Conference | Staging the Holy
From H-ArtHist:
Internationaler Barocksommerkurs: Die Inszenierung des Heiligen
Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 26–30 June 2016
Registration due by 24 June 2016
Mit Unterstützung der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften und des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds. Die Veranstaltung ist öffentlich. Gasthörer sind herzlich willkommen. Aus organisatorischen Gründen bitten wir um Anmeldung an: info@bibliothek-oechslin.ch.
S U N D A Y , 2 6 J U N E 2 0 1 6
I. Göttliches / Heiliges: Sakramente und Hostie
9.15 Round Table: Einführung mit Axel Christoph Gampp, Stefan Kummer, Werner Oechslin, Tristan Weddigen
9.50 Piet Lombaerde (Universität Antwerpen), Statues of the saints as mirrors of divine light in Jesuit Baroque architecture in the Southern Netherlands
10.30 Kaffeepause
11.00 Evangelia Papoulia (University of London), Pope Gregory XIII’s Staging of the Sacraments in the Lateran
11.40 Helen Boessenecker (Universität Bonn), Heiligenstatuen und “early christian revival”. Zur (Re-)Inszenierung des Heiligen in der römischen Altarskulptur um 1600
12.20 Reinhard Gruhl (Universität Hamburg), Frühneuzeitlich-calvinistische Kultanalyse und Kultkritik in Rivets großem Exodus-Kommentar
13.00 Mittagspause
14.30 Steffen Zierholz (Universität Bern), Bild und Rahmen. Zu Berninis Hauptaltar in Sant’Andrea al Quirinale in Rom
15.10 Tobias Glitsch (RWTH Aachen), Die Sakralisierung des Messgeschehens im Altarraum von S. Andrea al Quirinale
15.50 Kaffeepause
16.20 Mirjam Brandt (Universität Bonn), Gloriosa Antiquitas – Zur Wertschätzung mittelalterlicher vasa sacra im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
17.00 Mateusz Kapustka (Universität Zürich), Barocke Bildgeometrie der Hostie?
18.30 Gemeinsames Abendessen
M O N D A Y , 2 7 J U N E 2 0 1 6
II. Apparate / Maschinen / Theater
9.00 Johannes Gebhardt (Universität Leipzig/Biblioteca Hertziana Rom), Apparitio Sacri – Occultatio Operis: Zeigen und Verbergen von Kultbildern im Italien des 17. Jahrhunderts
9.40 Ria Fabri (Universität Antwerpen), Staging the sacred: Mechanical systems and a hidden theatre in the Antwerp Jesuit church
10.20 Kaffeepause
10.50 Noria K. Litaker (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), From Bits to Bodies: The Construction and Presentation of Whole-Body Catacomb Saints in Baroque Bavaria
11.30 Jens Niebaum (Universität Münster), “Plus Ultra”: Figuration des Heiligen an der Fassade der Wiener Karlskirche
12.10 Léon Lock (Leuven), Renewing devotional practices in Antwerp in the late 17th century: The role of sculpted saints
13.00 Mittagspause
14.30 Verena Villiger (Museum für Kunst und Geschichte Freiburg), Arbeit an der Inszenierung: Der Maler Hans Fries entwickelt ein Marienbild (um 1504/05)
15.10 Nina Niedermeier (Universität München), Filippo Neri umarmt Ignatius von Loyola – die strahlende Seele als Zeichen von Heiligkeit
15.50 Kaffeepause
16.20 Susanne Lang (Darmstadt), “also reden die Altär und Bildnussen” vom Sterben des Hl. Franz Xaver – zum Beispiel in Rastatt
17.00 Sabrina Leps (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), Die Inszenierung des Heiligen Franz Xaver in der protestantischen Diaspora
17.50 Führung durch die Bibliothek
19.00 Gemeinsames Abendessen
T U E S D A Y , 2 8 J U N E 2 0 1 6
Day-long excursions to Hergiswald, Blatten, Lucerne, Sachseln, Beckenried, and Gersau
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III. Das Innen und Aussen des Heiligen
9.30 Lorenzo Santoro (Università della Calabria, Arcavacata), Giovanni Battista Guadagnini’s Critique of Via Crucis: The Question of the Station of the Cross Ritual in the Italian Late Enlightenment
10.10 Matija Jerkovic (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rom), Sacred Art and Its Liturgical Staging: Reliquary Bust of Saint Stephen of Hungary
10.50 Kaffeepause
11.20 Stephan Boll (Universität Stuttgart), Santa Rosalia von Palermo: Die Inszenierung einer neuen „alten“ Heiligen im Barock
