Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies
and the
Centre d’études du 19e siècle français / Centre for 19th Century French Studies
Present:
The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century / Le
19e siècle renaissant
University of Toronto
4-6 October 2001
Thursday Afternoon || Friday Morning
|| Friday Afternoon || Saturday Morning ||
Saturday Afternoon
All session will be held in the Old
Victoria building, Victoria College, 91 Charles St.
West
Thursday, 4 October
3:00: Registration
4:30 Session 1: Conceptualizing the Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century
François Rigolot (Prof., French, Princeton University)
"Sainte-Beuve's
Invention of the French Renaissance."
Edouard Papet (Conservateur, Musée d'Orsay, Paris) "S'émanciper
de l'Antique: le mouvement «néo-florentin» et la sculpture
française de la deuxième moitié du XIXème siècle."
Richard Landon (Director, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University
of Toronto) “The
Library of Thomas Grenville: A Victorian Collects the Renaissance.”
6:30 Reception
Friday, 5 October
9:00 Session 2: Perceived Parallels: Modern Artists and the French Nineteenth-Century Historiography of the Renaissance
James E. Housefield (Prof., Art & Design, Southwest
Texas State University) "The
Notion of the Notebook: The Renaissance Mind as Model for the Modern Artist."
Victoria C. Gardner Coates (Prof., Dept. of Art History, Washington College)
"A Troubled
Heritage: Cellini's Vita in Nineteenth-Century France."
Maria E. Di Pasquale (Prof. Dept of University Extension, University
of Texas at Austin) "The
Analogous Past: The Model of the Early Renaissance for Maurice Denis's Modern
Religious Art."
James B. Hargrove (Grad., Art History, University of Pennsylvania) "Renaissance
Paradigm/Modernist Enterprise and the Mural Painting of Albert Besnard."
10:30 Coffee break / Pause café
11:00 Session 3: Recovering the Architectural Past
D. Medina Lasansky (Prof., History of Architecture and
Urbanism, Cornell University) "The
British Fight to Save Renaissance Florence at the End of the Nineteenth Century."
Ineke Pey (Prof., Art Historical Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
"The Neo-Renaissance
Mansions in the Urban Expansion of the former Dutch Fortress Cities (ca. 1875-1900)."
Rosanna Pavoni (Dir., Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milano, Italy) "The
Barons Bagatti Valsecchi Remodel their Ancestral Home."
Jean-Michel Leniaud (Prof., Architecture, Sorbonne, Paris) "Pourquoi
le style Henri II?"
12:30 Lunch / Déjeuner
2:00 Session 4: Rediscovering Renaissance Art
James R. Banker (Prof., History, North Carolina State University,
NC) "The
Revival of Interest in the Art of Piero della Francesca in Western Europe in
the Nineteenth Century."
Béatrice Laurent (Prof., Dept. of English, Université d'Avignon,
France) "A
la recherche des Primitifs: le pelerinage pr/raphaelite d’octobre 1849."
Laura Willett (Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies,
Victoria University, Toronto) "The
Romantic Renaissance in Montaigne's Tower."
J. David Farmer (Dir., Dahesh Museum, New York) "The
`Northern Renaissance' in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp."
3:30 Coffee break / Pause café
4:00 Session 5: The Anti-Renaissance
Laura Fasick (Prof., English, Moorhead State University,
MN) "Fear
of Greatness: Michelangelo, the Victorians, and the Moral Implications of Art."
Glenn F. Benge (Prof., Art History, Temple University, Philadelphia,
PA) "Renaissance
Reflections in Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture."
Rob Breton (Grad., English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
"Preventing
Traditions: Ruskin, Work, and `Evil Spirit' of the Renaissance."
Saturday, 6 October
9:00 Session 6a: Interpreting the Renaissance
Martin A. Ruehl (Research Fellow, History, Cambridge University,
UK) "Before
Burckhardt: German Debates about the Renaissance, 1780-1860."
Alan Kahan (Prof., History, Florida International University, FL) "Burckhardt
and Sismondi: Two Liberals, Two Italian Renaissances."
Christine Bolus-Reichert (Prof., English, University of Toronto) "Mixed
Situations: Paterian Eclecticism and the Idea of the Renaissance."
9:00 Session 6b: The Poet's Perspective
Robert Melançon (Prof., French, Université
de Montreal) "Du
Bellay, de Sainte-Beuve à Petit de Julleville."
