Étiqueté : reliques

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

Appel à contribution : « Immured Relics – Display, Signs and Memory », Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 28-29 novembre 2024, date limite le 18 mars 2024

This workshop is to explore the relation between relics and architecture. First and foremost, we are interested in cases of relics physically built into the architectural fabric of churches and chapels, such as columns whose capitals have been equipped with relics, triumphal arches or the apse’s semi-dome with relic depositories, “secret chambers” or even foundations and walls fortified by holy material. In order to capture the variety of the phenomenon we decided to exclude the...

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

Appel à contribution : « Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility », en ligne, 9-11 mai 2024, date limite le 15 septembre 2023

Special session at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (hybrid event): Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility. This special online session wishes to analyze the power of the Virgin Mary’s relics as triggers not only to processions and pilgrimages but also to Marian cults competition. The scientific importance of the session lies in understanding how these devotional objects could be perceived as activators of civic prestige. The possession of these relics...

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

Parution : Nicolas Guyard, Les Reliques du Christ, Paris, Cerf, 2022

Saint Suaire, fragments de la Vraie Croix, couronne d’épines, clous de la Passion, mais aussi prépuce ou encore dents de lait : depuis la fin du iiie siècle, les reliques du Christ n’ont cessé de peupler l’imaginaire des croyants. La fascination qu’elles exercent nous transporte entre évocation et vénération, à la frontière entre le réel et le merveilleux. Preuves tangibles de l’existence de Jésus face au vide du Sépulcre, elles interrogent les fondements de la...

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

Parution : Livia Stoenescu (dir.), The Interaction of Art and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020

The collection of essays gathered in this volume investigates the interaction between art and relics as a distinct historical relevance for devotional art of Early Modernity and the Renaissance. Recent studies in the material culture of artifacts from these periods have drawn increasing attention to a sense of material tangibility derived from relics. Putting that conclusion into perspective, this edited collection focuses on the aesthetic meaning generated by a specific material culture of sanctity –...

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