12.00 Marek Pučalík (Karlsuniversität Prag), “Catholische Vergötterung des Heiligen Johann von Nepomuck“: Eine unbekannte Beschreibung der Triumphpforten zur Feier der Kanonisation des hl. Johann Nepomuk in Prag (1730)
13.00 Mittagspause
14.30 Barbara Lawatsch-Melton (Emory University, Atlanta), Celebrating Sanctity at Nonnenberg Abbey (1622–1682): Observing and Transcending Boundaries
15.10 Claire Guinomet (Humboldt-Forum Berlin), Die Inszenierung des Heiligen am Beispiel des Tempietto-Tabernakels im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
15.50 Kaffeepause
16.20 Peter Heinrich Jahn (TU Dresden), Evozierte Sakralität in profanem Kontext – Inszenierungen der polnischen Königswürde in den Dresdner Residenzschlossplanungen des Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
17.00 Virgil Pop (Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca), The Restorations of Medieval Churches in Transylvania in the Age of Baroque
T H U R S D A Y , 3 0 J U N E 2 0 1 6
IV. Orte und Wege
9.30 Thomas Wilke (Stuttgart), Das Turiner Grabtuch – die „Staatsreliquie“ der Savoyer
10.10 Silvia Tammaro (Universität Wien), Die Edicola del Santissimo Sacramento von Turin und ihre Darstellung im Theatrum Sabaudiae
10.50 Kaffeepause
11.20 Madleine Skarda (Universität Zürich), “Heiliger Weeg von Prag nach Alt-Bunzlau”: Die Nischenkapellen auf dem Weg zur Martyrienstätte des Heiligen Wenzelsplatz in Stará Boleslav
12.00 Kerstin Borchhardt (Universität Leipzig), Die göttliche Kausalität der Radiolarien-Ikonen: Ernst Haeckels Ästhetik und Inszenierung seiner monistischen Weltformel
13.00 Mittagspause
14.30 Stephan Wyss (Marly FR), Die Inszenierung des Heiligen in umgekehrter Perspektive. – Kunst und Theologie, Pavel Florenskij und Martin Buber
15.10 Joris van Gastel (Bibliotheca Hertziana Rom), Dressing Up the Holy: Stoffwechsel and Ephemerality in Baroque Naples
15.50 Kaffeepause
16.20 Jürgen Müller (TU Dresden), Caravaggio und das Heilige
17.00 Werner Oechslin (Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Einsiedeln), Afterthought: „die historische Construction des Christenthums“
18.30 Abschiedsabendessen
Conference | Auricular Style: Frames
From the conference website:
Auricular Style: Frames
The Wallace Collection, London, 5–6 October 2016
Organized by Gerry Alabone and Lynn Roberts
This two-day international conference is the first dedicated to the Auricular style, centring on one of its most significant manifestations, the picture frame. The conference aims to stimulate awareness and study of this important but neglected style by bringing together research in fine and decorative art histories. Speakers from Europe, UK, and USA will consider the origins and development of the Auricular style in different materials, including silver, wood, stucco, and leather. Papers will explore how other areas of the decorative and applied arts fed into the creation of picture frames. They will examine the influence of prints, drawings, ad the style’s dissemination between European centres in Bohemia, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Britain. Poster presentations will be exhibited during the conference. These will be edited with the papers and published, fully illustrated, for free download on Auricular Style: Frames—which, it is hoped, will become a hub for future related research.
Early bird registration is now open. Early bird ticket prices (including Eventbrite’s commission): £100 regular, £90 Icon members, £50 students (ID to be shown at conference). Early bird option ends and prices rise after 30 June. The theatre’s capacity is 150; therefore, early registration is recommended. No refunds will be made after 23 September. If you do not wish your email address to be included in the Delegates list, please contact the event coordinator at gdsg.events@gmail.com.
Convenors: Gerry Alabone (Tate / City and Guilds of London Art School) and Lynn Roberts (The Frame Blog) in association with the Institute of Conservation (Gilding and Decorative Surfaces Group).
