Notice of Competition for 2016 Fellowships
Ornamentation and decoration. The grammar of the orders, the rhetoric of opulence, the appeal to the eye at European Courts (1680-1750)
The Fellowship Program on the Age and the Culture of Baroque aims to promote innovative research in this area of humanities and to support career opportunities for young scholars in academic and cultural institutions. The theme of research proposals for the 2016 competition is:
Ornamentation and decoration. The grammar of the orders, the rhetoric of opulence, the appeal to the eye at European Courts (1680-1750)
Between the late 17th century and the first half of the 18th century, ornamentation and decoration become central at the Courts across Europe.
The peculiar formulations of the various European Courts, that reflect individual artistic expressions and diversified trends in taste, pursue the definition of a new rhetoric: the association, implementation, and reinvention of the orders; the affirmation or complete redefinition of artistic hierarchies; a new balance between internal and external spaces; new and differentiated approaches to the memories of the past.
The resulting subjects and shapes become characteristic in their own right and serve as models of variations on set themes that, together, make up whole repertoires in architecture, painting and sculpture as well as in the art of jewelry and in furniture design for the Court’s spaces.
The centrality of the ornament takes diff erent forms in the culture of the Baroque period, and sweeps across history, literature, philosophy, and music.
Applicants are invited to submit research proposals and original projects that, in the framework of the theme and timeframe presented here, or signifi cant segments thereof, provide a comparative synchronic or diachronic analysis of two or more geographical centers or of limited territories.
Application deadline 24 July 2016, 24:00 (CEST) – CLOSED
Each Fellowship will last for one year, starting 1st January 2017 and ending 31st December 2017 – Research activity concluded
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