GRANIT brings together senior lecturers and doctoral students working on Modern art history and art theories in Northern Europe (France, Flanders, Netherlands, Germany, England, Scandinavia) to give a better visibility to the studies on Northern European art of the Early Modern Era. GRANIT studies the different stages of creation (commissions, invention and heritage) from a historical perspective and especially focuses on interactions between European countries to grasp their modes of appropriation and common heritage.GRANIT is open to various approaches of art history. Indeed, in addition to iconography and iconology, art theory, history of images and decorative art, specialist it also welcomes, for instance, recognized researchers in the field of visual studies or cultural studies