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9.00 Registration and coffee
• On the Inception of Auricular Ornament: Paulus van Vianen’s Metamorphic Bodies and the Fleshy Frame (Allison Stielau, McGill University)
• Object Bodies, Metal Mounts and the Skins of Things (Anna Grasskamp, Heidelberg University)
Coffee
• A French Auricular? A Brief History of a Style (Marika Knowles, Harvard University)
• German Knorpelwerk: Auricular Dissemination in Prints, Woodcarving, Stucco and Painted Wall Decorations, 1620–1670 (Daniela Roberts, Würzburg University)
• The Auricular Style in Dutch Furniture (Reinier Baarsen, Leiden University / Rijksmuseum)
Lunch break
• Gilt Leather: A Creative Industry avant la lettre (Eloy Koldeweij, Cultural Heritage Agency, the Netherlands)
• Material Research on Auricular Frames in the Netherlands (Hubert Baija, Rijksmuseum)
• The Auricular Frame Depicted in Paintings (Lynn Roberts, The Frame Blog)
Tea
• Between Amsterdam, Paderborn and Rome: A Remarkable Frame in the Collections of the Louvre (Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau, Louvre)
• Dutch Auricular Woodcarving (Ada de Wit, Radboud University / Wallace Collection)
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9.55 Welcome and introduction
• The Development of an Auricular Style in Florence (Adriana Turpin, Institut d’Études Supèrieures des Arts)
• Anthropomorphism and Zoomorphism in the Medici Picture Frames (Marilena Mosco, former Director of Palazzo Pitti)
Coffee
• Florentine Auricular Frames: Techniques and Aesthetics (Aviv Fürst, Palazzo Pitti)
• Documenting Developments in the Taste for Auricular Framing in England, 1620–1700 (Jacob Simon, National Portrait Gallery)
• Looking at Material and Visual Evidence of English Auricular Frames (Gerry Alabone, Tate / City and Guilds of London Art School)
Lunch break
• An Auricular Frame amongst the Founder’s Collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Tim Newbery and Jevon Thistlewood, Ashmolean Museum)
• Picture Galleries in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Honorary Professor Karen Hearn, University College London)
• Notes on the Revival of the Auricular Style for Picture Frames (Christopher Rowell, National Trust)
Tea
• The Auricular Today: Putting an Ear to the Ground (Steve Shriver, art+works)
• Panel discussion with all speakers (to finish at 5.00pm)
Conference | The Staircase in Europe, 1450–1800
From H-ArtHist:
Rencontres européennes d’architecture
L’escalier en Europe: Formes, fonctions, décors, 1450–1800
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 9–11 June 2016
J E U D I , 9 J U I N 2 0 1 6
9.30 Accueil des participants
9.45 Introduction
10.00 Première Session: La Renaissance (1)
Président : Jean Guillaume
• Krista de Jonge (Université de Leuven), « L’escalier à la Renaissance : les anciens Pays-Bas revisités »
• Stephan Hoppe (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), « New standards of social climbing. Staircases in Rennaissance Germany »
• Renate Leggatt-Hofer (Federal Monuments Authority Austria-Bundesdenkmalamt, Wien), « Imperial staircase-architecture within the residences of Ferdinand Ist (1521–1564) : Some bold experiments »
13.30 Deuxième Session: La Renaissance (2)
Président : Alexandre Gady
• Marco Rosario Nobile (Università Palermo), « Scale a chiocciola « imperiali ». Due esempi a Malta e in Sicilia »
• Fernando Marias (universidad Complutense, Madrid), « Scala in Spania en longue durée : disegno e stereotomia »
• Nunos Sensos (universidad nova de Lisboa), « L’escalier au Portugal (XVe–XVIIIe s.) »
• Pascal Julien (université de Toulouse II), « Escaliers sculptés de la Renaissance française »
V E N D R E D I , 1 0 J U I N 2 0 1 6
9.30 Troisième Session: Les temps modernes (1)
Président : Basile Baudez
• Gordon Higott (Historien de l’architecture), « Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren et l’escalier en vis à jour central en Angleterre, 1616 – c.1720 »
• Konrad Ottenheym (Utrecht University), « Les escaliers monumentaux dans les palais XVIIe de la cour d’Orange »
• Richard Biegel (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague), « L’escalier des temps modernes en Bohème ? »
• Daniela del Pesco (università Roma III), « Escaliers à Naples au XVIIIe siècle: les ‘scale aperte’ »
14.30 Quatrième Session: Les temps modernes (2)
Président : Emmanuel Lurin
• Christina Strück (Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nurenberg), « Stagecraft and stairways. Monumental 17th- and 18th-century staircases in Germany »
• Jorge Fernandez-Santos (ETSA, Universidad San Jorge, Saragosse), « Les escaliers entre tradition et académie dans l’Espagne du XVIIIe siècle : un classicisme oblique ? »
• Stefano Piazza (Università di Palermo), « Les escaliers des palais siciliens du XVIIIe siècle »
S A M E D I , 1 1 J U I N 2 0 1 6
9.30 Cinquième Session: études de cas
Président : Pascal Julien
• Guillaume Fonkenell (Musée national de la Renaissance, Ecouen), « Ecouen. Un château d’escaliers »
• Alexandre Gady (Paris-Sorbonne, Centre Chastel), « Du bon usage du vide central. Les escaliers de Versailles »
• Paolo Corniglia (Politecnico di Torino), « Des marches qui ne portent nulle part. Le grand escalier de Juvarra au palais royal inachevé de Rivoli »
12.00 Conclusions, par Claude Mignot
Conference | The Art Market, Collectors, and Agents
From the Seminar on Collecting and Display:
The Art Market, Collectors, and Agents: Then and Now
The Warburg Institute, London, 13 July 2016
Registration due by 11 July 2016
Organized by the Collecting and Display Seminar Group, which is based at the Institute of Historical Research in London. For booking, please email agent.candd2016@gmail.com. A further 2-day conference will take place in Paris in October 2016.
