Appel à communication : Evidence of Power in the Ruler Portrait, 14th – 18th Cent.

Philippe de Champaigne, Portrait de Louis XIII, après 1670, huile sur toile, 86 x 108 cm, Madrid, musée du Prado

Type : appel à communication

Date limite de l’appel : 30 avril 2017

Date de la manifestation : 1 – 2 décembre 2017

Lieu : Munich / München, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

Conference Concept (short version)

What meanings do head and body convey in the medieval and early modern ruler portrait? How do its mimetic schemes and visual projections of power relate to each other? How are conceptually abstract norms and values of rulership transposed to categories of looking, how do images of bodies concretize these norms and values, and what modes of representation do they cultivate? Research on the history of portraits has relegated these questions to the margins; we presently lack a systematic analysis. Nevertheless, head and body forged central attributes and categories for physical manifestations of rulership in the Middle Ages and early modern period. The specific conditions of their visual portrayal is therefore of particular interest. Unlike in republican or democratic political systems, where the presence and legitimation of ruling power is supported by an elected government or a constitution, in principalities and monarchies the prince or king himself guaranteed the legitimacy of his own rule. He did this above all else through his physical body, whose visually and haptically experienced presence first lent the necessary evidence for his sovereignty. Continuer la lecture de Appel à communication : Evidence of Power in the Ruler Portrait, 14th – 18th Cent.

Publication : The Wonder of the North : Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal.

NEWMAN Mark, The Wonder of the North : Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2015, 406 p.
NEWMAN Mark, The Wonder of the North : Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2015, 406 p.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

Dubbed the ‘Wonder of the North’ in 1732, the National Trust’s Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate (now a World Heritage Site) encompasses one of the largest, most magnificent and beautiful designed landscapes ever created. This richly illustrated volume charts the landscape’s history from the first arrival of prehistoric hunters, via medieval monasticism, the Dissolution of the monasteries, eighteenth-century aestheticism and scandal, and the first ages of mass tourism, to the present day. At the heart of the story lies the rise and fall of England’s largest Cistercian monastery and how that shaped the origins of the Aislabie family’s breathtaking gardens. Their Studley Royal was at the forefront of every emergent landscape gardening fashion between 1670 and 1800. The book also describes the dramatic history of the family and the monumental scale of their achievements in this field, extending over many dozens of square miles of North Yorkshire—far beyond the limits of the garden as it is seen today (reduced to serve the more limited needs of Victorian day-trippers). The Wonder of the North brings social and garden history together with archaeology to reveal Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal—too often seen as ‘just’ a ruined medieval monastery—as one of the world’s greatest artistic creations.

Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur le site de l’éditeur.

Rechercher dans OpenEdition Search

Vous allez être redirigé vers OpenEdition Search