Appel à contribution : « Painting the Materials, Imitating the Techniques. A Dialogue between Mediums in Early Modern Art », Lyon, CIHA, 23-28 juin 2024, date limite le 15 septembre 2023
How can we comprehend the trend for simulating materials in European painting between the 15th and 17th centuries? Was it simply a demonstration of technical virtuosity underscoring the superiority of pictorial practice over the other arts? These issues are worth revisiting in light of anthropological approaches and materiality studies regarding the communicative potential of early modern images. Since Leonardo, debates on the paragone have essentially focused on the confrontation between painting and sculpture. However, Renaissance...