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.15 Introduction
10.30 Session I
• Annemarie Jordan Gschwend — Statesman, Art Agent and Connoisseur: Hans Kevenhüller, Imperial Ambassador at the Court of Philip II of Spain
• Taryn Marie Zarrillo — Marco Boschini and Paolo del Sera: Art Dealers, Advisors and Associates in Seicento Venice
• Michael Wenzel — Sales Strategies of Philipp Hainhofer’s Art Cabinets: The Self-Marketing of Artworks in Early Seventeenth-Century Germany
• Sandra van Ginhoven — The Business Strategies of Guilliam Forchondt’s Art Dealership in Antwerp, 1643–78
• Ulf R. Hansson — ‘An Oracle for Collectors’: Philipp von Stosch and the Collecting and Dealing in Antiquities in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome and Florence
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 2
• Maria Celeste Cola — Scottish Agents in Rome in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Peter Grant
• Christine Godfroy-Gallardo — Establishing Honest Trading Relationships: The Guillaume Martin Case
• Robert Skwirblies — Edward Solly, Felice Cartoni and Their Purchases of Paintings: A ‘Milord’ and His ‘Commissioner’ Creating a Transnational Network of Dealers, ca. 1820
• Lukas Fuchsgruber — Otto Mündler, 9 rue Laval, Paris
• Lynn Catterson — The Mysterious Maurice de Bosdari, a Would-Be Agent of Stefano Borden
16.30 Tea
17.30 Session 3
• Julie Codell — Agent-Scholar Martin Birnbaum (1878–1970): Modernizing the Agent
• Nicola Foster — The Case of Uli Sigg: Collector, Agent, Advisor and Promoter of Contemporary Chinese Art
18.30 Keynote Lecture
• Sophie Raux — Mapping the Agents of the Art Market in Early Modern Europe: An Experimental Research Database
19.15 Reception
Conference | Becoming Roman: Artistic Immigration
From H-ArtHist:
Becoming Roman: Artistic Immigration in the
Urbe from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
The British School at Rome, 20 May 2016
Organized by Ariane Varela Braga and Thomas-Leo True
Questions of artistic travel and mobility have been the focus of recent scholarly attention. Rome’s special status as caput mundi and the opportunities it provided as a cultural centre have attracted migrant artists from the Renaissance to the present day.
This conference addresses the issue of mobility from a novel perspective, by concentrating on case-studies of artists—or groups of artists—that not only travelled to, but settled in, Rome and examines issues of mobility, artistic exchange and cultural transfer, patronage and professional networks, cultural identity, and strategies for integration or voluntary exclusion from the local artistic life. When (and how) do foreign artists become Roman artists? What is the role played by social and institutional networks for their integration? How does the process of integration evolve and modify over time? For what sort of clientele (particularly foreign or local) do foreign artists work? How do foreign artist interact with the local artistic environment? How does their activity shape questions of Romanitas or Roman cultural identity?
The conference is an initiative of the Rome Art History Network (RAHN), an independent and international network, based in Rome, which encourages the exchange of ideas between researchers from foreign academies and Italian universities, at an early stage of their career.
