Cécile BEUZELIN

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Cécile Beuzelin is an Associate Professor in history of modern art at the University of Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, specialising in Italian Renaissance painting (15th-16th centuries). She is the author of several books and articles on Italian Mannerism (L’Anticamera Benintendi, Olschki, 2015) et le peintre Jacopo Pontormo (monographie à paraître), le double portrait d’amitié et la performativité de l’image religieuse.

Research subject areas :

• Italian mannerism
• Contributions, links, exchanges between ephemeral and perennial arts
• Cultural networks and artistic movements between Italy and northern Europe
• The performativity of the religious image 
• Portraiture and affects in the Renaissance

Academic and administrative endeavours :

• Organisation du colloque international « Animal et portrait à la Renaissance ; ‘De bestiae dignitate’, musée national de la Renaissance d’Ecouen and musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (16–17 May 2022).
• Preparation of a monograph on the painter Jacopo Pontormo (Paris, Cohen & Cohen).