Starting in April: Jonathan Marsden to Direct the Royal Collection
As noted in a press release from the Royal Collection:
Her Majesty The Queen has appointed Mr. Jonathan Marsden to the position of Director Designate of the Royal Collection. Mr. Marsden, who is currently Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art, will succeed Sir Hugh Roberts as Director of the Royal Collection on Sir Hugh’s retirement in April 2010.
Jonathan Marsden joined the Royal Collection in 1996. He previously worked as a curator for the National Trust in North Wales and Oxfordshire. As Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art he has been responsible for the decorative arts collections in all the royal residences. He has published widely on sculpture, especially French bronzes, and on the history of collecting. He has contributed to a number of exhibitions at The Queen’s Gallery in London, including George III and Queen Charlotte in 2004.
He is currently working on an exhibition about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which opens at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace in March 2010.
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Jane Roberts (ed.), George III and Queen Charlotte; Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste (The Royal Collection, 2004), ISBN: 1902163737.
Jonathan Marsden, ed., The Wisdom of George the Third:
Papers from a Symposium at the Queen’s Gallery,
Buckingham Palace (Royal Collection, 2006), ISBN:
978-1902163727.
Abbey of Cluny after the Revolution
Probably of interest to those of you working on medievalism and the nineteenth century, but the eighteenth century still matters here all the same:
Constructions, reconstructions et commémorations clunisiennes, 1790-2010
Théâtre de Cluny, Ville de Cluny, 13-15 May 2010
A colloquium on the theme of the 1100th anniversary of the foundation of the Abbey of Cluny will take place, consisting of papers by specialists on the abbey’s history. Along with the program provided below, more information can be found at the conference website.
THURSDAY, 13 May 2010
2:00 – 6:30, Restaurations et commémorations, 1790-2010
- Jean-Luc Delpeuch (Mairie de Cluny), Accueil des participants.
- Didier Méhu (Université Laval, Québec), Pourquoi (ne pas) commémorer ?
- Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS, Paris / Auxerre), Commémorations clunisiennes, 1910-2010.
- Yann Potin (Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne), La destruction de l’abbaye de Cluny ou la puissance du vide, 1790-1825.
- Alain Rauwel (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Une tentative de restauration monastique à Cluny au XIXe siècle : Dom Mayeul Lamey.
FRIDAY, 14 May 2010
9:30 – 1:00, Cluny et la construction du discours scientifique aux XIXe et XXe siècles
- Isabelle Vernus (Archives départementales de Saône-et-Loire, Mâcon), Les monumenta clunisiens : le sort des archives de Cluny.
- Alain Guerreau (CNRS, Paris), Les recherches sur Cluny au XXe siècle : la balkanisation et ses conséquences.
- Daniel Russo (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Cluny dans l’histoire de l’art français d’Émile Mâle à Henri Focillon.
- Kathryn Brush (London, Ontario, University of Western Ontario), Arthur Kingsley Porter et la genèse de sa vision de Cluny.
2:45 – 7:00, Reconstructions émotionnelles et littéraires
- Janet Marquardt (Charleston, Illinois, Eastern Illinois University), Du martyr au monument : les reconstructions romantiques.
- Nicolas Reveyron (Université Lumière – Lyon II, Institut universitaire de France), François Cucherat, l’autre fils de Semur.
- Laurent Baridon (Université Pierre Mendès-France – Grenoble II) et Didier Méhu (Université Laval, Québec), Viollet-le-Duc et Cluny.
- Elizabeth Emery (Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair State University), Cluny dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle.
- François Amy de la Bretèque (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III), Chronique d’une absence : Cluny, les moines et le cinéma.
SATURDAY, 15 May 2010
9:30 – 1:00, Reconstructions et présentations contemporaines
- Frédéric Didier (Monuments historiques, Paris), Les enjeux des restaurations et reconstructions monumentales de l’abbaye de Cluny.
- Guillaume Schotté et Jean-François Coulais (ENSAM, Cluny), Les enjeux des reconstitutions virtuelles de l’église abbatiale, de la ville et de l’environnement urbain de Cluny.
- Table ronde conclusive: Commémoration, patrimoine et histoire.
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