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P R O G R A M M E
9:30 Welcome by Thomas-Leo True (BSR)
9:40 Introduction by Ariane Varela Braga (RAHN/University of Zurich)
10:00 Session 1 | Dynamics of Settlement and Integration: Studying Foreign Artists in Rome
Chair: Francesca Cappelletti (Università degli studi di Ferrara)
• Patrizia Cavazzini (BSR), La popolazione dei pittori a Roma nel Cinquecento
• Laura Bartoni (Universita Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno), Artisti stranieri nella Roma del Seicento tra fortuna e fallimento
• Gilles Montègre (Université de Grenoble Alpes), Sono stranieri o diventati romani ? Indagare sugli artisti e residenti francesi nella Roma settecentesca
11:40 Break
12:00 Session 2 | Networks and Socio-institutional Connections
Chair: Raffaella Morselli (Università degli Studi di Teramo)
• Piers Baker-Bates (The Open University), Tierra Tan Extraña: Spanish artists in sixteenth-century Rome
• Elisabeth Kieven (Bibliotheca Hertziana-Istituto Max Planck per la Storia dell‘Arte), Becoming successfully Roman: the case of Gaspar van Wittel (1653–1736)
13:40 Lunch
15:00 Session 3 | Cosmopolitan Circles
Chair: Sarah Linford (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma)
• Anna Frasca-Rath (Universität Wien), Antonio Canova ed i borsisti internazionali a Roma
• Sarah Kinzel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Patrons, parties, priceless portraits: Franz von Lenbach’s network in Rome
16:10 Break
16:30 Session 4 | Out of Time: The Choice of Rome
Chair: Laura Iamurri (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
• Anna Vyazentseva (Università dell’Insubria), Alcuni artisti e architetti Russi a Roma nel Primo Novecento: le questioni dell’integrazione
• Peter Benson Miller (American Academy in Rome), Resident/Alien: American artists in postwar Rome
18:00 Evening Lecture
• Irene Fosi (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara), Roma in età moderna: un mosaico di ‘nationes’
Conference | Imagining Apocalypse
John Martin, The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1822
(London: Tate)
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From the conference website:
Imagining Apocalypse
Radcliffe Humanities Building, University of Oxford, 18 June 2016
Organised in collaboration with Dr Catherine Redford, the theme of this year’s RECSO conference is Imagining Apocalypse and will be held on 18th June. 2016 is a key anniversary for scholars studying long eighteenth-century depictions of apocalypse as it marks two hundred years since the famous ‘year without a summer’ of 1816, when the skies went dark and there was widespread speculation that the end of the world was nigh. This conference will allow a varied group of scholars working in the field of long eighteenth-century apocalypse studies to share their current research, giving them the chance to consider collaboratively current trends and research in apocalypse studies and to look forward to future projects. The project will ultimately encourage a more interdisciplinary approach to apocalypse studies.
Bringing together academics from across English, History, History of Art, Modern Languages, and Theology, the conference will introduce participants to the richness of apocalypse studies across a range of disciplines, both enhancing their research and laying the foundations for future projects, publications, and collaborations. A plenary lecture will be given by Professor Fiona Stafford (Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford). Following the conference, a showcase of musical and literary performances will take place at St George’s Crypt, Oxford Castle. Registration is now open; see the conference website for further details.
Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford (RECSO) is a graduate-led initiative for scholars across the Humanities Division. Our aim is to provide a platform for graduates and academics from various disciplines to discuss and share their research into the long eighteenth century. It also facilitates the development of projects, workshops and larger events, as well as providing a physical meeting space for RECSO’s growing body of members.
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P R O G R A M M E
9.30 Registration
10.15 Welcome and introduction by Catherine Redford and Emily Knight, University of Oxford
10.30 Morning Session
Panel A: The Eighteenth-Century Apocalyptic Imagination: The Interpretative Landscape
Chair: Amelia Greene
• Jonathan Downing, University of Bristol: ‘The Commentators’ Apocalypse: The Interpretation of Biblical Eschatology in Eighteenth-Century Popular Commentaries’
• Stephen Bygrave, University of Southampton: ‘Improvement and Apocalypse: Joseph Priestley’s Rhetoric in the 1790s’
Panel B: The Last Man
Chair: Eva-Charlotta Mebius
• Claire Sheridan, University of Greenwich: ‘Apocalypse as Domestic Melodrama: Dibdin Pitt’s The Last Man; or, the Miser of Eltham Green’
• Audrey Borowski, University of Oxford: ‘The Strange Indetermination of Cousin de Grainville’s “Last Man”’
• Adrian Tait, Independent Scholar: ‘Intimations of Apocalypse: From Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to M. P. Shiel’s The Purple Cloud’
12.00 Lunch
12.45 Afternoon Session, Part I
Panel A: Revelation/Revelations
Chair: Christian Zolles
• Natasha O’Hear, University of St Andrews: ‘Four Become One: The Preoccupation with the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse in the Eighteenth Century’
