Les RDV de l'Histoire de l'art : Novelles perspectives sur l'art du XVe siècle européen

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

The aim of this lecture is to take a fresh look at the art of fifteenth-century Europe and to take a fresh look at the works, the people and the places in order to suggest some problematic perspectives and new angles of analysis that might help us to better understand the tensions running through this key moment in the history of art. Without claiming to present a synthesis or panorama of this century, which was the last century of the Middle Ages and the first century of European artistic modernity, we hope to bring out the main features of the great Western cultural and artistic transformation of the fifteenth century. As the first fires of the Renaissance, lit in Florence in the decade 1410/20, gradually spread across a continent still steeped in a distinctly medieval material and visual culture, the incessant exchanges and transfers that took place there painted an infinitely rich and complex picture.

Meet in the foyer of the Théâtre Municipal.
Free admission!