Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen

Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen is Professor of Art History at the École Normale Supérieure. She has published textbooks(Lire la peinture, Larousse; Histoire de l’art pour tous, Hazan), monographs(Rubens, Hazan) and thematic works (from L’invention du corps, Flammarion, 1998, to L’argent dans la peinture, Citadelles et Mazenod, 2019). A specialist in the Renaissance, she likes to work on the long term, and in particular on today’s art. She is the author of a novel, L’Étoile brisée (Gallimard, 2021, reprinted in Folio in 2023).

 

The research stay at the Académie de France in Rome will be devoted to Renaissance “cachet” paintings. Double-sided paintings, and especially those with a “cover” (coperta). This was done in the context of portraiture (allegory), for reasons of moral occultation (eroticism), and probably also with playful intentions, as the viewer was led to wonder what was painted on the other side of the picture or underneath the cover. A precise corpus of paintings, including Northern artists such as Dürer or those influenced by the North such as Jacopo dei Barbari, and above all Italians, mainly Giorgione and Lorenzo Lotto, but also Raphael, Titian and Leonardo da Vinci, will be examined during this month-long residency. The research is part of the preparation of an essay, Images dangereuses (working title), to be published by Gallimard (collections Art et artistes) in late 2023, which examines the conditions of visibility of works of art, over the long term and particularly at the beginning of the modern era.