Les RDV de l'Histoire de l'art : Une enquête sur un savoir-faire virtuose des constructeurs de la fin du Moyen Âge

Continuation of our series of lectures with Jean-Marie Guillouët, Professor of History of Medieval Art at the University of Burgundy and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Through a close and detailed examination of a craft procedure that is very simple in principle and relatively marginal in scale, many of the practical, devotional and cultural issues at stake in flamboyant Gothic architecture in France and Europe are revealed. As such, this object becomes the pretext for a fascinating investigation of microstoria: it provides a better understanding of the social history of the protagonists of artistic creation at the end of the Middle Ages. This technical detail reveals a whole area of craft creation in flamboyant architecture, in the Gothic style that can be described as "hyper-technical".

Meet in the foyer of the municipal theatre.
Free admission!