The Smell of Paint: Towards an Olfactory History of 19th-Century Painting
Research Seminar
- Online event via Zoom and on site (previous registration)
- Datum: 08.03.2022
- Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 13:00
- Vortragende: Érika Wicky
- Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
Later in the middle of
the 19th century, the smell of paint, and more precisely those
of turpentine, was still a concern because of the importance given to the links
between the nerves and the sense of smell in the medical discourse of
the time: many painters had to give up their vocation due to migraines, and
women were banned from practicing oil painting. Combining the history of
art and the history of medicine, this research seminar will explore the major
role of an invisible protagonist in the history of painting:
the smell of colors.
Érika Wicky holds a PhD
in art history (Université de Montréal, 2011). Her dissertation has been
published under the title Les paradoxes du détail : voir, savoir,
représenter à l’ère de la photographie (Presses universitaires de
Rennes, 2015). Since 2018, she has devoted her research to the history of
olfactory culture (18th-20th century) and has co-edited several collections of
essays on the topic such as Mediality of Smells (Peter Lang,
2021). She is currently a visiting fellow at the European University Institute
(Florence).
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