and Eve from the Norton Simon », Los Angeles, The Getty Center, 23 janvier-21 avril 2024

Painting in a distinctive sensuous style, Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472–1553) interpreted biblical subjects with humorous insight and flair. His striking portrayals of Adam and Eve beneath the Tree of Knowledge are among the highlights of the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California. These captivating life-size paintings are presented for the first time at Getty following a multi-year conservation treatment and technical study. Look for Cranach’s Adam and Eve in the Museum’s...

Appel à contribution : « Visualizations of the Heavens (4000 BCE-1700 CE) », en ligne, 5-30 juillet 2021, 9 août-11 septembre 2021, date limite le 30 avril 2021

Summer Database Workshops, MPIWG (online, 5 Jul-11 Sep 21) online / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG) Dept. III, Jul 5–Sep 11, 2021 Deadline: Apr 30, 2021 Call for Participation: Database Summer Workshops I: July 5, 2021 – July 30, 2021 II: August 9, 2021 – Sept. 11, The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG) Dept. III is seeking several interested participants for two workshops of four weeks...

Exposition : “Heroes, Martyrs, Saints. Routes to Paradise”, Nuremberg, Germanisches National Museum, jusqu’au 4 octobre 2020

Heroes, martyrs, saints – we are fascinated by brave heroes, strong-willed visionaries and staunch defenders of what is (supposedly) right. Stories about them interest and at the same time motivate us to emulate the protagonist. Heroes like this provide an example for our own lives and can bring hope in difficult times. And it is irrelevant whether the person is a historical or fictional figure. Around 50 exhibits from the 13th to 15th century, highlights...

Appel à contribution : “Rituals of the Heavenly and Earthly Kingdoms: The Sacred, Secular, and Sacramental Powers in Premodern Europe”, Varsovie, du 20 au 22 mai 2020, date limite le 15 juillet 2019

« Rituals of the Heavenly and Earthly Kingdoms: The Sacred, Secular, and Sacramental Powers in Premodern Europe » will be held at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland from May 20-22, 2020. An abstract (between 300 and 500 words) and a short biography should be sent to Paweł Figurski, Ph.D. by July 15, 2019. Before the dawn of Modernity, premodern Europe was “Christendom”, a society in which there was no sharp demarcation between theology and politics, ecclesial...

Conférence : Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, « Le voleur de Paradis. Le bon larron dans l’art et la société (XIVe-XVIe siècles) », Tours, 21 mars 2016

Conférence : Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, « Le voleur de Paradis. Le bon larron dans l’art et la société (XIVe-XVIe siècles) » Entre fin du Moyen Âge et Renaissance, le personnage du Bon larron fait son chemin dans la conscience et les dévotions des chrétiens d’Occident. Il accompagne les fidèles vers une « bonne mort » et trouve sa place dans les mises en scène des Lieux saints et les images de la Crucifixion. Médiateur entre l’Ancienne...

Appel à contribution : “Between Heaven and Earth: Ecclesiastical Patronage in Europe, 1400-1600”, date limite : 2 février 2015

Appel à contribution : “Between Heaven and Earth: Ecclesiastical Patronage in Europe, 1400-1600”, date limite : 2 février 2015

Call for papers “Beetween Heaven and Hell : Ecclesiastical patronage in Europe, 1400-1600” Londres, Courtauld Institute of Art,  Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN   Deadline for CFP : 2 February 2015 Third Annual Renaissance Symposium at the Courtauld Institute of Art : 9 May 2015 In recent years, the artistic commissions of ecclesiastic and lay patrons – both individual and collective – have been a fruitful area of scholarship. Research addressing issues of sacred space, devotional...