Amélie Bernazzani

Amélie Bernazzani
Period: 2013-2014
Profession: Art historian Amélie Bernazzani is a Doctor of the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR). Her doctoral thesis, defended in 2011 after a course of study at the University of Tours, focused on the theme of Lamentation around the dead Christ in Italian painting of the 15th and 16th centuries. The resulting work will be published in early 2014 in the Renaissance collection of the Presses Universitaires François Rabelais. In addition to filling a historiographical gap, this essay will offer an in-depth reflection on the modalities and functions of the resemblances uniting the Virgin, Magdalene and John in these devotional images. In addition to her doctoral thesis, Amélie Bernazzani has published several articles on religious iconography, and was a lecturer in Modern Art History for six years. For the project at Villa Medici, her new field of investigation will be the illustrations of the French and Italian ” canards sanglants “. These are pamphlets reporting on recent events to the general public. In order to keep abreast of current events, these brochures are printed in a hurry. The images that accompany the texts are therefore very rarely specially produced : the printer is in a hurry and thrifty enough to draw on his stock. Some of the woods used to illustrate religious books are therefore reused to illustrate entirely secular events. It is these shifts from the religious to the secular sphere that interest Amélie Bernazzani. She will attempt to identify and understand the reasons behind the choice of re-used images.