Philomène Renard

Philomène Renard (1998) has been a contract doctoral student at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes since 2023. Her thesis project “Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1516) et son atelier: recherches sur l’organisation du travail, la technique et la matérialité” (Giovanni Bellini and his workshop: research into the organization of work, technique and materiality) is being carried out in cotutelle with Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She is involved in the “L’Arte per le Arti: la committenza delle corporazioni veneziane” project at the Centro Studi Rinascimento Veneziano, and has worked at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in the digital research department on the “La fabrique matérielle du visuel: transferts des matériaux et des techniques des panneaux peints en Méditerranée XIIIe-XVIe” project.

 

In residence at Villa Medici, Philomène Renard will focus on the Bellinian corpus preserved in central Italy, between the museum and religious institutions of Rome and Florence. The workshop is well known for the serial aspect of its painted panel production, but the material and social implications of this process remain largely unknown. The aim is therefore to use laboratory analysis of the panels, direct observation of the works and consultation of archives to identify the production stages and material particularities of these paintings, compared with other works by the workshop.