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De l’harmonie au sublime : évolution de l’esthétique du paysage by Mariella COLIN – Château de Bénouville
From harmony to the sublime: the evolution of landscape aesthetics
At each stage in history, a multitude of logics determine the manner in which we appreciate landscape, whilst aesthetic codes transform it into an object of admiration or aversion. This conference will demonstrate how landscape has been perceived and represented in Europe over two key periods, by highlighting the pictorial manner in which landscapes were represented during the Renaissance period (15th – 16th centuries), governed by the aesthetics of harmony, and the pictorial manner of the Romantic period (late 18th century – first half of the 19th century), marked by the aesthetics of the sublime and by immoderation. This will offer a comparative review of highly contrasting images of what we come to contemplate and appreciate in representations of nature.
Mariella Colin
Mariella Colin is professor emeritus at Caen University and a specialist in Italian literature and culture. She has directed research teams and initiated, within this same university, the Master’s Degree in Littératures, Imaginaires, Sociétés (Literature, Imagination, Societies) for which she has given lectures on landscape and has coordinated a research seminar on the representations of landscape in painting and literature.
Further reading :
Le paysage dans la littérature italienne, Presses universitaires de Dijon, 2006