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Étiqueté : religious art

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

Parution : Judith Steinhoff, “Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

SUMMARY This volume is the first to bring together a full range of current trecento art historical thought on the significance of gender in women’s patronage, reception of images, and representations of female characters and individuals. Emerging in the 1970s and 80s, the topics of women, their roles in personal, social, economic, and political life, and the significance of gender have become major issues throughout many fields of scholarship and, indeed, in many aspects of...

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

Parution : Theresa Flanigan et Trinita Kennedy (dir.), “Artistic Encounters in Trecento Italy”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

The fourteenth century in Italy, the age of Giotto, Dante, and Boccaccio, widely known as the trecento, was a pivotal moment in art history and in European culture. The studies in this volume present new approaches to art in this important but often neglected period of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Scholars at various stages in their careers discuss a wide range of topics including architecture, materiality, politics, patronage, and devotion, contributing to...

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

Parution : Katherine T. Brown, “Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800”, Londres, Routledge, 2025

Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art. Based in the disciplines of art history, botany, and theology, this study focuses on selected works of art in which tree forms embody and reflect Christian themes. Through this triple lens, Brown examines trees that early modern artists rendered as sacred symbols—symbols with origins in the Old Testament, New Testament, Greek and Roman cultures, and early medieval legends. Tree...