SOLIDARITY
WITH UKRAINE

Guest country:
Portugal

Création graphique : Atelier 25, d’après Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, La dame au lapin, vers 1508.

Theme:animals

Manifestation organisée dans le cadre de la Saison France-Portugal 2022

Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, is pleased to announce
the 11th edition of the Festival of Art History, taking place June 3, 4 and 5,
2022 in Fontainebleau, celebrating the theme of animals in art and theguest country of Portugal.
Every year, the Festival is the premier event for art lovers, the generalpublic, professionals, and students to share the passions and questions
in art history that inspire them. Now more than ever, the historyof art is for everyone, offering unique tools for understanding our worldand society.

The role of animals in art, across all eras and cultures, will be this year’sunifying theme. With the participation of historians, art historians,
philosophers, anthropologists, and artists, the Festival will explore therich history of visual and creative representations of animals made byhumans, vividly brought to life by the artistic bestiary within theChâteau de Fontainebleau. Another overarching question will be how
our comprehension of art both past and present can be renewed bycurrent issues regarding the coexistence between humans and animals,
as well as the treatment of animals. Artists Adel Abdessemed andBarthélémy Toguo, art historians Caroline van Eck, Hélène Guichard,and Estelle Zhong Mengual, anthropologists Philippe Charlier andJean-Loïc Le Quellec and many other Festival participants will consider
the changes that influence our relationships with other living beingsand the role of images in what may be a new alliance.

Frei Carlos, Le beau Pasteur, c. 1520,
huile sur panneau de bois de chêne,Lisbonne, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

This year, in response to the invasion of Ukraine, the planned
programming around the theme and guest country will besupplemented by a series of four roundtables dedicated to the historyof art and heritage in Ukraine, taking place on Saturday, June 4,and Sunday, June 5, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

The book and art journal fair, an unmissable event for specialized
publishers and booksellers, will return to full scale this year, with some
65 publishers and numerous book-related events (book presentations,meetings, etc.) The public will also be able to (re)discover the buildings
and gardens of the Chateau de Fontainebleau through numerous tours
led by curators and guides. Everyone is cordially invited to a series ofplayful workshops led by visual artist Véronique Frampas, a theatricalperformance by the Compagnie du Singe debout, a fado concert bysinger Rosete Caixinha, and a concert of baroque music organized byconductor Hugo Reyne. Several exhibitions and installations will roundout this rich program: Cave Canem: Jean-Baptiste Oudry et les chiens deLouis XV; Capturer l’âme: Rosa Bonheur et l’art animalier; and works byMiguel Branco that will be installed in various rooms of the chateau

Pierre-Josse Perrot, Six Feuilles de Paravent surles Fables d’Esope tissées à la Savonnerie,1739, crayon noir, plume et encre brune, aquarelle, gouache,
40 x 64,3 cm, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

The section on cinema, also focusing on Portugal and on animals inart, will comprise more than thirty events, including short and longfilms, dramas, documentaries, artists’ films, video works andanimation from all eras, classics and works previously unseen inFrance, and filmmakers both famous and lesser-known. Spanningwork from Manoel de Oliveira with Aniki-Bóbó and L’Étrange affaireAngelica and the Franco-Portuguese actress and director Maria deMedeiros, from the touching Ernest & Célestine by Gabrielle Vincent tothe troubling Bovines by Emmanuelle Gras, this program will conclude
with an exceptional masterclass by filmmaker Teresa Villaverde.

Séance du «Cinema do Povo»,
1935, Mouraria, Portugal

For this 11th edition, the Festival will honor Portugal and focus on thehistory of art in this country from prehistory to the contemporary era.
More than 60 Portuguese-speaking guests will be onsite to present theabundance of the visual arts in this country whose relations withFrance are close and yet imperfectly understood. This year’s Festival
will be inaugurated with a dialogue between two of the greatest
Portuguese creators working today: architect Eduardo Souto de Moura,winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2011, and sculptor Pedro Cabrita-Reis,
who has often exhibited in France.

and in the garden of Diana. Among the many other highlights are thecompetition “My Thesis in Art History or Archeology in 180 seconds”,
the Université de printemps d’histoire des arts, organized inpartnership with the French Ministry of Education, as well as asvarious events in partnership with the École du Louvre providing
further opportunities to learn about or deepen knowledge of thechateau’s works of art.
Free access is provided to all events during the three days of the Festival,including visits to the rooms of the chateau and exhibitions such asL’Art de la fête à la cour des Valois.

Guest List
ADEL ABDESSEMEDMIGUEL BRANCOPEDRO CABRITA-REIS
CRISTINA CASTEL-BRANCO
PHILIPPE CHARLIER
LUIS MIGUEL CINTRACAROLINE VAN ECKRAQUEL HENRIQUES DA SILVA MARIA DEMEDEIROSMICHEL PASTOUREAU LOUISSCHWEITZER
ANNE SIMONSUSANA DE SOUSA DIASEDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURABARTHÉLÉMY TOGUOTERESA VILLAVERDEESTELLE ZHONG MENGUALFrancisco de Holanda, Cinquième Jour de la Création
du Monde. Création des poissons et des oiseaux,(Santarém, 1547- Almeirim, 1551),
De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines, f. 7 recto,Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional d’España

The FHA22 is a partner event of the France-Portugal 2022 Season.

PRESS CONTACTSINSTITUT NATIONALD’HISTOIRE DE L’ARTCHÂTEAU DE
FONTAINEBLEAUMARIE-LAURE MOREAUCAMILLE BONEU

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