Online Workshop around Simon Burrows’ Oeuvre
From the Pamphlets and Patrons project:
18th-Century Libelles, Libellistes, and Book Trade
Workshop around Simon Burrows’ Oeuvre
Online and in-person, 22 September 2022
Organised by Damian Tricoire and the Pamphlets and Patrons (PAPA) project at the University of Trier
All times are Central European Time
13.00 Introduction — Damien Tricoire (Universität Trier)
13.15 Where’s Marie-Antoinette? Pamphlets, Politics, and French Enlightenment Print Culture — Simon Burrows (Western Sydney University)
14.00 The Palais-Royal Style of Revolution: Brissot, Secretary General of the Chancellery of the Duc d’Orléans — Damien Tricoire (Universität Trier)
14.45 Break
15.15 Political Pamphlets and Print Culture in Liège from the Triumph of Enlightenment to Revolution, 1764–1790 — Daniel Droixhe (Université de Liège)
16.00 Persecuting Printers in France before and after 1789 — Jane McLeod (Brock University)
16.45 Break
17.15 Round Table Discussion
• Simon Burrows (Western Sydney University)
• Edmond Dziembowski (Université de Franche-Comté)
• Olivier Ferret (Université de Lyon)
• Julian Swann (Birbeck University of London)
If you wish to attend online through Zoom or in person, please write to doering@uni-trier.de.
22 September 2022, 12.45pm Paris
Zoom-Meeting
https://uni-trier.zoom.us/j/87391514608?pwd=MlMxYzFsU1hUNFM0OUhndzMwZXBYUT09
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Colloquium | Inventaires et cartographies du patrimoine
From the conference programme, with more information about the Collecta research project noted below :
Inventaires et cartographies du patrimoine, XVIIe–XXIe siècle
École du Louvre, Paris, 15–16 September 2022
Organisé dans le cadre du programme de recherche Collecta Archives numériques de la collection Gaignières (1642–1715)
Depuis 2014, le programme de recherche Collecta interroge les pratiques érudites du Grand Siècle et les met en perspective à partir de l’exemple de la collection de François-Roger de Gaignières (1642–1715).
Sa reconstitution et sa mise en ligne ont requis la création d’un outil numérique (collecta.fr) qui tente de rendre compte des liens et des cheminements qui se trament, au sein de la collection :
• à travers les stades du travail de l’érudit — des sources, notes et brouillons aux dessins mis au net et classés pour la présentation au public ;
• à travers les matériaux réunis par l’érudit — tableaux et gravures, manuscrits et imprimés, dessins et copies d’archives ;
• à travers les points d’entrée retenus par l’érudit — personnes, familles, institutions, lieux, périodes.
Se dessinent ainsi les itinéraires mentaux, documentaires, mais aussi spatiaux de l’érudit à travers ses sources, son réseau de contacts, les lieux qu’il visite, ses centres d’intérêt et les méthodes qu’il déploie dans son objectif d’inventaire des monuments et des familles du royaume et de l’Europe.
