A ppel à articles : « Renaissance in Gold. Knowledge, Symbolics and Uses of a Versatile Material in Europe » Argumentaire The Renaissance appears as a pivotal period in the history of gold in Europe. Conversely, the uses of gold have been seen as pivotal in the definition of the Renaissance. Indeed, art historians have made gold an emblematic material of medieval painting, abandoned precisely from the fifteenth century onwards. In 1942, Max J. Friedländer (On Art and Connoisseurship) described gold as a substance unsuited to the new paradigm of illusionism, and for this very reason abhorred by the most innovative painters. According to Friedländer, . . . → En lire plus