Mehrdeutigkeit und manieristische Wendung

Abstract

The French Renaissance ceramist Bernard Palissy (c. 1510–1590) made astonishingly lifelike casted and glazed little animals and plants, the so-called rustiques figulines. His work has been studied from a perspective of art history as well as the history of science. By re-analyzing art theoretical connotations, work processes, and strategies of self-representation, this article delves deep into the interdisciplinary relationship between art and science and gives a close reading of the rustiques figulines’ ambiguous structure. Palissy’s ceramics are contextualized within artistic mannerist strategies of his time and compared with works of Benvenuto Cellini and Wenzel Jamnitzer.

Keywords

• Bernard Palissy
• Keramik
• Kunstgeschichte
• Wissenschaftsgeschichte
• Manierismus
• 16. Jahrhundert