Audrey Nassieu Maupas

Audrey Nassieu Maupas is a lecturer at the École pratique des Hautes études in Paris. Her research focuses on the figurative arts of the Renaissance, in particular artistic techniques and know-how, and the circulation of artists. She directed the Pictor program, financed by the City of Paris and supported by the École française de Rome (2016-2022), on the painter’s craft in Europe, which resulted in the publication of a synthesis book in 2023. She has contributed to highlighting the figures of artists such as Baptiste Pellerin, Jean Cousin and Marin Le Bourgeois, and is currently preparing a study on painters’ workshops in Paris in the XVI² century.

His residency project focuses on French artists in Rome around 1520, with Guillaume de Marcillat at the center. A painter and glassmaker, he is best known as Vasari’s master, but documents concerning him, notably two autograph registers, reveal the names of painters, miniaturists, glassmakers and other artists and craftsmen, most of them of French origin. The aim is to shed light on Marcillat’s milieu, which was often populated by compatriots, and to renew our thinking on the circulation of artists from France to Italy at a time when the “voyage d’Italie”, as a compulsory part of training, had not yet become the norm.