Biography
Dr Agnès Bos received her PhD from the École pratique des Hautes études (EPHE) in 2000. She is a former student from the École nationale des chartes (Paris). She was a curator almost 20 years, first at the Archives nationales and later at the Musée national de la Renaissance in Écouen. In 2006, she joined the Decorative Arts department of the Louvre as Senior Curator. There she specialised in Decorative Arts from the Late Middle Ages to the 17th century, mostly French decorative arts, with a focus on furniture, tapestries and textiles. She also has a wide range of interests from scientific instruments to history of collections and collecting.
She published the catalogue raisonné of the ebony furniture from the Musée national de la Renaissance in 2006, and curated several exhibitions. Her most recent book, the catalogue raisonné of the Medieval and Renaissance furniture of the Louvre has been released in December 2019. The only comprehensive research undertaken on a museum collection of Early furniture in the world, this was a multidisciplinary project that involved working closely with conservators, scientists and curators from other fields of speciality.
She joined the University of St Andrews in 2017 as a Lecturer in Museum Studies.
Her current research focuses on the Order of the Holy Spirit (Ordre du Saint-Esprit), especially the tangible and intangible expressions of the ceremonies held by this French Royal order of knighthood from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century. She will curate a major exhibition at the Louvre in 2022, dedicated to this Order. She is invited as a Guest Scholar by the JP Getty Museum in 2021 to research that project.
Selected publications
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Bois sculpté et polychromie: Retrouver les lignes et les couleurs du mobilier de la Renaissance
Bos, A. & Gay-Mazuel, A., Nov 2020, Revivals: L’historicisme dans les arts décoratifs français au XIXe siècle. Gay-Mazuel, A. & Dion, A. (eds.). Paris: Musées des Arts décoratifs, p. 160-165Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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La Renaissance
Bos, A., Oct 2020, Les Arts décoratifs en Europe. Mouquin, A.-S. (ed.). Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, p. 16-113Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Le cabinet d'ébène provenant de la collection Révoil conservé au musée du Louvre
Bos, A., Sept 2020, Un bretteur au service du patrimoine: Mélanges pour Jean-Michel Leniaud. Paris: Éditions Mare & MartinResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Le lit provenant du château d’Effiat (Puy-de-Dôme) conservé au musée du Louvre
Bos, A., 3 Oct 2019, In: In Situ. 40Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Les portes de la chapelle du château de la Bâtie d'Urfé
Bos, A., May 2019, Sacellum mirabile. Nouvelles études sur la chapelle de Claude d’Urfé. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, p. 119-131Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Mobilier du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance: la collection du musée du Louvre
Bos, A., 4 Dec 2019, Paris: Editions du Louvre. 447 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Une fausse lettre d'Hugues Sambin, menuisier bourguignon de la Renaissance
Bos, A., 1 Aug 2018, In: Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France. 2012, p. 124-137Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Art et liturgie au temps d’Henri III, à propos d’un textile de la chapelle de l’ordre du Saint-Esprit
Bos, A., 2016, In: Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France. 2011, p. 87-100Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Eléments de technique et de vocabulaire sur la broderie d’or à l’époque moderne, autour d’un manteau de l’ordre du Saint-Esprit conservé au musée du Louvre
Bos, A. & Villa, A., 2015, In: Technè. 41, p. 55-64Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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La restauration d’une tapisserie bruxelloise de la Renaissance par traitement enzymatique
Bos, A. & Forestier, S., 2015, In: Technè. 41, p. 101-107Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review