Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The Rise of Genre Painting and the Beginnings of Still Life in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries: Exchanges between Italy and the Northern Countries
This course will be jointly taught by Professor Dominique Allart and Professor Elena Fumagalli (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia), FNRS visiting professor at the University of Liège during the second semester of the 2025-26 academic year.
Course program
Introduction - La diversification des genres picturaux - Les formes de peintures dites « mineures » et leur essor au XVIe et au XVIIe siècles - Prémices dans les arts de la fin du Moyen Age.
La peinture de genre aux Pays-Bas, de Quentin Metsys à Jacob Jordaens : aperçu global.
Pieter Bruegel l'Ancien et les paysans comme acteurs dans la peinture - Pieter Aertsen, Joachim Bueckelaer et les scènes de marché et de cuisine.
Le caravagisme d'Utrecht - Beuveries et débauche, entre leçons de morale et satires, autour d'Adriaen Brouwer, David Teniers, Jan Steen - Les fijnschilders de Leyde.
Bouquets et tables garnies : vanitas et ostentation dans les natures mortes flamandes et hollandaises.
Venise au carrefour entre Nord et Sud : l'atelier Bassano. Jacopo et ses fils Francesco et Leandro. L'invention de nouveaux sujets religieux, entre scènes de genre et natures mortes.
A Crémone, le collectionnisme d'œuvres de Joachim Bueckelaer et les « peintures ridicules » de Vincenzo Campi, entre héritage léonardesque et influences flamandes.
La naissance de la nature morte à Milan - Arcimboldo, Ambrogio Figino, Fede Galizia - Jan Brueghel de Velours, peintre de Frédéric Borromée : l'invention de la guirlande de fleurs.
Peinture de genre à Bologne à la fin du XVIe siècle : les aliments dans les tableaux de Bartolomeo Passarotti - les scène de vie quotidienne du jeune Annibale Carrache et les suggestions littéraires (littérature populaires, proverbes...).
Annibale Carracci et les Arti di Bologna : la tradition de représenter les différents métiers à travers dessins et gravures.
Rome 1600-1650 : origine et développement de la nature morte (l'atelier du Maître d'Hartford) et de la scène de vie quotidienne (les Bamboccianti).
This program is supplemented by a study day (May 6, 2026) and a lecture by Professor EF (see below).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course aims to:
- deepen students' knowledge of early modern art in Western Europe;
- develop their critical thinking skills regarding the sources and methods of art history;
- train them in the analysis of visual sources from a historical perspective.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
If you are an Erasmus student, please contact Prof. D. Allart (D.Allart@uliege.be)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The classes, led by Prof. Dominique Allart and Prof. Elena Fumagalli, will be followed by exchanges and discussions.
Students will be expected to complete readings related to the main themes in order to contribute to these debates; some of these readings will also require a written critical report as part of the assessment.
An international study day (Market and Kitchen Scenes in Painting Between the Low Countries and Italy in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries, Liège University, Wednesday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to around 5 p.m.) will be an integral part of the course, as will a public lecture by Professor Elena Fumagalli (Le jardin du Grand-Duc. La nature morte dans les collections des Médicis, date to be confirmed). Attendance at both the study day and the lecture is mandatory.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
See above.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
A bibliography and useful documentation will be given to students.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Further information:
The evaluation conducted by Prof. Dominique Allart will be based on the written reading reports (submission deadline: no later than May 11) and an oral exam during the session
Participation in class discussions will also be taken into account.
The oral exam will cover the course content, the study day on May 7, Prof. Elena Fumagalli's lecture, as well as the assigned readings.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Students will receive information and useful documents for this course electronically.
Tenured professor
Dominique ALLART
Département des Sciences historiques
Quai Roosevelt 1 b à B-4000 Liege
Phone : 04 366 56 15
E-mail : D.Allart@uliege.be