Modelo, identidad y la Academia de Francia en Roma: Nicolas Vleughels y su relación con los artistas portugueses y españoles.
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Nicolas Vleughels was a French painter, best known for his pivotal role as director of the Académie de France in Rome (1725- 1737). His particular choices as head of that institution, and his way of encouraging his pensionnaires had a tremendous impact on the production of those young artists. However that impact is usually measured within the frame of French and Roman art but not in a broader perspective more in consonance with the international status of the institution. Through the analysis of the correspondence between Vleughels and the Public Works Minister in Paris, this article addresses the relationship of that charismatic man with the two Iberian crowns. On one hand, the article deals with the rather unknown and short-lived Portuguese Academy in Rome, whose connexion with the French Institution was more about rivalry and strategic positioning than a proper institutional relationship. On the other hand, the article also tackles the turbulent relationship between Vleughels and the Spanish pensionnaires, which almost resulted in a diplomatic crisis, even if the Spaniards were supposed to enjoy a particular status at the French Academy thanks to the political alliances between the Spanish and French monarchs.
Source: Arte individuo y sociedad
DOI: 10.5209/aris.57966
Author: Pilar Diez del Corral-Corredoira
Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W2890693244