Sandra Parmegiani (Grad., Italian, University of Toronto) "Ugo
Foscolo and the Renaissance: A Modern Perspective."
Hal and Luci Fortunato De Lisle (Prof., English/History, Bridgewater
State College, MA) "Locus
amoenus: The Garden in Coleridge and Boccaccio."
10:30 Coffee break / Pause café
11:00 Session 7a: Re-Using French History
François-Emmanuël Boucher (Grad., French, McGill
University) "Le
début de la fin: le rôle de la Renaissance dans l'historiographie
de la première moitié du XIXème siècle."
Michelle Troizier-Cheyne (Grad., French, Rutgers University, NJ) "Neutralizing
the Other: Nineteenth-Century French Accounts of the Saint Barthélemy."
Paule Petitier (Prof., Université François Rabelais, Tours,
France) "Michelet
et la mélancolie de la Renaissance."
11:00 Session 7b: The Novelist's Perspective
Michel Brix (Maître de Conférences, Université
de Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium) "Balzac
et l'héritage de Rabelais."
Kristen Laakso Didier (Grad., French, Univ. of Southern California) "Marguerite
de Valois and La Reine Margot."
Lucia Manea (Grad., French, Université Laval) "Le
pèlerinage de saint Flaubert aux pays de Bosch et de Bruegel."
12:30 Lunch / Déjeuner
2:00 Session 8a: Recovering the Renaissance Book
April Oettinger (Prof., Art History, University of Delaware)
"William
Morris's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili."
Diana Cooper-Richet (Centre d'histoire culturelle des sociétés
contemporaines, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) "La
redécouverte des éditions aldines du XIXème siècle:
Antoine Augustin Renouard, bibliophile et collectionnneur."
Dylan Reid (Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria
University) "Local
Printing, Local Pride: Rouen's Nineteenth-Century Bibliophiles and the Renaissance
Printing Industry."
Marie Korey (Chief Librarian, Massey College, University of Toronto)
“Perfecting
the Historical Record: the Antiquarian Interests of Henry Shaw.”
2:00 Session 8b: Theoretical Approaches to Renaissance Literature
Christopher Warley (Prof., English, Oakland University)
"Sidney
Lee and the Institutionalization of the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence."
Elaine Pigeon (Grad., English, Université de Montréal)
"John Addington
Symonds's Queer Reading of Shakespeare."
Janine Gallant (Prof., French, Université de Moncton) "Les
peintres de la Renaissance italienne au coeur de l'esthétique de Stendhal."
Michel Fournier (Grad., French, University of Toronto) "De
la «préhistoire» du roman: la réception du roman baroque
dans le discours critique de la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle
en France."
3:30 Coffee Break / Pause café
4:00 Session 9a: The Renaissance on Stage
Mark Everist (Prof., Music, University of Southampton,
UK), Jeanice Brooks (Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK)
"Giacomo
Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots: Staging the History of the French Renaissance."
Irene Morra (Grad., English, University of Toronto) "Tutto
è gioia, tutto è festa: Singing the Renaissance from Benvenuto
Cellini to Falstaff."
Jean-Claude Yon (Maître de Conférences, History, Université
de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) "La
Renaissance vue par un librettiste: le cas d'Eugène Scribe."
Nadine D. Pederson (Grad., Theatre, City University of New York, NY)
"Historiography
of French Renaissance Theatre in the Nineteenth Century."
4:00 Session 9b: The Renaissance in the Minor Arts
Martha A. McCrory (Prof., Jewelry Design, Fashion Institute
of Technology, New York) "Neo-Renaissance
Jewelry: Its Role in the Revivalist Styles of the Nineteenth Century.".
Mariel O'Neill-Karch (Prof., French, University of Toronto) "Jean-Alexis
Rouchon (1794-1878) et la (Re)naissance de l'affiche publicitaire."
Ségolène Le Men (Prof., Art History, Université
de Paris X-Nanterre) "Daumier:
caricature et Renaissance."
6:00 Reception
7:00 Banquet
Organizing committee:
Prof. Benoît Bolduc Prof.
Paul Perron
French, Univ. of Toronto French, Univ. of Toronto
Prof. William R. Bowen
Music, Univ. of Toronto
Director, CRRS
Prof. Konrad Eisenbichler
Prof. Yannick Portebois
Italian, Univ. of Toronto
French, Univ. of Toronto
Prof. John McClelland
Dr. Victor Thiessen
French, Univ. of Toronto
Curator, CRRS
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