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Étiqueté : transitions

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

Appel à contribution : « Metamorphosis from Human to Posthuman », Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 28-29 octobre 2022, date limite le 30 juin 2022

Graduate Symposium Johns Hopkins-Yale Mutamenti: Metamorphosis from the Human to the Posthuman Description From the transformation of Ulysses’ companions in the Odyssey to recent debates on transgender theory, metamorphosis (from the Ancient Greek μεταμόρϕωσις) has played a fundamental role in literary, historical, and anthropological thought. The act of transformation, linked to human evolution and historical-social change, surfaces in a variety of contexts: the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, the transformations of the body and spirit...

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

Parution : Valerie Mainz and Emma Stafford, The Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond, Leyde, Brill, 2020

The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, raising questions about the hero’s role as model of the princely ruler, and examining how the worthiness of this exemplary type came, in time, to be subverted. The volume is one of four to be published in...

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

Parution : Barbara Baert, Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, Leyde, Brill, 2019

Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture is an anthology of the most recent works by Barbara Baert, discussing the connection between the experiences of the senses in the medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, and the limits and possibilities of contemporary Art Sciences. The six chapters include Pentecost, Noli me tangere, the woman with an issue of blood, the Johannesschüssel, the dancing Salome,...