Jeanne Dorn

Jeanne Dorn is a doctoral student at the University of Paris Nanterre, where she is preparing a thesis on the poet Yves Bonnefoy’s thinking on art. She is the author of Poésie et bonté. Baudelaire avec Rousseau, published in 2022 by Hermann.

 

Genesis and reception of Rome, 1630 in European thought of the second twentieth century Jeanne Dorm’s research as part of her residency at Villa Medici is historiographical, and concerns Yves Bonnefoy’s Rome, 1630: L’horizon du premier baroque, published in 1970 jointly by Editions Flammarion in France and Istituto editoriale italiano in Milan. Because of the novelty of its approach and the results of its analyses, Rome, 1630 had an immediate and lasting impact on the art historian community, particularly on the rediscovery of the Baroque in the 20th century. The aim is to uncover the visual and intellectual conditions of the work’s emergence in the 1950s-1970s, to reconstruct the social and artistic milieu Bonnefoy frequented during his travels in the Italian capital, and finally to compare the specificity of his thinking on the Baroque – his mode of exposition, his methods, the acquisitions of his criticism and the theses he affirms – with that of other historians and critics.