[Colloque] Architecture et mobilier de cour vers 1500 en Europe

Colloque organisé  par Alain Salamagne (CESR) et Lucie Gaugain (CeTHiS) en clôture du programme APR Médicis porté par le CESR.

Between the previous tradition and the renovation of forms, European architecture is in deep change around the 1500s, either it relies on a body of previous references that are still pregnant, or it tries to surpass them. Recent research has highlighted the wealth of formal solutions specific to the Gothic style, which at the end of the Middle Ages became a place for experimenting with new solutions, while a new language inspired by Antiquity or Italy began to impose itself during the first Renaissance. Recent research has reevaluated the weight and influence of romanesque art in the Renaissance (Romanesque Renaissance, ed. Konrad Ottenheym, 2021) but, beyond that, the multiple architectural references found in the earlier monuments are recognizable. Around 1500 the French royal châteaux, such as those of Amboise and Blois, offered remarkable examples of buildings with a varied and apparently contradictory stylistic repertoire, drawing on their sources from earlier models. The opening to Italian humanism, the valorization of the history of the « Gauls » in works like the Romuleon, their illustration by the illuminators (as well as by Colombe) contributed to re-inscribing the distant past in the present, perceived not through the concept of Antiquity but through that of seniority.

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