As part of the course series on architecture, interior decoration and decorative arts from the 15th to the 18th century, Bachelor 1 Art Expertise and Art Trade students will take part in two study days on the Middle Ages on June 21 and 22.
On Wednesday, May 31, the students addressed this period as part of the course Learn, Analyze, Comment: they were asked to study a masterpiece: The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry.
On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, the students and their professor David Brouzet will set up a medieval table and install a few objects in the IESA arts&culture display case on the first floor of rue Froment as part of a course on the table arts in the Middle Ages. This exhibition is open to the public.
For their study day on Wednesday, June 21, the students will go in the morning to the Louvre Museum, in the Department of Decorative Arts, to study the following subject: “Ivory Carving and Goldsmithing in the Romanesque Period,” taught by their lead professor David Brouzet
In the afternoon, they will study “The Royal Castle of Vincennes” with Ludovic Galfo, an art historian specializing in medieval architecture.
On Thursday, June 22, the day will begin at the Musée national du Moyen Âge et des Thermes de Cluny with a tour devoted to “The Place of Heraldry in Medieval Art” led by Elizabeth Foubert, RMN lecturer and heraldry specialist. This second study day will continue with a guided lecture visit led by their professor David Brouzet at the Louvre Museum, in the Department of Decorative Arts, on the following theme: “Ivory Carving and Goldsmithing in the Gothic Period.” It will end with a visit to the Tour Jean-sans-Peur, led by Rémi Rivière, its director, and will address the following questions: how do you manage a medieval monument in 21st-century Paris? Which audiences? What programming?