Baroque & Rococo art history
More general subjects:
Polyhistor Europaeus
Études sur l’âge classique offertes à Chantal Grell
Le vieux mot grec polyhistor désignait jusqu’au XVIIe siècle à la fois un savant aux multiples compétences et un vade-mecum bibliographique embrassant tout le champ des savoirs.
C’est le cas de Chantal Grell qui au fil de sa carrière a exploré tout l’âge classique en Europe dans ses domaines les plus divers de l’Espagne à la Pologne avec Versailles pour centre de gravité.
C’est aussi le cas du présent recueil où soixante-quatre chercheurs ont rassemblé en deux volumes des contributions de haut niveau scientifique sur ses thèmes de prédilection.
Le tome I traite des antiquités et de l’historiographie d’histoire des savoirs et des idées le tome II des cours et de la diplomatie des arts et des collections.
Contending Representations III: Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa
Several studies have been devoted to the flowering of the republic of Genoa during the so-called ‘siglo de los Genoveses’ when Genoa became the hub of European trade and an important center of artistic and literary production. Yet little attention has been granted to the political and cultural crisis that followed starting in 1559 and culminating in 1684 when the French bombed Genoa. Addressing this chronological gap the volume explores how the image of the Genoese Republic was shaped exploited or contested in the long seventeenth century. How did Genoese politicians and men of letters represent their homeland? How was Genoa represented in Spain or in the Low Countries? How was its political system conceived by Italian and foreign political writers and how did the prevailing absolutist model influence such ideas? In order to answer these questions the volume gathers contributions from art historians literary scholars political and cultural historians thus adopting a comparative multidisciplinary approach.
Front Matter (“Contents”)
Contending Representations I: The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy
This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Bringing together scholars from different backgrounds the volume aims to stimulate a cross-disciplinary dialogue about representations in art literature ritual and other media. Within the Dutch Republic different state actors - the city the provincial states the States General the stadtholders and individual power-holders - vied for the supremacy of power. A vital aspect of this persistent struggle was its representative dimension. In making representative claims about their place in the balance of power these institutions all faced the challenge of developing a republican language that was both distinctive enough and universally understood. In the cultural repertoires available to political figures artists and intellectuals republican models contended with monarchical ones. In visual and literary depictions public ritual and diplomatic encounters alike the temptation to stand up to the grandeur of powerful European monarchies by borrowing from their representative traditions was not always easy to resist.