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During the Renaissance, Lucifer and other rebel angels, as well as Phaethon and the Giants of Greek mythology cast down from heaven, increasingly adorned books, palaces and churches. Drawing parallels between works from Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands that have never been compared in art history, Angèle Tence focuses on the connection between fall and punishment. She examines how these “Sturzfiguren” (E. Maurer), shaped by religious tensions in Europe, produced a political or theological discourse nourished the poetic imagination of artists. Moreover, the making of falling figures was a real challenge. How did painters manage to convey the immediacy of the fall, its impact on viewers? The book sheds light on both the iconological and aesthetic implications of the falling body in Early Modern art.
- First cultural history of the fall in European art
- Drawings, engravings, paintings and dome frescoes
- New insight into works by Giulio Romano, Michelangelo, Cornelis van Haarlem and Peter Paul Rubens
Angèle Tence est docteure en histoire de l’art de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, postdoctorante au CNRS/Centre André-Chastel. Elle a bénéficié de bourses de recherche à Rome (bourse Daniel Arasse, Villa Médicis-École française de Rome) et à Munich (bourse DAAD, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte) et a enseigné à l’Université catholique de l’Ouest à Angers, à l’Université Paris I et à l’Université de Fribourg. Elle a également été postdoctorante à l’Université de Caen Normandie dans le cadre du projet ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA (Ancient Greece in Literature and Art). Ses recherches portent sur les iconographies de la chute, les cataclysmes et sur les phénomènes météorologiques dans l’art prémoderne.
Angèle Tence wurde an der Universität Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in Kunstgeschichte promoviert und ist derzeit Post-Doc fellow am CNRS/Centre André-Chastel. Sie erhielt Forschungsstipendien in Rom (Daniel-Arasse-Stipendium, Villa Medici-École Française de Rome) und München (DAAD-Stipendium, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte) und lehrte an der West Catholic University in Angers, an der Universität Paris I sowie an der Universität Fribourg/Schweiz. Zudem war sie im Rahmen des ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA Projektes (Ancient Greece in Literature and Art) als Postdoktorandin an der Universität Caen tätig. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen die Ikonografien des Sündenfalls, von Katastrophen und meteorologischen Phänomenen in der Kunst der Renaissance.
Angèle Tence holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the CNRS/Centre André-Chastel. She has received research fellowships in Rome (Daniel Arasse Fellowship, Villa Medici-École Française de Rome) and Munich (DAAD Fellowship, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), and has taught at the West Catholic University in Angers, at Paris I University, and at the University of Fribourg. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Caen Normandy as part of the ERC Advanced Grant project AGRELITA (Ancient Greece in Literature and Art). Her research fields include iconographies of the fall, cataclysms and meteorological phenomena in Renaissance art.