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

Parution : Rozanne Versendaal, “Le mandement joyeux et la culture joyeuse en France et dans les anciens Pays-Bas (XVe-XVIIe siècles)”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

Ce livre apporte essentiellement une nouvelle interprétation des pratiques joyeuses et parodiques à travers l’étude d’une source littéraire, le mandement joyeux, dans une période de grands changements sociaux, politiques et religieux en France et dans les anciens Pays-Bas aux XVe-XVIIe siècles. Les XVe-XVIe siècles se caractérisent d’un épanouissement de la culture festive en France et dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Cette culture festive ou joyeuse, encore souvent étudiée sous l’angle politique des mécanismes de confrontation entre...

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

Parution : Steven J. Cody et Tiffany Lynn Hunt (dir.), “The Mannerist Altarpiece – Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Formally elegant, stylistically refined, rarefied in their display of knowledge and skill, Mannerist altarpieces are endlessly fascinating. Whereas previous scholarship aligns Mannerism with the world of secular concerns, the authors included in this volume chart a different course of interpretation. According to our argument, Mannerist altarpieces offer spectators a type of religious experience so stylized, so exquisitely beautiful that it becomes a work of art itself. In this respect, The Mannerist Altarpiece raises new possibilities for thinking...

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

Exposition : “Tablescapes”, Courtrai, Texture, du 26 septembre 2025 au 31 août 2027

Texture presents Tablescapes, an exhibition featuring a selection of napkins and tablecloths from its historic damask collection alongside contemporary works by master folder Joan Sallas and textile designer Emilie Palle Holm. The display explores the artistry of the decorated table, a tradition that flourished in Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The Rise of Damask in the Low Countries While the technique of damask weaving originated in Asia and reached Europe via the Silk...

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

Parution : Silvia Tita, “Legal Visuality – Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

A methodologically innovative study of a crucial political and visual theme whose longevity and implications in relation to changing conditions and mentalities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are revealed here for the first time. This study is the first to explore the reasons for the intriguing proliferation of the visual theme of the Donation of Constantine in the early modern period and the implications of the theme for the global politics of the papacy. The (in)famous Donation,...

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Parution : Margaret M. McGowan, “Harmony in the Universe”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

A new approach to the study of Peace in Renaissance Festivals. Recognizing the potency of war, artists, writers, poets, composers and choreographers sought new ways of promoting harmony in the state through their varied inventions for court spectacle. This book is, sadly, a posthumous publication. It is the author’s last work and offers a new approach to the study of Peace in early modern Europe. It explores the creations made by artists, poets, composers, and...

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

Parution : Karl A.E. Enenkel, “New Intellectual Saints”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

This book explores the reinvention of the Greek philosophers by seventeenth-century painters who transformed them into saintly icons of the intellectual life. Fundamental is the novel conception of these philosophers as itinerant beggars and dedicated writers of aphorisms. Drawing heavily on Diogenes Laertius, Erasmus and other author-collectors of apothegms, the painters create living and above all speaking images of the philosophers which were meant to trigger reflection on the core issues of human existence. Above...

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

Parution : Florence Gétreau et Fulvia Morabito (dir.), “Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

The figurative arts — or the arts that transcribe the visible — are interested in music in many ways. If we consider the hierarchy of genres, particularly formalised at the end of the 17th century with the advent of the academies, music is present in religious subjects, historical and mythological themes, the performing arts, genre scenes, portraits and still lifes. Artists offered musical motifs using a wide variety of techniques, including painting of course, but...

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

Parution : Letizia Pellegrini (dir.), A Companion to San Bernardino da Siena, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Bernardino da Siena (Massa Marittima 1380 – L’Aquila 1444) is one of the most famous preachers of the 15th century. He was canonized in 1450 and has been considered for centuries the charismatic “founder” of the Franciscan Observance. He definitely made an impact on the church and society of his time. Thanks to the spreading fame of his charisma, he gave rise to a long-lasting tradition that goes even beyond the Franciscan history. This companion...

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

Parution : Koenraad Jonckheere, “Rubens’s Questions”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

Rubens’s Questions: Religion, Paragone, and the Ontology of Painting explores the pivotal role of doubt in understanding the work of Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens’s Questions: Religion, Paragone, and the Ontology of Painting explores the pivotal role of doubt in understanding the work of Peter Paul Rubens. Focusing on his easel paintings from the 1610s, this book argues that Rubens engaged with the era’s most pressing intellectual debates without resorting to overt dogma. His works served as open-ended...

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Parution : Jürgen Müller, “Der Judaskuss der Malerei – Subversive Bildstrategien im Werk von Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Caravaggio’s art is subjected to a political interpretation that draws on Erasmus’s writings to explain his paintings. According to Erasmus’s Philosophia christiana, in contrast to Gabriele Paleotti’s Discorso intorno alle immagini sacre e profane of 1582, the sacred is best expressed through the profane. The divine is hidden beneath the cloak of the ugly and the vulgar. Numerous interpretations refer to the dissimulation of anti-Catholic content in Caravaggio’s paintings and the tradition of Pasquino. As poems from Marino’s Galeria show,...