This communication by Pierluigi Basso, Sophie Raux (Université Lumière Lyon 2), Marion Colas-Blaise and Gian Maria Tore (University of Luxembourg) took place on Sunday June 4, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on the occasion of the Art History Festival at the Château de Fontainebleau.
This highlighted the central notion in painting of « motif » – as a figure or theme which characterizes, for example, a sculpture or a piece of music, but also a common place which circulates, for example, in a tale within a certain tradition. But to what extent is it interesting to talk about the same motive? How is the pattern stable and at the same time variable over time? At the crossroads of history and semiotics, three interventions made it possible to explore the richness and difficulty of such a notion as a key to reading paintings from different periods and styles: Bacchus, Venus and Cupid by Rosso Fiorentino ( Luxembourg), Suicide scene of an anonymous person from the 16th century (Lille), landscapes painted by G. Courbet (Berlin, Lyon, Lille…).
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