The Worksite in the 16th Century: Architecture and Decoration. Fontainebleau

International Study Seminar

Public event without registration
Start: Nov 30, 2023 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Dec 1, 2023 07:00 PM
Speaker: International Study Seminar
Location: 30.11.2023: Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, 00187 Rome, 01.12.2023: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome / and online
Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it

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The seminar will examine the case of the decoration at the Château of Fontainebleau, a central episode in 16th-century artistic culture in Europe, within the framework of the international research project I cantieri in Europa nel Cinquecento: architettura e decorazione, now at its second stage after the session on Rome held in 2019. Seventy years after the exhibition Fontainebleau e la Maniera italiana (Naples 1952), it is time to return to the artistic relations between Italy and France from the point of view of this important matter, examining the transmission of techniques, languages, artists, craftsmen, and its consequences in both directions.

The fresco and stucco decoration of the Château de Fontainebleau is the result of the interventions at different times of Italian artists from various generations and geographical and stylistic traditions : Rosso Fiorentino, Primaticcio, Niccolò dell'Abate and their assistants, moving from a technical and stylistic background rooted in Florence, Rome, Mantua and Genoa, created solutions that responded to the new context and in turn gave rise to new developments in France, and then back with autonomous results in Italy itself.

The connection between drawings and frescoes, the innovative contribution of stucco, the relationship between technical and material options and stylistic resolutions can be usefully reconsidered in the perspective of the artistic workshop, on the background of the great topic of relations between national traditions and the circulation they presuppose.

Admission and how to partecipate in remote:
30.11.2023 Free admission subject to booking: https://www.ticketlandia.com/m/event/fontainebleau-fr
remote: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84722132532?pwd=c1VVSlFRdEVNbnNzcEpDQ1llVk9YQT09

01.12.2023 Free admission within the limit of available places and by remote link: https://vimeo.com/event/3809738

Program

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14.30-19.00 Academy of France - Villa Medici, salle cinéma

14.30 Sam Stourdzé et Francesca Alberti
Greetings

14.45 Letizia Tedeschi, Archivio del Moderno-USI, Silvia Ginzburg, Università degli studi Roma Tre

Introduction to the proceedings

First session

Chair Dominique Cordellier

15.00 Oriane Beaufils, Château de Fontainebleau

Aux origines de Rosso Fiorentino "décorateur”

15.20 Vittoria Romani, University of Padua

Observations on Primaticcio's path

15.40 Laura Stagno, University of Genoa

Perini's Building Site in Palazzo del Principe: Some Observations

16.00 Discussion

Coffee break

Second session

Chair Vitale Zanchettin

17.00 Serena Quagliaroli, University of Turin

Rome-Fontainebleau come and go: stucco in the Urbe building sites (c. 1527-1550)

17.20 Clara Seghesio, University of Turin

The Building Site of Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti. A reinterpretation of Ponce Jacquiot's activity and other proposals

17.40 Guillaume Fonkenell, Château d'Ecouen

La place de l'Italie dans la genèse d'une sculpture " classique " en France à la Renaissance

18.00 Discussion
19.00 Closing Session

Friday, 1 December 2023, 14.30-19.00 Bibliotheca Hertziana

Third session

Chair Vittoria Romani

14.30 Carmelo Occhipinti, "Tor Vergata" University of Rome

Ways of use (and lighting) at Fontainebleau, between "cabinets" and "galeries

14.50 Mathieu Deldicque, Musée Condé, Chantilly

Un château de papier. Les décors bellifontains au prisme du dessin

15.10 Dominique Cordellier, Musée du Louvre

Questions primaticiennes : maitre et collaborateurs sur le chantier de Fontainebleau considérés à partir de leurs dessins

15.30 Discussion

Coffee break

Fourth session

Chair Silvia Ginzburg

16.30 Marcello Calogero, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

Cardinal Giovanni Salviati's patronage: art and politics between Rome and France (1527-1537)

16.50 Giulia Spoltore, Archivio del Moderno-USI

Note on the Landi Chapel: a clue to the circulation of models (and their transposition into different media) between France and Italy

17.10 Giovanni Renzi, State University of Milan

The Fields and Primaticcio: around the year 1557

17.30 Discussion

18.30 Closing remarks

Promoted by:
Acadèmie de France - Villa Médicis; Archivio del Moderno - University of Italian Switzerland;
Bibliotheca Hertziana - MaxPlanck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte; Château de Fontainebleau; Department of Humanistic Studies - University of Roma Tre; Vatican Museums, Vatican City.
In collaboration with the Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin
With the support of the Italo-French University

Scientific and organising committee:
Muriel Barbier, Oriane Beaufils, Anaïs Dorey, Silvia Ginzburg, Serena Quagliaroli, Vittoria Romani, Giulia Spoltore, Letizia Tedeschi

For information:

Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis
Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1 - 00187 Rome
patrizia.celli@villamedici.it

Bibliotheca Hertziana - Villino Stroganoff
via Gregoriana, 22 - 00187 Roma
mara.freibergsimmen@biblhertz.it

Free admission within the limit of available places and by remote link: https://vimeo.com/event/3809738