Cécile Beuzelin

Cécile Beuzelin
Period: 2008-2009
Profession: Art historian Cécile Beuzelin was born on September 26, 1979 in Pointe-à-Pitre. Her early research focused on Italian Renaissance painting, in particular the Mannerist period and the Florentine painter Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1557). In 2001, she defended her Master’s thesis at the Université François Rabelais de Tours and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours (C.E.S.R.), entitled:
Le Capriccio chez Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1557). In 2002, she obtained her D.E.A. in Renaissance Civilization, focusing on the place of the ephemeral arts in Florentine Mannerist painting:
L’éphémère et le permanent : apports, liens, passages dans la peinture florentine du début du XVI e siècle . At the end of 2007, Cécile Beuzelin defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Tours and the C.E.S.R., under the supervision of Professor Maurice Brock, entitled
Des décors de fêtes à la fondation de l’ Accademia Fiorentina
: la culture des peintres florentins dans la première moitié du XVI e siècle .
To complete her thesis, she was awarded a 3-year research grant from the Région Centre, a Bilateral Study and Research Grant (France/Italy) and an Art History research assignment from the École française de Rome. In 2008, she was accepted for 18 months as an Art History resident at the Académie de France in Rome-Villa Medici. In her Roman project, Cécile Beuzelin aims to analyze artistic exchanges between Florence and Rome in the early 16th century (1494-1527). The aim is to better understand the contribution of Roman painting to Florentine painting, and to reconsider “Mannerism” as an art of reference. Cécile Beuzelin’s approach is based on the study of the concrete circulation of artists and works between the two cities, and on the study of the art market. In particular, she will study the role of the Florentine commercial network in Rome in the early 16th century, Roman social and cultural networks, and “itinerant” artists and their works between Rome and Florence.