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


Preliminary Programme

Thursday Afternoon || Friday Morning || Friday Afternoon || Saturday Morning || Saturday Afternoon



Please Note:

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


For more information about this conference, please contact
Yannick Portebois or Victor Thiessen


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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