Conférence : « Inside a Parish Church: Art & Religion in 18th-Century Paris ».

 

Choir and transept of the church of Saint-Merry, Paris. Photo by David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Type : Conférence
Date et heure : 24 Octobre 2017 à 18h
Lieu : Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art (DFK), 45 rue des Petits-Champs, Paris

Conférence en anglais proposée par Dr. Hannah Williams, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London.

Religion has become the blindspot of eighteenth-century art history. From Watteau’s fêtes galantes, to Boucher’s rococo nudes, or David’s neoclassical political dramas, the canonical images defining our discipline’s chapters on the late ancien régime are resolutely secular. But the period itself was not. In eighteenth-century Paris, religion was everywhere and so was religious art. This paper is a response to this art-historical conundrum of why eighteenth-century religious art, so important in its time, has since been so consistently overlooked.

Drawn from a larger book project exploring the art and material culture of Paris’s parish churches, this paper focuses on a single parish – Saint-Merry – to discover the story behind its eighteenth-century embellishments. From the reasons that prompted new commissions, to the people involved in its productions, and the inventive ways of paying for it, this study looks at the role that artists played in the development of Paris’s churches, but also the role that religion played in the lives of the city’s artists.

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Citer ce billet
Marlen Schneider (2017, 22 septembre). Conférence : « Inside a Parish Church: Art & Religion in 18th-Century Paris ». Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Moderne. Consulté le 19 mars 2024, à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p6ix

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