Vers l an 1600, la peinture s obscurcit. Caravage, mais aussi son confrere allemand Adam Elsheimer, inventent a Rome un nouveau regime pictural, ou le noir sans nuances limite le champ du visible, et se substitue a la richesse visuelle spectaculaire des images de la Renaissance. Des strategies artistiques astucieuses mettent en question la transparence de la fameuse fenetre, par laquelle Alberti voulait que l on regarde la peinture.
Cette revolution artistique, souvent expliquee comme l emergence d un nouveau realisme ou encore a travers les doctrines de la Contre-reforme, est ici etudiee...

The Annunciation: a specific event recounted in the Bible and often represented in artworks, but also the prototype of many other announcements throughout the history of Western culture. This volume proposes new readings of pictorial Annunciations from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period - treating aspects such as witnesses, inscriptions and architecture - as well as analyses of some visual echoes, reenactments of the announcement to Mary in sacred and profane contexts up to the twenty-first century. Among the latter are included Venetian decoration glorifying the state, a...