Image et évènement : l’art sans la Peste (c. 1348-c. 1400) ?
This paper looks at whether or not the Black Death had an effect on art in the mid-14th century. Historiography had regularly suggested that the Plague had caused profound changes in art, notably in the major work by Millard Meiss published in 1951. But subsequent research had shown that the links b...
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| Language: | fra |
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Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Images Re-Vues |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/14413 |
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| Summary: | This paper looks at whether or not the Black Death had an effect on art in the mid-14th century. Historiography had regularly suggested that the Plague had caused profound changes in art, notably in the major work by Millard Meiss published in 1951. But subsequent research had shown that the links between the terrible event and the transformations in art at the end of the Middle Ages were not obvious, and that several phenomena read as reactions by artists to the catastrophe, such as the emergence of macabre or terrifying iconography, had in fact pre-existed the epidemic. Jérôme Baschet takes as his starting point the case of the Last Judgments, of which the one in the Camposanto in Pisa predates 1347, before returning to the various causal links that have been inferred between the Plague and the images: he shows that they are tenuous, and calls into question the notion of "crisis art". More broadly, he uses this emblematic case to propose methods and a framework for thinking about the relationship between art and event. |
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| ISSN: | 1778-3801 |