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9.30 Accueil des participants
10.00 Ouverture du colloque — Claire Barbillon (École du Louvre) et François Bougard (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)
10.20 Introduction
• Après Gaignières : continuité et discontinuité, les enjeux d’une reconstitution numérique de la collection — Anne Ritz-Guilbert (École du Louvre / Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)
• Le point de vue du design : mise en perspective de la nouvelle interface Collecta & esthétique de la structure — Sophie Fétro (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Kim Sacks (Université de Strasbourg)
13.00 I. Héraldique et territoires
Michel Pastoureau (École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Marquage héraldique, cartographie et histoire des lignages : les relevés de Gaignières à la chapelle des chanoinesses de Luynes — Sarah Héquette (École du Louvre / École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Une géographie des ordres ? L’ombre de la chevalerie dans la collection Gaignières — Pierre Couhault (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
• Inventorier et cartographier l’héraldique des municipalités portugaises : l’armorial de Cristóvão Alão de Morais — Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
• La cartographie héraldique de Frotier de la Messelière — Laurent Hablot (École pratique des Hautes Études)
15.45 II. La copie comme mise en récit des archives
Marlène Helias-Baron (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)
• L’apport des copies de Gaignières à la connaissance des archives de l’abbaye de Longpont — Benoît-Michel Tock (Université de Strasbourg)
• Voyage au passé. Les cartulaires de la collection Gaignières comme fenêtres sur les archives de jadis — Annalena Müller (Université de Fribourg)
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9.00 III. Voyages, séries, topographies
Émilie d’Orgeix (École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Construire une collection topographique au XVIIe siècle. L’élaboration des portefeuilles dans la collection Gaignières — Damien Bril (Institut national du patrimoine)
• Mémoires des lieux, mémoires des hommes. Étude du portefeuille topographique « Beauce et Vendômois » de la collection Gaignières (1642–1715) — Clotilde Vivier (École du Louvre)
• Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes. Lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle – milieu du XVIIe siècle) — Eric Grosjean (École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Voyager en image : la topographie dans la collection de Jehannin de Chamblanc (1722–1797) — Johanna Daniel (Institut national d’histoire de l’art, LAHRA – Lyon 2)
14.00 IV. Visualisation et narration, du portefeuille au numérique
Anne Ritz-Guilbert (École du Louvre/Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)
• Les humanités numériques, un lieu pour les archives du bizarre — Myriam Marrache-Gouraud (Université de Poitiers)
• Construire un outil d’association de données à l’heure de l’open data : la Fabrique Numérique du Passé — Laurent Costa (UMR 7041 ArScAn)
• La fabrique du paysage urbain parisien avant les destructions haussmanniennes : inventorier et cartographier les savoirs — Ellie Khounlivong (École du Louvre), Christophe Claramunt (Institut de Recherche de l’École navale), Éric Mermet (Centre d’analyse et de mathématique sociales, UMR 8557), et Alexandre Radjesvarane (CY Tech)
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From Le Domaine d’Intérêt Majeur Sciences du Texte et Connaissances Nouvelles:
The Collecta + Project is part of a larger research program in digital humanities, devoted to the collection of François-Roger de Gaignières (1642–1715). After launching the website http://www.collecta.fr and its database which provides a reconstitution of the collection now dispersed, Collecta + has defined three main objectives, in partnership with the ANG-G project (Digital Geolocated Archive — the Gaignières collection) sponsored by the ANR (Research Project Funding) within the framework of the IRHT-CNRS.
The first goal is to enrich the database, giving priority to documents relating to the Ile-de-France region. The complete digitization of the Gaignières collection kept in the Bodleian Library of Oxford—1,600 drawings of medieval and modern monuments, mainly from the Paris region—offers a considerable breakthrough in the knowledge of the region’s collection and heritage.
Secondly, we will examine the contribution of geolocation to bring out a better understanding of the collection and the monuments concerned. A mobile application based on the drawings of the Gaignières collection will be the central tool of a participatory research method to launch an inquiry on local heritage. The collection of geolocated datas will offer the opportunity to conduct a large-scale study on the history of viewpoints.
The third objective is to promote interchanges with other projects or partners of the DIM STCN, in particular E-signa and the Bibale database of the IRHT-CNRS. Sharing digital ressources and tools, we will accentuate the interoperability of academic programmes and we will ultimately offer a common platform as a reference frame for research on regional, national and international levels.
Conference | English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass, 1640–1702
From the V&A:
Celebrating the Birth of English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass, 1640–1702
In-person and online, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 6 October 2022
Organised by Colin Brain, Reino Liefkes, and Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, with assistance from Simon Spier
2022 has been designated the International Year of Glass by the United Nations. This year also marks 125 years since the publication of Albert Harshorne’s Old English Glasses, the first serious study of the history of English and Irish glass. To celebrate, the V&A is presenting a conference Celebrating the Birth of English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass, 1640–1702, in partnership with the Association for the History of Glass. This study day aims to explore the evolving story of the birth of these sophisticated products, a century before the ‘industrial revolution’ began.
The conference has been organised by Colin Brain (Association for the History of Glass), Reino Liefkes (V&A) and Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth (University of Edinburgh), with assistance from Dr Simon Spier (V&A).
In-person tickets, through Eventbrite
Online tickets, through Eventbrite
Roemer drinking glass, attributed to George Ravenscroft, probably at the Savoy Glasshouse, London, ca. 1677 (London: V&A, C.530-1936).
