Marc Bayard

Marc Bayard
Period: 2004-2004
Profession: Art historian 2004 – Pensionnaire art historian. 2004-2010 – Académie de France à Rome-Villa Médicis: Chargé de mission for art history. 2011 – Cabinet of the Minister of Culture and Communication Mr. Frédéric Mitterrand: Chargé de mission for the Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art de Fontainebleau, the Discourses and the Chastel Centenary. Since end 2011 – Mobilier national: Advisor for cultural and scientific development Marc Bayard is Advisor for cultural and scientific development at Mobilier national. An art historian and critic, he has published numerous works and curated several exhibitions. He is also the creator of Slow Made. After a degree in Political Science (Montpellier I) and Public Law (Paris II – Panthéon-Assas), Marc Bayard pursued his studies with a PhD in Art History from E.H.E.S.S. with Prof. Yves Hersant (2003), alongside teaching at the universities of Evry and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2011, he gave seminars at E.H.E.S.S. on his research topic. His thesis, published in 2010, focused on the iconography and aesthetics of theatrical décor in the 17th century. It was made possible thanks to grants from the École française de Rome and the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris. Since then, his research has focused on spatiality and theatricality in Italian and French painting (15th-17th centuries), a project for which he received a Lavoisier grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to travel to Venice. He became a resident at Villa Medici to pursue this research (2004), and has published numerous articles on both subjects. He was Chargé de mission for art history at the Académie de France in Rome from 2004 to 2010, where he was responsible for the preservation and study of heritage, both through the conservation of movable property (tapestries, paintings, furniture, plasterwork, archives), and by encouraging the historical study of the Villa Medici and the Académie de France in Rome. In this context, he has guided Villa Medici’s scientific choices in art history and heritage policy. He has organized numerous symposia on artistic exchanges between France, Italy and Europe, from the Renaissance to the present day, and has actively contributed to the restoration of antique furniture, plaster sculptures, tapestries and paintings. He is also committed to the preservation and communication of historical archives. He also pursued the scientific study of the objects presented in the Gypsothèque, a museum created by director Frédéric Mitterrand. He was editorial coordinator for the publication of volumes IV and V on the history of the Villa Medici (dir. André Chastel), as well as for the correspondence of the Horace Vernet directorate. He has commissioned several research projects on the institution’s heritage and history, some of which have been published in the journal Studiolo. He directed this magazine as editor-in-chief, and was also director of the Villa Medici art history collection (10 titles). In this context, he has authored or co-authored several books: L’histoire de l’art et le comparatisme. Les horizons du détour (ed.) 2007; ¿ Renaissance en France, renaissance française? with Henri Zerner (ed.), 2009; Rome-Paris, 1640. Transferts culturels et renaissance d’un center artistique (ed.), 2010; Feinte baroque. Iconographie et esthétique de la variété au XVIIe siècle, 2010; Poussin et la construction de l’Antique with Elena Fumagalli (ed.), 2011. Marc Bayard has also organized exhibitions (Villa aperta – 2009; Kelly/Ingres – 2010) and curated Granet. Rome et Paris, la nature romantique (2009), with Anna Ottani Cavina and Bernard Terlay; Poussin et Moïse. Du dessin à la tapisserie (2011), with Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée (exhibition also in Paris in 2012) Tesori di Luigi XIV. Arazzi di Raffaello, Vouet, Rubens e Le Brun, Rome, Villa Torlonia (2012) At Mobilier national, in close collaboration with the General Administrator, Mr. Bernard Schotter, he is in charge of the establishment’s cultural programming (educational and general public activities) and the development of research programs in association with university centers, museums and research institutions in art history and the decorative arts. Within the institution, he has set up educational workshops for children, developed the “Rencontres des Gobelins” (3 cycles of scientific meetings) and the “Cartes blanche” with contemporary artists (Vincent Bioulès, Pierre Buraglio, Yan Pei Ming, Eva Jospin). He is also in charge of international exhibition development. With the Mobilier National and the Institut National des Métiers d’Arts, he was the creator of the Slow Made program for art crafts. Marc Bayard writes a blog for Fait-religieux.com, and has published a book with Valère Novarina (Sacri Monti. Incandescence baroque en Italie de Nord, Jean Paul Combet éditions, 2012). He is also director of the Protea collection at the “L’Erma di Bretschneider” publishing house (Rome), a member of the editorial board of the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles and a member of the editorial board of Studiolo magazine. Marc Bayard has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2011).