• Joanna Raisbeck, University of Oxford: ‘The Post-Kantian Apocalypse: Revelatory Visions in Jean Paul and Karoline von Günderrode’
• Randall Reinhard, University of Edinburgh: ‘The Revelation of Edward Irving: The Apocalypse as Social Criticism’
Panel B: Secular Apocalypse: Nature and the Human
Chair: TBC
• Amelia Greene, City University of New York: ‘Uncovered Earth: Scaled Apocalypse in John Clare’
• Lucia Scigliano, Durham University: ‘“What faith is crushed, what empires bleed”: Apocalypse and Nature in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Hellas’
• Adam D. J. Laity, University of the West of England: ‘The Last Man, the Rückenfigur and Mad Max: Romantic Subjectivism and “the human” within the Apocalyptic Sublime Landscape’
2.15 Tea and coffee
2.45 Afternoon Session, Part II
Panel A: Ruin and Catastrophe
Chair: Audrey Borowski
• Jessica Stacey, King’s College London: ‘Apocalypse of Meaning: Catastrophes of Language in Eighteenth-Century France’
• Thomas Moynihan, University of Oxford: ‘Human Extinction and Romanticism: The Intellectual Discovery of the End of Thought’
• Helen Slaney, University of Oxford: ‘Original Ruins’
Panel B: Apocalyptic Afterlives
Chair: TBC
• Christian Zolles, University of Vienna: ‘Modern Apocalypse in Reverse: Edgar Allan Poe’s Dialogue The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)’
• Tom Bromwell, University of York: ‘A Sublime Armageddon: First World War Artists and the Burkean Sublime’
• Catherine Redford, University of Oxford: ‘From Mary Shelley to H. G. Wells: The Romantic Last Man Reimagined’
4.15 Plenary lecture
• Fiona Stafford, University of Oxford: ‘Barkless, branchless, blighted: Alpine Apocalypse in 1816’
5.15 Closing remarks; walk to Oxford Castle
6.15 Showcase in St. George’s Crypt, Oxford Castle: A selection of musical and literary imaginings of the Last Man on earth from the Romantic period.
7.00 Dinner
Conference | Making Britain Modern
From The Courtauld:
Conference in Celebration of Professor David H. Solkin: Making Britain Modern
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London, 2 July 2016
Organized by Katie Scott
Thomas Rowlandson, The Exhibition Stare-Case, Somerset House, Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, ca. 1800 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)
This conference will celebrate the scholarship of Professor David H. Solkin and his outstanding contribution to the study of British art. Convening a younger generation of academics and curators whose work has been marked by David Solkin’s teaching and writing, the day will encapsulate the diverse ways in which his call for a trenchant social history of eighteenth-century British art has been answered.
The title Making Britain Modern alludes to David Solkin’s profound and wide-ranging engagement with the years between the Glorious Revolution and the death of George IV, a period in which the nation’s visual culture was transformed by broader ‘modernising’ processes of commercialisation, industrialisation and overseas expansion. Through extensive original research, acute dialectic analysis and incisive argumentation, Solkin’s historiography has advocated enquiry that is sensitive to the impact of broader social and political change on the era’s artists and artworks, and its public and commercial institutions. Thanks to an important corpus of monographs, essays, and ground-breaking exhibition catalogues, David Solkin has taught a whole generation of researchers how rigorous scholarship can be used to conjure a vivid impression of this transformational moment in British art and to restore the social significance of forgotten paintings, revising the standard account of such eminences as Richard Wilson, Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth, Joseph Wright of Derby, and J.M.W. Turner in the process.
Making Britain Modern will offer a series of presentations on subjects and questions that are also themes current in David’s work. Dian Kriz takes up the issue of the portrayal of heroic masculinity as repurposed for contemporary colonial Jamaica. Violence is also a theme for Meredith Gamer and Joseph Monteyne, as spectacle of execution in the case of the former and as Gillray’s practice of etching in the case of the latter. In counterpoint, Matthew Hargraves considers narratives of modern sentiment in religious painting, while John Chu explores Constable’s sketches of the polite and leisured in commercial society. Questions of invention and experimentation in the context of industrialisation are raised by Richard Johns through a consideration of Wedgwood’s jasperware. Finally, Kate Grandjouan broaches the remaking of national identity in the context of British ascendency in Europe. The programme will open with a conversation between Martin Myrone and David Solkin, which explores the themes of his writing and the range of his contribution. A pop-up exhibition of works in the Courtauld Gallery, curated by Mark Hallett, will provide an opportunity to inspect important examples of the kinds of British drawings, watercolours, and prints which have been subjects of David Solkin’s research and teaching, but also allude to his long-standing activities as a collector. Sarah Monks will offer a summation of the day and consider what it conveys about his on-going impact to British art studies.