P R O G R A M M E
10.00 Registration with Tea and Coffee
10.25 Welcome — Justine Bayley and Reino Liefke
10.30 Morning Session
• Colin Brain — ‘And of noe other sorts or fashions’: Fashionable Design in the Birth of English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass
• Peter Francis — The Irish ‘Lead Glass Revolution’
• Jo Wheeler — Recipes for Lead-glass and Cristallo in Venetian and Florentine Sources and Their Influence on Antonio Neri
• Reino Liefkes — A New Type of Colourless Glass in Imitation of Rock Crystal: Crizzled Glass of the Late-Seventeenth Century
1.00 Lunch Break
2.15 Afternoon Session
• Oliver Gunning — New Perspectives on the Role of the Migrant in British Crystal Glass
• Antoine Giacometti — Seventeenth-Century Glass from the Dublin Castle Excavations, 1961–1987
• Inês Coutinho and Colin Brain — Science in the Service of History: Analysis of Early English and Irish Crystalline Glasses
• Iris Moon and Karen Stamm — Drinking Glass in the Met Museum’s British Galleries
5.10 Closing Remarks — Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
Tessin Lecture | Melissa Hyde on Pink and Portraits
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Portrait of Olivier Journu, 1756, pastel on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on canvas, 58 × 47 cm
(New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.26)
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This conference marks the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Sweden’s national portrait gallery at Gripsholm. Melissa Hyde will deliver this year’s Tessin lecture as the keynote address on Thursday, 15 September. The full conference schedule is available here.
Statens porträttsamling 200 år / The State Portrait Collection: 200 Years
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, 15–16 September 2022
Melissa Hyde, In the Pink: Eighteenth-Century French Portraiture
Though never as ubiquitous in the eighteenth century as the colour blue, pink became the colour par excellence of the French Rococo. The colour was intimately associated with the so-called ‘Godmother of the Rococo’, Madame de Pompadour, the famous mistress of Louis XV. But even before Pompadour, pink was a hue much favored amongst elites in France, where it attained an unprecedented level of visibility in the visual and decorative arts and in the fashions worn by women, children, and men. This talk will demonstrate why, in the eighteenth-century, to wear pink was to make a statement—a statement made all the more emphatic and enduring when memorialized in portraiture; and one in which gender, class and/or race played a fundamental role. These matters concerning portraiture ‘in the pink’ will be addressed by way of some very basic, but actually quite complicated, questions: what did pink mean in the eighteenth century? What colors were comprehended by ‘pink’? Who did or didn’t embrace this color and why? In light of the complexities and nuances of pink, what might it have meant for a racially ‘white’ Frenchman to wear this notionally feminine colour (or to have himself depicted wearing it)?
Melissa Hyde is Professor and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. Her scholarly interests include: women artists, and more broadly, the gendering of aesthetic culture, the cultural meanings of color, the history of the Salon and art criticism, self-portraiture, and questions of identity and place. She teaches courses on European art (c. 1650–1830), as well as courses on gender and the visual arts from the late Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. Professor Hyde’s research and publications focus on gender and visual culture in eighteenth- century France. Her work has appeared in The Art Bulletin, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and numerous edited volumes. Key publications include Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (2006), Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment (catalogue for an exhibition she co-curated in 2017), and numerous book chapters and articles. She is author of two recent essays on the contemporary pastel artist, Nicolas Party. She is currently completing a book project entitled, Painted by Herself: Marie-Suzanne Giroust: Madame Roslin, the Forgotten Académicienne.
The Tessin Lecture
Once a year the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm invites a prominent international scholar to give a lecture in art history. The lecture, which is public, is a way to pay tribute to an exceptional scholar in art history and emphasize the museum’s commitment to research.
Conference | Ales through the Ages
From the announcement (20 July 2022) and the conference website:
Ales through the Ages
Online and in-person, Colonial Williamsburg, 11–13 November 2022
Craft beer may be enjoying a surge in popularity, but as participants in Colonial Williamsburg’s Ales through the Ages conference will discover, there’s nothing new about the beverage. In this one-of-a-kind history conference, offered both virtually and in-person November 11–13, participants will journey through time and space with some of the world’s top beer scholars to follow beer from its primitive roots to its modern form.
