Elizaveta Falkova

Elizaveta Falkova (Russia, 1994) is a doctoral student in art history at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Université catholique de Louvain. Co-supervised by Philippe Morel and Ralph Dekoninck, her thesis Entre art et dévotion: les formes et les fonctions de l’encadrement fictif dans les images de la dévotion privée du Quattrocento (Italie centrale et Italie septentrionale) (Between art and devotion: the forms and functions of fictional framing in private devotional images of the Quattrocento (central and northern Italy)) aims to question the role that fictional framing may have played in the articulation of devotional and artistic issues in the Quattrocento. In particular, we will study the polysemy of the fictional frame through its place in intervisual networks, as well as through its role in the devotional and visual experience of the spectator.

 

During her residency at Villa Medici, Elizaveta Falkova will develop her research into the forms and functions of the fictive frame in devotional images of the Quattrocento. The period under study saw the devotional image become a field of artistic experimentation; approaching it through the fictive frame enables us to better define its devotional as well as artistic dimension, and thus to nuance its functional conception. Because of its essential role in the development of new fictive framing devices, as well as the strong presence of the visual and performative tradition of miraculous icons, Rome is an essential site for the study of the dialectical relationship between the sacred and the profane at play within images.