P R O G R A M M E
9.00 Registration
9.25 Welcome by Alixe Bovey (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
9.30 Martin Myrone (Tate Britain) in conversation with David Solkin
10.00 Meredith Gamer (Columbia University): The ‘Fine Art’ of Execution in Eighteenth-Century Britain
10.30 Kate Grandjouan (independent scholar): French Disruption: Alterity and the Satirical Print
11.00 Tea / coffee break
11.30 Matthew Hargraves (Yale Center for British Art): Devotions in Doncaster: Francis Hayman’s Good Samaritan
12.00 Richard Johns (University of York): The Trials of Josiah Wedgwood
12.30 Discussion and questions
13.00 Lunch break and pop-up exhibition in Prints and Drawings’ Room at The Courtauld Gallery curated by Mark Hallett
15.00 Joseph Monteyne (University of British Columbia): The Eye Under Attack: James Gillray’s Violent Ground of the Image
15.30 Dian Kriz (Brown University): A Military Artist Takes on the Indies: Abraham James and the Colonial Display of Martial Masculinity
16.00 Discussion and questions
16.30 Tea / coffee break
17.00 John Chu (National Trust; The Courtauld Institute of Art): Drawn Indoors: John Constable’s Idle Works
17.30 Sarah Monks (University of East Anglia): Summation and Discussion
18.00 Reception
Symposium | IFA and The Frick Host History of Art Symposium
This weekend’s symposium includes two papers on the eighteenth century; the full program is available as a PDF file here. Details are also available from The Frick Collection.
A Symposium on the History of Art
The Institute of Fine Arts of New York University (Friday) and The Frick Collection (Saturday), 15–16 April 2016
Friday, 15 April, 3:20pm, “‘An Event Like a Ritual’: Representative Fictions in The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull” Abigail Glogower, University of Rochester
Saturday, 16 April, 10:00am, “Seductive Surfaces in Anne Vallayer Coster’s Still Life with Seashells and Coral (1769)” Kelsey Brosnan, Rutgers University
Conference | Transforming Topography
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From The Paul Mellon Centre:
Transforming Topography
The British Library, London, 6 May 2016
A conference, organised by The British Library and The Paul Mellon Centre, that promises to shed new light and fresh insights on the field of topography and on The British Library’s collection
Topography is an emerging and dynamic field in cultural and art historical scholarship. The British Library holds an extensive and extremely fine collection of place-related material including topographical views, travel diaries, and antiquarian texts, amassed by distinguished collectors such as Charles I and II, Hans Sloane, and not least George III. The Transforming Topography conference is one element of an on-going research project which aims to explore The British Library’s topographic collections in the light of current research. George III’s topographical collection—estimated at 40,000 maps and views—is currently being catalogued and digitised with a new web space due in 2017. With talks delivered by both established and emerging scholars, the day will end with a chaired panel discussion, addressing the matter of ‘topography now’ in art history, cultural geography, and other disciplines. Ticket prices: £20 (full price, adult), £16 (senior citizens), £14 (students).
P R O G R A M M E
9:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome by Kristian Jensen (Head of Collections and Curation, British Library)
10:05 Introduction by Mark Hallett (Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) and Felicity Myrone (Lead Curator, Western Prints and Drawings, British Library)
10:15 Session One
Chaired by Finola O’Kane Crimmins (University College Dublin)
Daniel Maudlin (University of Plymouth), A Narrow View of Nature: The Natural World Experienced through Early Modern Itineraries, Travel Maps, and Inns
This paper will consider how the road-building boom of Georgian Britain and British America transformed actual and imaginative experiences of travel. Drawing on the Library’s collection of contemporary travel aids, it will address how travel was recast as a distinctly linear experience: how printed itineraries and route maps presented a modern world defined by mobility but which reduced nature to a strip, experienced through a succession of views from a carriage window.
Kelly Presutti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Louis Garneray and Topographical Painting as Border Control
Ports were one of the earliest sites depicted topographically in fine art; the practice was institutionalized in France in 1817 when Louis Garneray (1783–1857) was named official painter to the navy. His Vues des côtes de France in the British Library’s King’s Topographical Collection reveal how topography was deployed as an instrument of state formation and as a means to secure the nation at the site where it is most vulnerable—its borders. Garneray’s work was also widely disseminated in various formats, and in ways which transcended historical divisions between fine and decorative arts, such as a porcelain service produced at the state-sponsored Sèvres manufactory.
11.15 Coffee
11:45 Session Two
Chaired by John Bonehill (University of Glasgow)
Matthew Sangster (University of Birmingham), Accumulating London
How did the topographical series produced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries seek to encompass and explain the rapidly-expanding metropolis of London? During this period, advances in print technologies, growing audiences and the interventions of clever entrepreneurs led to an unprecedented burgeoning of city images. As a legacy of past productions piled up, authors, artists and publishers began to cater to different constituencies by offering increasingly specialised versions of London. This talk will consider the contrasting ways in which these works organised, selected from and represented the city by employing digital methods and historical plans to display the geographical and cultural patterns that they trace.