Register to reserve your opportunity to mingle with an international lineup of guests including maltsers, authors, brewery owners, social media influencers, and entrepreneurs. Speakers include
• Pete Brown, author, journalist, broadcaster, and consultant in food and drink, and 2020 recipient of Imbibe Magazine’s Industry Legend award, delivering the opening keynote, sponsored by the Virginia Beer Museum: The Highs and Lows of Researching Beer History
• Award-winning author and former journalist, Martyn Cornell, an authority on the history of British beer and the development of British beer styles, discussing the origins of Pale Ale
• George ‘Butch’ Heilshorn, co-founder of Earth Eagle Brewings and Talisman Spirits, going Back to the Future of Botanical Beers
• Food and drink historian Marc Meltonville on reconstructing a Tudor brewery and producing beer from a 16th-century recipe, the products of his venture with the FoodCult project
• Maltster Andrea Stanley on developments in malting technology in the 18th and 19th centuries
• Author Lee Graves exploring the connection between early American brewing and the West African beer traditions of enslaved populations
• Craig Gravina journeying through 400 Years of Beer and Brewing in New York’s Hudson Valley
• Journalist and author Stan Hieronymus providing insight into Breaking the Lupulin Code
• Ron Pattinson on the transformative story of UK brewing during World War I
• ‘The Beer Archaeologist’, Travis Rupp, sharing what he’s dug up most recently on ancient brewing
• Kyle Spears and Dan Lauro from Carillon Brewing Co. on operating a historic brewery in the modern world
The full program is available here»
In-person registrants will have the opportunity to enjoy a pint from the past with speakers and other attendees at an opening reception on Friday night sponsored by Aleworks Brewing Company that will feature their historic brew collaborations with Colonial Williamsburg; Saturday lunch accompanied by 18th-century theater and historically-based brews; and a post-conference gathering at Virginia Beer Company with guest speakers, Historians on Tap. Tickets for the event at Virginia Beer Company are available to in-person attendees for $20 and include beer samples from local breweries, including special brews developed in partnership with Colonial Williamsburg’s 18th master of historic foodways, Frank Clark. Attendees are also encouraged to bring and share homebrews for a truly unique taste-testing experience.
In-person registration is $275 per person and includes access to lectures, the welcome reception, and the Saturday lunch. Virtual-only registration is $100 per person and includes access to lectures through the conference streaming platform. Both in-person and virtual-only registration include a 7-day ticket voucher to Colonial Williamsburg’s Art Museums and Historic Area, valid for redemption through 31 May 2023. A limited number of virtual and in-person conference scholarships are available to students, museum or non-profit professionals, and emerging brewers with an application deadline of September 20. Special room rates at Colonial Williamsburg hotels are available for in-person conference registrants. All registrants will have access to the main conference lectures via the streaming platform through 31 December 2022.
This conference is made possible by the generosity of private and corporate sponsors including Virginia Beer Company, Virginia Beer Museum, and Aleworks Brewing Company.
Symposium | Architecture and Health, 1660–1830
James Gibbs, The Great Hall of St Bart’s, London, 1730s (Photo by David Butler). Situated on the first floor of the hospital’s North Wing, the Great Hall is approached by way of a grand staircase, the walls of which were decorated by William Hogarth. At the top of the stairs, the Great Hall is accessed by a dominating doorway opening into the large hall, decorated with portraits and dedications to the early contributors to the redevelopment of the hospital. More information is available here»
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From The Georgian Group:
Architecture and Health, 1660–1830
Georgian Group Symposium, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 3 November 2022
Rescheduled for 27 February 2023
Following successful symposia held by the Georgian Group in previous years—on the Adam Brothers, James Gibbs, Women and Architecture, and Georgian London Revisited (online)—this year’s symposium will address Architecture & Health in the long eighteenth century. Appropriately, it will be held in James Gibbs’s Great Hall at St Bartholomew’s, an institution celebrating its 900th anniversary. A series of short papers by both established and younger scholars, and from a range of disciplines, will examine how and where medicine was studied and debated, how knowledge was disseminated, and how healthcare was provided in what spaces and through what mechanisms. The symposium will be held from 10am to 5pm and will be led by Ann Marie Akehurst. Tickets (£70) include a buffet lunch and reception; a limited number of student tickets (£35 ) are also available. Please read the Terms and Conditions before booking. If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list.
