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Month: December 2015

Intimacy in Early Modern Art

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Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) This session will explore the social implications of intimacy in the production, reception, and circulation of early modern art. Among the questions that could be addressed are: How did artists deploy particular media or exploit the material qualities of their works to craft advantageous intimacies with their desired constituents? To what ends did patrons ask artists to portray socially intimate relationships? In what ways did the display or circulation of works help to shape intimacy, whether through forging or fissuring bonds? Could...

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Nos adhérent-e-s publient

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The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe – The Toronto Series, Vol. 36 2015, 320 p., ISBN 978-0-86698-530-7, $34.95 The second half of the seventeenth century marked the first major breakthrough for women playwrights in France, as some of them succeeded in getting their works staged, published and taken seriously by critics and authority figures. The four works included here, translated into English for the first time, represent the diversity of genres cultivated by these writers, while reflecting both the cultural milieu of the era and a concern for the status of women. Françoise...

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Dansez, embrassez qui vous voudrez. Fêtes et plaisirs d’amour au siècle de Madame de Pompadour

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Musée Louvre Lens, Galerie d’exposition temporaire Commissariat : Xavier Salmon Répondant à une soif de liberté et à un assouplissement des moeurs pendant la Régence, ce thème clamait la joie de vivre, les délices de l’amour, l’alchimie des sentiments et le besoin de paraître. Dans le sillage de Watteau, le genre de la Fête galante fut adopté par son élève Jean-Baptiste Pater ainsi que par ses suiveurs Nicolas Lancret, Bonaventure de Bar ou Pierre-Antoine Quillard. D’autres maîtres en proposèrent à leur tour des variations, pastorales chez François Boucher ou...

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