Jenny Gaschke (Bristol Museum and Art Gallery), ‘Available for Useful Purposes’: The Braikenridge Collection of Topographical Drawings in Bristol
The antiquarian collector George Weare Braikenridge (1775–1856) brought together vast numbers of objects relating to Bristol’s history and keenly collected and commissioned views of Bristol, its harbour and environs. The Braikenridge collection will be evaluated within the wider practice of antiquarianism, and will also be situated within the development of British landscape art during the first half of the nineteenth century. Can the Braikenridge collection also shed light on how ‘topography’ is defined in the museum and art gallery, via collecting policies, storage, access, display, interpretation and research?
12.45 Lunch
13:45 Session Three
Chaired by Martin Postle (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Mikael Ahlund (Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum), Topography, Iron-Making, and National Identity: A British–Swedish Comparison
This paper addresses the role British topography played in Scandinavia, paying particular attention to the output of two Swedish artists: Elias (1739–1818) and Johan Fredrik Martin (1755–1816). The brothers worked in London producing topographical images of the British countryside, and moved in the same circles as Paul Sandby. When they returned to Sweden in 1780 they emerged as the country’s leading topographical artists. With recourse to contemporary travel writing, this paper will attempt to identify themes in the brothers’ topographical imagery—themes connected to contemporary debates about national identity, economics, and social order.
Amy Concannon (University of Nottingham / Tate Britain), A Place for the ‘Full Exercise of the Intellectual Powers of a Topographical Writer’: Lambeth’s Topographical Image, ca. 1800–50
With important antiquarian sites like Lambeth Palace and places of popular entertainment like Vauxhall Gardens, the London parish of Lambeth was a rich resource for topographical artists and writers at the turn of the nineteenth century. It was also a landscape in flux: a traditional ‘rural retreat’ on the Surrey side of the Thames undergoing rapid urbanisation. With a particular focus on the work of Lambeth-born topographer Edmund Wedlake Brayley (1773–1854), how did contemporary producers of topographical material—both visual and textual—negotiate the changing landscape of Lambeth?
Lucy Hodgetts (University of York), Topography and Graphic Caricature in Dagaty’s and Rowlandson’s Six Views of Different Entrances to London (1797–98)
From 1797 Rudolph Ackermann published six views of entrances to London after drawings by Rowlandson and Dagaty. They were sold at his Strand gallery, the Repository of Arts. This paper will analyse the social identities of the human figures in the views, their mobility, and how metropolitan topographical settings were employed by artists and writers to comment on contemporary social anxieties. It will also reveal the possible political agendas of a generic cross-over between topography and graphic caricature in visualising politically unstable subjects.
15:15 Tea
15:45 Round Table Discussion: Topography Now
Chaired by Mark Hallett (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Position papers and discussion with Jane Roberts (formerly Royal Collection, Windsor Castle), Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham), John Barrell (Queen Mary, University of London), and Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)
17:00 Conclusion
Symposium | Jesuits and the Arts in China
From the symposium programme:
Jesuits and the Arts in China
Department of Fine Arts, The University of Hong Kong, 11–12 April 2016
A research symposium exploring the role of the Jesuits in the production of art and architecture in China in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong and funded by the Arts Faculty’s Strategic Research Theme in China-West Studies. With no registration necessary, the symposium is free and open to the public. For information, contact Professor Greg Thomas, gmthomas@hku.hk
M O N D A Y , 1 1 A P R I L 2 0 1 6
2:00 Welcome
2:10 Gauvin BAILEY (Queen’s University) keynote talk: The Migration of Forms in the Art of the Jesuit Missions in Japan and China
3:15 Tea break
3:30 SONG Gang (University of Hong Kong): Printing Tianxüe: The Ascendance of Catholic Imprints in 17th-Century China
4:15 QU Yi (Nanjing University of the Arts): Alphabetic Characters in European Images and their Influence in China
T U E S D A Y , 1 2 A P R I L 2 0 1 6
10:00 Greg THOMAS (University of Hong Kong): Religious Negotiation in the Decoration of the Western Palaces at Yuanming Yuan
10:45 CHIU Che Bing (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture and School of Architecture Tianjin): The Jesuits and the Representation of Yuanming Yuan in the West
11:30 Tea break
11:45 YU Pei-chin (National Palace Museum Taipei): Issues Related to the Production of Ceramics as Seen in the Letters of Père François Xavier d’Entrecolles
12:30 Lunch break
2:30 Kee Il CHOI (art consultant, U.S., and University of Warwick): The Talented Mr. Panzi: A Jesuit Painter and His Lamentable Debut at the Qing Court
3:15 Marco MUSILLO (Kunsthistorisches Institut): Global Hagiographies versus Local Praxis: Giuseppe Castiglione in Jesuit History and in the Painting Workshop (1700–1766)
4:00 Reception
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