P R O G R A M M E
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome
Session 1: Transmission of Medico-Scientific Knowledge
• Matthew Walker — The Architecture of English Anatomy Theatres 1660–1800
• Janet Stiles Tyson — Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal and Bart’s
• Danielle Wilkens — Health in the Academy: Jefferson’s University of Virginia and Landscapes of Inequity
Session 2: Outside the Institutions: Health and Environment
• Joana Balsa de Pinho — Health, Architecture and Urbanism in the Early Modern Era: From Prevention to Treatment
• Allan Brodie — Georgian Margate: A Landscape and Townscape of Health
• India Knight — The Spa at Hampstead
Session 3: Places of Confinement
• Anna Jamieson — ‘Bedlam’s Picture Gallery’: Health, Performance, and the Built Environment at Bethlem
• Leslie Topp — Early Asylums and the Curious Appeal of Prison Designs
• Marina Ini — John Howard and the Quarantine Centres of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean
• Sarah Akibogun — The (Other) Woman in The Attic: Considering Post-Colonial Lenses on the Treatment of Madness in Georgian England
Session 4: Enduring Hospital Spaces
• Tessa Murdoch — French Protestant Hospital in Clerkenwell, 1742
• Elisabeth Einberg — Hogarth’s Use of Architectural Space to Bring Home the Message
• Dan Cruickshank — Bart’s Great Hall
• Will Palin — Bart’s Heritage
5.00 Drinks Reception
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N.B. — (note added 22 February 2023) — The symposium was postponed from November to February due to train strikes; the schedule has also been adjusted with an 11am start time; please see the Georgian Society website for details.
Call for Panel Proposals | HECAA at 30
Hannah Otis, View of Boston Common, about 1750
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996.26)
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HECAA@30: Environments, Materials, and Futures of the Eighteenth Century
Boston, 12–15 October 2023
Proposald due by 1 September 2022
The Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) announce an open call for panel proposals for our quinquennial conference, to be held in Boston, 12–15 October 2023.
On the land of the Massachusett and neighboring Wampanoag and Nipmuc peoples, Boston developed in the eighteenth century as a major colonized and colonizing site. Its status today as a cultural and intellectual hub is shaped by that context, making it a critical location to trace the cultural legacies of racism and social injustice between the eighteenth century and today. For whom is ‘eighteenth-century art and architecture’ a useful category? What eighteenth-century materials, spaces, and images offer tools or concepts for shaping our collective futures? In considering these questions, we aim to be deliberate about expanding HECAA’s traditional focus on Western European art and architecture and specifically encourage proposals from scholars working on Asia, Africa and the African diaspora, Indigenous cultures, and the Islamic world.
We invite proposals for panel topics that engage with any of the above questions from various cultural perspectives. Topics could focus on ‘environments’ (e.g., workshops, urban spaces, oceans, religious spaces, domestic spaces), ‘materials’ (e.g., silver, sugar, canvas, wood, paper), ‘futures’ (e.g., period visions of the future or new directions in the field); or ‘actors’ (e.g., artists, workers, makers, patrons). We encourage creative and expansive ways of thinking about these topics. We also welcome panel proposals addressing other questions and approaches that are vital to eighteenth-century art and architecture.
Selected organizers will be asked to form panels of 3–4 speakers delivering 15-minute papers, or a roundtable session, from a separate open call for papers that will be publicized widely in Fall 2022.
In addition to plenary sessions, the conference will feature visits to area museums and architectural sites; panels that connect to collections or places in or around Boston, Cambridge, Salem, and Providence are welcome. Panel organizers should expect to attend the conference in person.
Interested panel organizers should submit a one-page abstract describing the topic and proposed format to Stacey Sloboda (stacey.sloboda@umb.edu) and Susan Wager (susan.wager@unh.edu) by 1 September 2022. Organizers of successful panels will be asked to join HECAA if they are not already members.
