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Financement de l’UE (298 749 €) : Conçu par la nature ? Images religieuses produites par les minéraux, les plantes et les animaux dans la science et la dévotion occidentales (14e-17e siècle) Hor18/04/2024 Programme de recherche et d'innovation de l'UE « Horizon »

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Conçu par la nature ? Images religieuses produites par les minéraux, les plantes et les animaux dans la science et la dévotion occidentales (14e-17e siècle)

My project spotlights a category of religious images that has hitherto escaped scholarly investigation: sacred representations that were believed to be a product of nature. Objects of this kindsuch as marble slabs whose veining suggested a silhouette of the Virgin, or plants whose shape recalled that of a crucifixgarnered considerable attention in late medieval and early modern Christian culture. Regarded both as divine prodigies to be revered and as natural wonders to be investigated, they were described and reproduced in travel accounts, religious writings, and natural history treatises. Combining sources and methods from art history, religious studies, and the history of science, my research will chart the world-wide geography of these objects, investigate their materiality, and explore their embedding in late medieval and early modern Christian culture. In doing so, it will deepen our understanding of the perception of natural environments and materials in Western culture, and of the evolution of historical ideas concerning the agencies of nature, God and man in the shaping of the physical world. Two internationally recognized research teams, specializing in the geography and materiality of sacred art (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), and in the relationship of visuality and nature (KU Leuven, Belgium), will host the project during the outgoing and the return phase of a 3-year Global Fellowship. An additional secondment to UC Davis, California, will enable me to develop a crucial stage of my research in collaboration with historians of science. The outputs of the projectincluding webinars, an online exhibition, the first monograph on this subject, and a series of lessons taught at KU Leuvenwill counter the divide between STEM fields and humanities by involving side by side scientists and historians; will strengthen the engagement of art history in ecocriticism; and will promote education on the connection between art and the environment.


The Regents of the University of California (University of California, Davis) ?
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 298 749 €

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101146144

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