March 19,20 and 21, 2018, at the Collège de France.
Study days organized with the support of Labex TranSferS
The aim of these study days is to present a crucial and exciting season in the history of this artistic genre, closely linked to social, political and religious mutations. The survey will be led by illustrious specialists and will describe the major transformations - in form and style - undergone by the art of portraiture between the middle of the 16th century and the first decades of the following century in the various European centers. Analysis of the rules that characterized portrait production during the Counter-Reformation, and study of the restrictions imposed by Protestant iconoclasm, will enrich our understanding of the works of the genre's finest interpreters. Observation of models and objectives, between official portraiture and private, intimate or family effigy, will lead to an unprecedented deepening of this veritable "European network" of dynastic and formal portraiture. It will also look at the extraordinary production of naturalist painting in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