Conference | Portrait Miniatures
From the Tansey Miniatures Foundation and the conference programme:
Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions, and Collections
Celle Castle, Tansey Miniatures Foundation, Celle Castle (near Hanover), 9–11 September 2022
This conference will take place in conjunction with the seventh exhibition of the Tansey Miniatures Foundation and the publication of the accompanying catalogue Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection. 23 speakers from 11 different countries will address a range of topics related to portrait miniatures:
• Individual miniaturists, specific workshop contexts, and places of production
• Use and functions of both court and private types and their protagonists
• Iconographic aspects in the context of representation or intimacy
• Evolution of techniques and materials
• Private and public collections
The conference will be in English. The presentations will subsequently be published in a richly illustrated book. Admission is free. Both conference venues are within walking distance (20 minutes) from the railway station. Trains from Hannover take approximately 25 to 45 minutes (Deutsche Bahn, Metronom, and S-Bahn). For registration, please contact Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, The Tansey Miniatures Foundation, juliane.schmieglitz-otten@tansey-miniatures.com. For more information, please contact Bernd Pappe, The Tansey Miniatures Foundation, bernd.pappe@tansey-miniatures.com.
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16.00 Registration
18.00 Welcome and Opening Lectures
• Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, Realism and Modernism in the Likenesses of a New Epoch: Highlights of the Exhibition Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon
• Bernd Pappe, Making a Small Man Great: Miniatures of Napoleon I
• Birgitt Schmedding, Two Views: The Power of Seeing
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9.00 Objects, Agencies, and Social Practices
• Gerrit Walczak (Berlin), Icons of Intimacy: Sex, Agency, and the Portrait Miniature
• André and Anne-Marie Regnard-Denis (Belgium), Gestures and Their Meaning in Portrait Miniatures
• Karin Schrader (Bad Nauheim), ‘Telling Objects’: Miniatures in 18th-Century Courtly Portraits
• Lea C. Stephenson (Philadelphia), Racial Capital: Peter Marié’s Miniatures and Gilded Age Whiteness
• Jann Matlock (London), The Museum of Lost Portraits: Paris, 1794–1805
• Damiët Schneeweisz (London), Shipped, Worn, or Carried: Portrait Miniatures in the Atlantic Ocean World
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Politics and Representation
• Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten (Celle), Pictorial Family Ties: Series of Portrait Miniatures Serving Political Networks
• Martin Miersch (Ulm), Fashion and Political Statement: Portrait Miniatures from the Time of the French Revolution
• Maxime Charron (Paris), Examples of Intimate Portraits from the Royal and Imperial Courts of France during the First Half of the 19th Century
• Agnieszka Fulińska (Krakow), A Reputed Portrait Miniature of the King of Rome and Images of Children from Napoleon’s Entourage
• Marina Vidas (Copenhagen), Portrait Miniatures Set in Jewellery and Objects of Personal Adornment Connected to Queen Louise of Denmark and Her Daughter, Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
17.30 Special Techniques and Materials
• David Hradil, Janka Hradilová, and Olga Trmalová (Prague), Benefits of Non-Invasive Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning for the Analysis of Materials in Portrait Miniatures
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9.00 Special Techniques and Materials
• Christine Slottved Kimbriel, Paola Ricciardi, and Flavia Fiorillo (London), Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature: The Materiality of Isaac Oliver’s Oeuvre
• Alan Derbyshire and Lucia Burgio (London), The William Wood Manuscripts
10.00 Miniature Painters
• Martin Spies (Giessen), In Search of Charles Townley, Painter of Miniatures and Engraver to the King of Prussia
• Luise Schreiber Knaus and Peter Knaus (Bodelshausen), The Miniature Painter Jeremiah Meyer: His Life and Career during the Reign of King George III
• Sonja Remensberger (Winterthur), Pierre-Louis Bouvier (1765–1836): Life and Work of a Geneva Miniature Painter whilst Working Abroad
• Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard (Paris), Ambroise Charlemagne Victor Le Chenetier: When a 19th-Century Artist Hides Another One
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Collections of Portrait Miniatures
• Stephen Lloyd (Liverpool), Horace Walpole’s Recently Discovered Plan for Displaying His Miniatures and Enamels in the Cabinet of the Tribuna at Strawberry Hill
• Maria Dunina (Moscow), The Collection of Miniatures of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
• Tatiana Udras (Moscow), Portrait Miniatures of the Romanoff Family in Russian and Foreign Collections
• Cecilia Rönnerstam (Stockholm), On Origins and Originals: The History of a Collection
• Blythe Sobol (Kansas City), An Outsized Passion for Miniatures: The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Symposium | Everyday Rococo
From the FPS:
Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and the Arts
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1–2 July 2022
Organised by Mia Jackson and Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
The French Porcelain Society is pleased to announce the rescheduling of the symposium Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and the Arts to be held at the Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on the 1st and 2nd July 2022. With two days of papers, this will be the first reassessment of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson’s artistic patronage since the landmark exhibition, Madame de Pompadour et les Arts of 2002. Commemorating the tercentenary of her birth and marking the publication of Rosalind Savill’s book Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain, this conference will welcome international experts discussing her interests in the fine and decorative arts. Speakers’ biographies and paper abstracts are available here. The symposium is organised by Dr Mia Jackson (Waddesdon Manor) and Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth (DAS Department, V&A Museum).
