Il cantiere nel Cinquecento: architettura e decorazione. Fontainebleau.

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 participate online:
30.11.2023 Free admission, reservation required: https://www.ticketlandia.com/m/event/fontainebleau-fr
Link to attend online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84722132532?pwd=c1VVSlFRdEVNbnNzcEpDQ1llVk9YQT09

01.12.2023 Free admission subject to availability and link: https://vimeo.com/event/3809738

Program

Thursday 30 November 2023
Accademia di Francia – Villa Medici, Grand Salon

14.30
Sam Stourdzé and Francesca Alberti, Villa Medici
Welcome
14:45 Letizia Tedeschi, Archivio del Moderno-USI, Silvia Ginzburg, Università degli studi Roma Tre
Introduction

15.00 – 16.00: First session
Chair Dominique Cordellier

15.00
Oriane Beaufils, Château de Fontainebleau
Aux origines de Rosso Fiorentino “décorateur”
15.20
Vittoria Romani, Università degli Studi di Padova
Osservazioni sul percorso di Primaticcio
15.40
Laura Stagno, Università degli Studi di Genova
Il cantiere periniano di Palazzo del Principe: alcune osservazioni

16.00: Discussion
Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00: Second session
Chair Vitale Zanchettin

17.00
Serena Quagliaroli, Università degli Studi di Torino
Roma-Fontainebleau andate e ritorni: lo stucco nei cantieri dell’Urbe (1527-1550 ca.)
17.20
Clara Seghesio, Università degli Studi di Torino
Il cantiere di Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti. Una rilettura dell’attività di Ponce Jacquiot e altre proposte
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

Friday, 1 December 2023
Bibliotheca Hertziana

14.30 – 15.30: Third session
Chair Vittoria Romani

14.30
Carmelo Occhipinti, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Modi di fruizione (e di illuminazione) a Fontainebleau, tra “cabinets” e “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, Paris
Questions primaticiennes : maitre et collaborateurs sur le chantier de Fontainebleau considérés à partir de leurs dessins

15.30: Discussion
Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30: Fourth session
Chair Silvia Ginzburg

16.30
Marcello Calogero, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
La committenza del cardinale Giovanni Salviati: arte e politica tra Roma e la Francia (1527-1537)
16.50
Giulia Spoltore, Archivio del Moderno-USI
Nota a margine della cappella Landi: un indizio per la circolazione di modelli (e la trasposizione in diversi media) tra Francia e Italia
17.10
Giovanni Renzi, Università degli studi di Milano statale
I Campi e Primaticcio: intorno all’anno 1557
17.30: Discussion