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• 06 nov 2013

  07 nov 2013

  08 nov 2013

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Courts and Courtly Cultures in Early Modern Italy and Europe

  Models and Languages

  The conference will focus on the topic of court culture in Lombardy and North Italy, within the conceptual framework of the SNF Sinergia project: Constructing identity: visual, spatial, and literary cultures in Lombardy, 14^th to 16^th centuries. This interdisciplinary project, which includes five research unities in the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, and EPFL at Lausanne, works on Visconti and Sforza ages, when Lombardy, one of the most important European regions, established itself as a distinct political and cultural entity. It has been an exemplary case of the construction of a cultural identity, whose repercussions still resonate in present-day Italy. As a part of a potent political project, it has been sustained by complex mechanisms of self-representation and the imposition of a prestige taste. The conference will conclude the research of the Sinergia project discussing its results in a wider historical, literary, architectural and artistic context and verifying its methodological approaches at the light of multiple points of view.

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• 22 fév 2013

  23 fév 2013

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Narration and strategies of illustration

  Novels of chivalry and codex in North Italy (14th-16th centuries)

  Le colloque « Narration et stratégies de l'illustration. Codex et romans chevaleresques dans l'Italie du Nord (XIVe-XVIe siècle) » s’insère dans le cadre du projet de recherche Sinergia Constructing Identity: Visual, Spatial, and Literary Cultures in Lombardy, financé par le Fonds national Suisse. En adoptant une pluralité de perspectives, ce colloque vise à interroger les modalités d’interaction entre les contenus narratifs et les cycles d’illustrations dans des manuscrits et imprimés chevaleresques d’origine nord-italienne. L’objectif est également d’éclairer les rapports que ces derniers entretiennent avec d’autres témoignages de la culture chevaleresque issus du même milieu.

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