To book tickets, please visit the French Porcelain Society’s website»
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10.20 Welcome and Introduction by Dame Rosalind Savill (moderator of Day One)
10.35 Morning Session
• John Whitehead (Independent Scholar), The Crisis of 1745: New Thoughts on Madame de Pompadour, the Orry Brothers, and the Vincennes Porcelain Factory
• Kristel Smentek (Associate Professor of Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Asia at Home: Madame de Pompadour’s Mounted Chinese Porcelain
• Susan Wager (Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, University of New Hampshire), Pompadour Sculpsit: Gems, Prints, and Authorship
13.20 Lunch Break
14.20 Afternoon Session
• Aileen Ribeiro (Professor Emeritus, Courtauld Institute of Art), Madame de Pompadour and the Goddess of Appearances
• Joana Mylek (PhD Candidate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Madame de Pompadour’s Collection of Meissen Porcelain
• Bertrand Rondot (Conservateur en chef, Château de Versailles), A Rococo Rupture: Or Madame de Pompadour’s Taste in Furniture
16.30 Discussion
18.00 Drinks at the Savile Club (generously sponsored by Christie’s and Bonhams)
19.30 Dinner at the Savile Club (reservation only)
S A T U R D A Y , 2 J U L Y 2 0 2 2
10.20 Opening Remarks by Helen Jacobsen (moderator of Day Two)
10.25 Morning Session
• Rosalind Savill (Former Director of the Wallace Collection), Madame de Pompadour’s Sèvres Porcelain for Everyday Use
• Mia Jackson (Curator of Decorative Arts, Waddesdon Manor), Pampered and Adored: Madame de Pompadour’s Pets
• Alexandre Gady (Professor of the History of Art, Sorbonne Université), Madame de Pompadour as a Patron of Architecture: Some Reflections
13.00 Lunch Break
14.00 Afternoon Session
• Rachel Jacobs (Curator of Books and Manuscripts, Waddesdon Manor), Madame de Pompadour’s Library
• Alden Gordon (Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College, Hartford), The Language of Gifts: Madame de Pompadour’s Hierarchy of Giving and Receiving
15.15 Discussion
15.45 Closing Remarks
Masterpiece London Programming | Serious Fun / Stones of Rome
In conjunction with this year’s Masterpiece London, which runs from 30 June to 6 July:
Serious Fun: The Masterpiece Museum Symposium
Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, Saturday, 2 July 2022
Unknown maker, candlestick, France, ca. 1745–49, gilt bronze and silvered bronze, 25 cm high (London: The Wallace Collection, F79).
Masterpiece London is delighted to host a morning of debate and discussion, co-organised by the Fair and the writer and critic Thomas Marks, to bring together preeminent museum curators and conservators with the leading figures in the art and antiques trade, with the aim of encouraging constructive discussion, networking and the exchange of knowledge and practical advice. Serious Fun is the seventh in a series of events that Masterpiece London launched in 2018—with recent online events focusing on conservation, artistic materials and the role of research in museums. This summer the Masterpiece Symposium returns to an in-person format at the Fair in London for the first time since 2019, with the focus turning to museums of places of pleasure, wonder, surprise—and even fun. The subject has been chosen to pay tribute to the late Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Chairman of Masterpiece London from 2012 to 2022, who consistently took delight in museum collections around the world and generously shared that joy with friends, colleagues, and the wider public.
