Call for Paper : “Le stuc dans les grands décors français, de la Renaissance au XIXe siècle » (11-13 décembre 2023, Paris, Versailles, Fontainebleau)”

L’usage du stuc dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge a suscité l’intérêt des historiens de l’art et des scientifiques du patrimoine français. Par contre, hormis dans la sphère provençale et languedocienne, où le milieu universitaire est particulièrement actif sur le sujet des décors, le stuc demeure un champ d’étude encore trop peu exploré en France pour la période de la Renaissance au XIXe siècle.

Pourtant, le vaste sujet du stuc connaît en Europe un certain engouement, comme en témoignent le Centro Studi per la Storia dello Stucco in Età Moderna e Contemporanea, les publications du Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed des Pays-Bas, les colloques organisés par la Low Countries Sculpture Society et par l’université de Pardubice, en République Tchèque.


La galerie Mazarin à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, la chambre de la duchesse d’Étampes, la galerie François Ier et la Porte Dorée à Fontainebleau, la galerie d’Apollon et l’appartement d’été d’Anne d’Autriche au Louvre ou encore la galerie des Glaces et le salon de Diane à Versailles sont autant de campagnes de restaurations récentes ou en cours qui concernent en partie le stuc. Elles sont l’opportunité de mettre en lumière la question du stuc dans les grands décors français en stuc, de la Renaissance au XIXe siècle.

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Publication: De l’Aragon au Frioul : esquisse d’une géographie des plafonds peints médiévaux

Publication: De l’Aragon au Frioul : esquisse d’une géographie des plafonds peints médiévaux
Monique Bourin, Maud Pérez-Simon et Georges Puchal (dir.)
Actes des rencontres RCPPM (Lagrasse, octobre 2015)

Paris, Editions de la Sorbonne, 2021.
EAN électronique : 9791035106331
DOI : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.83555

Présentation with the table of contents of the books :  https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/83555

Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, in the western Mediterranean regions, princes, lords, prelates and businessmen liked to decorate the interiors of their homes richly. They brought the image into their homes, forerunners of a long history of domestic spaces. Today, thanks to restorations, we are rediscovering the abundant decoration of the ceilings, more rarely that of the walls. Hundreds, thousands of previously unpublished images have come to light, revealing an almost unknown secular Middle Ages.

Amongst the luxuriance of the cornices and mouldings where ribbons wind or flowers and foliage blossom, the boards slid between the joists have received paintings whose thematic variety opens up a new part of the imagination of these centuries. The rigour of the heraldic programme is combined with an animal world that is often fantastic, but also domestic, familiar or exotic. Here and there, sketches show human figures at play, at festivals, at work (very little), or in combat. Here, the vein is refined, there, of comic truculence.

This book covers, for the first time, all the Mediterranean regions that participated in this taste for painted frames, traces the chronology of their history, observes the common features of their inspiration and brings out the nuances: the Renaissance and the Antique are expressed at the same time as the funniness of the fabliaux.

Markus Castor : The concept of emergence as a methodological tool for understanding ceiling paintings?

Seminary, march 2, 2023.

Markus A. Castor
The concept of emergence as a methodological tool for understanding ceiling paintings?
Some remarks on the symposium Emergence – from place to the space of images, Paris, December 2022

Regarding the symposium in Paris in December 2022[1] that focused the theme of emergence and the phenomena of interactions between pictorial space and the viewers space, the question arose whether and to what extent such a concept of emergence could be a useful instrument for understanding painted and sculpted ceiling design. In the following, we will address some of the aspects discussed at the conference in order to relate them to our questions of the project.

For the complete version of the text: Emergence ENGL_PDF

[1] Du lieu à l’espace des images dans l’art français du XVIIe au XIXe siècle, Colloque du 8 au 11 déc., Paris, Hôtel Lully, organisé par Julia Kloss-Weber, Valérie Kobi et Markus A. Castor (https://dfk-paris.org/fr/event/emergence-3499.html ).

 

A new ceiling par Gerard de Lairesse

A three-part ceiling painting by Gerard de Lairesse has been found in the collection of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE). They form one colossal trompe l’oeil with an opening in the middle under which Fame flies.

 

Exhibition in Washington on Drawings for Painted Ceilings

At the National Gallery in Washington a series of 30 preparatory drawings for painted ceilings is currently to be seen. The show “Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800” runs January 29 – July 9, 2023.  The exhibition is curated by Jonathan Bober, former Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art.

Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner, The Stoning of Saint Stephen, 1754. Washington, National Gallery of Art

3D restitution technologies for enhanced knowledge of medieval painted ceilings

Georges Puchal y Marion Ortiz : Les technologies de restitution 3D au service de la connaissance des plafonds peints médiévaux (3D restitution technologies for enhanced knowledge of medieval painted ceilings)

In Patrimoines du Sud, 12, 2020 : Patrimoines et numérique : un état de la recherche et des expérimentations (Heritage and digital solutions: a status report on research and experimentation)

https://doi.org/10.4000/pds.4518

3D modelling is of real interest in the research and dissemination of knowledge on medieval painted ceilings. Intrinsic to architecture, but also carrying rich and as yet unknown, artistic and social content, their study is complex for several reasons. Site access issues and complex structures with multiple volumes, make reading the ensembles difficult. Research work over the last thirty years has demonstrated the importance of the general organisation of decorative elements when studying symbolism. The use of digital imagery via 3D modelling makes it possible to overcome these constraints. The International Association for Research on Medieval Painted Structures and Ceilings (RCPPM) is currently exploring ways of applying 3D modelling to these objects of study.

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A publication on roman painted ceilings

Alix Barbet : Coupoles, voûtes et plafonds peints d’époque romaine. Ier-IVe siècle apr. J.-C., Paris, Hermann, Paris, 2021.

ISBN : 9791037006806
Dimensions : 23.1 x 28.7 cm
Pages : 350
Prix : 64,00 €

The book is available on CAIRN : https://www.cairn.info/coupoles-voutes-et-plafonds-peints-d-epoque-romain–9791037006806.htm

The study of the domes, vaults and painted ceilings of the Roman Empire is an undertaking that takes us from present-day Great Britain to the borders of ancient Mesopotamia, via the countries of Eastern Europe, not forgetting North Africa, as far as Libya and Egypt. More than four hundred decors are studied and photographed, some of which have disappeared, been destroyed or stolen. Of the two hundred and seventy-two sites from which these paintings come, sixty are from Gaul, thus almost a quarter of the sites illustrated with a perspective of Gaul in the space of the Roman world.

We are trying to classify these paintings, which at first imitate the wooden or stone caissons that preceded them, then the draperies, before inventing very varied decorative schemes, close to certain mosaic pavements. Flowerbeds are obviously abundant in the tombs, where they remind us of the annual rose festival dedicated to the deceased. An emperor like Nero added gold to the vaults of his palace, rightly called the Domus Aurea, which inspired Renaissance painters when it was discovered. The link between the past and the present can be read through this investigation.

(translation of the french presentation on the website of the publisher).

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Publication :”Das Schloss als Zeichen des Aufstiegs”

Das Schloss als Zeichen des Aufstiegs

Die Ausstattung von Vaux-le-Vicomte im Kontext repräsentativer Strategien des neuen Adels im französischen 17. Jahrhundert

Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär (HKI) – Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur

Der 1661 beginnenden Alleinherrschaft König Ludwigs XIV. ging in Frankreich eine Phase intensiver baulicher Aktivität in Kreisen aufgestiegener Staats- und Finanzeliten voraus. Zu den wichtigsten der insbesondere im Pariser Umland entstandenen Anwesen zählt das für Nicolas Fouquet erbaute Schloss von Vaux-le-Vicomte, welches hier als Fallstudie für die Wechselwirkung zwischen sozialer Mobilität und Kunst dient. Der Band nimmt die unter der Federführung von Charles Le Brun zwischen 1657 und 1661 entstandene Ausstattung von Schloss und Garten in den Blick und stellt diese in den Kontext vergleichbarer Bau- und Ausstattungsprojekte der Zeit.

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Internationale Tagung des Akademienprojekts „Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland“ : “Barocke Deckenmalerei und die Begleitmedien der Repräsentation – Perspektiven der Produktion und Rezeption”

Deckenmalerei wird im 17. Jahrhundert in Verbindung mit der Architektur das wohl wichtigste Medium dynastischer, fürstlicher, kirchlicher Repräsentation im ganzen mitteleuropäischen Gebiet. Ihr Hauptzweck und Inhalt ist die visuelle Demonstration von Status, Macht und Geltung, aber auch von Zugehörigkeit, Geschmack und Kultiviertheit ihrer Auftraggeber. Ihr Ort ist im profanen Bereich die Residenz eines Territorialherrn: das Schloss des Fürsten, der große Saal, die Repräsentations- oder Prunkgemächer. Im sakralen Bereich dient an erster Stelle der Kirchenraum selbst als Oberfläche, der wiederum oft fein untergliedert ist.

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Article : “Georges Puchal and Marion Ortiz, “Les technologies de restitution 3D au service de la connaissance des plafonds peints médiévaux”, Patrimoines du Sud [Online], 12 | 2020”

3D modelling is of real interest in the research and dissemination of knowledge on medieval painted ceilings. Intrinsic to architecture, but also carrying rich and as yet unknown, artistic and social content, their study is complex for several reasons. Site access issues and complex structures with multiple volumes, make reading the ensembles difficult. Research work over the last thirty years has demonstrated the importance of the general organisation of decorative elements when studying symbolism. The use of digital imagery via 3D modelling makes it possible to overcome these constraints. The International Association for Research on Medieval Painted Structures and Ceilings (RCPPM) is currently exploring ways of applying 3D modelling to these objects of study.
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