It is a truism to describe museums as places of education but perhaps less common to celebrate how they ought to provide diversion too. Certainly, many great civic museums, and particularly those founded during the 19th century, once shared with the popular spectacles of the time the desire to entertain their audiences while pursuing their educational purposes (some Victorian museums had an ‘almost carnival atmosphere’, the late Giles Waterfield wrote). It is now sometimes assumed, however, that seriousness and levity cannot coexist in museums. But whyever not?
Over the course of a morning at Masterpiece London, experts will offer a range of perspectives on the role of leisure and pleasure in museums, exploring historical attempts to associate learning with enjoyment and considering what might be gained by doing so today. How have museums historically had fun? Could enjoyment be more central to how we discuss, design, and experience museums, and to what purpose? How can wonder or pleasure be fostered through collection displays, exhibitions, and other museum activities? As ever at the Masterpiece Symposium, attendees will be invited to participate in the discussion in Q&As with panellists and in break-out sessions during the course of the event—with the aim of sharing knowledge and ideas.
P R O G R A M M E
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.15. Panel Discussion: The Museum at Play
Moderated by Thomas Marks
• Dinah Casson | Museum and exhibition designer, and co-founder, Casson Mann
• Jane Munro | Keeper of Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• Ben Street | Art historian, lecturer, and writer (How to Enjoy Art; How to Be an Art Rebel)
This discussion will focus on the current situation in museums, exploring how they might enable and harness enjoyment among their audiences. The conversation will explore how museum architecture, exhibitions, and displays succeed in kindling imaginative wonder; surprise, wit, even comedy (or comic art) as modes of engagement; how artist interventions might provoke meaningful diversion; and the balance between encouraging delight and offering interpretation in the display of works of art.
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30 Break-out Sessions
Attendees will be invited to join small discussion groups (6–8 people) for conversation, drawing on their own ideas and experience, and prompted by the first panel discussion and wider theme of the symposium.
12.00 Panel Discussion: Historical Entertainments
Moderated by Thomas Marks
• Helen Dorey | Deputy Director and Inspectress, Sir John Soane’s Museum
• Ella Ravilious | Architecture and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum
• Mark Westgarth | Associate Professor in Art History and Museum Studies, University of Leeds
This discussion will explore how museums have historically sought to enlist types of enjoyment as a mode of fulfilling their wider mission. It will encompass the relationship between leisure and education in Victorian civic museums, including the South Kensington Museum; how surprise and wonder have historically played a role in museum architecture and display, such as at Sir John Soane’s Museum; early attempts to ‘activate’ collections; and the emergence of displays, tours and other activities aimed at children. How might we borrow from such institutional legacies to the benefit of the 21st-century museum?
Many Enfilade readers will also find this session on Friday, 1 July interesting:
Stones of Rome
Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, 1 July 2022, 12.30
Adriano Aymonino is Programme Director of the MA in the Art Market and the History of Collecting at the University of Buckingham. He has curated several exhibitions, including Drawn from the Antique: Artists and the Classical Ideal. His book Enlightened Eclecticism was published by Yale University Press in June 2021, and he is currently working on a revised edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s Taste and the Antique (2022). He is also associate editor of the Journal of the History of Collections.
Silvia Davoli specializes in the history of collections and patronage with particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is a research associate at Oxford University and Curator at Strawberry Hill House (the Horace Walpole Collection). Silvia is also associate editor of the Journal of the History of Collections.
Fabio Barry studied architecture at the University of Cambridge (MA, Dip Arch), and briefly practiced before receiving his PhD in art history from Columbia University. He has taught at the University of St. Andrews and Stanford University, and is currently Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at The Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His research has often concentrated on art in Rome, particularly Baroque architecture, but recent publications have ranged farther afield and dwell on medieval and antique art, especially sculpture. An ongoing concern has been the imagery of marble in the visual arts and literature, especially the evocative qualities of the medium before the era of mass production distanced it from the realm of nature and myth. His book Painting in Stone Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment was published by Yale University Press in 2020, awarded the 2021 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Studies by the Association of American Publishers, and is currently shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
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