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From the conference flyer (with more information about The Luigi Marchese project available here). . .

Luigi Marchesi (1754–1829): “L’ Oceano dei soprani” carriera di un evirato cantore
Casa Natale di Gaetano Donizetti, Bergamo, 16-17 October 2015

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14.00 Apertura dei lavori
Interventi di benvenuto ed introduzione
• Damien Colas (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Alla ricerca delle esecuzioni perdute: come far rivivere oggi l’arte di Luigi Marchesi?
• Lorenzo Mattei (Università degli Studi ‘Aldo Moro’, Bari), La mia Cecchina è un castrato! L’opera buffa degli evirati cantori
• Teresa M. Gialdroni (Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’)
• Giulia Giovani (Centro Studi sulla Cantata Italiana), Luigi Marchesi a Roma: echi nella stampa coeva
• Paola De Simone (Conservatorio ‘C. G. da Venosa’, Potenza), Mito e storia per una voce alla corte di Napoli: Luigi Marchesi nei ruoli di Amore e Arbace nella stagione 1780–1781 al Real Teatro di San Carlo
• Lucio Tufano (Napoli), Marchesi in concerto
• Nastasja Gandolfo (Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg), Il ruolo di Luigi Marchesi nell’Ezio di Josef Mysliveček per la corte elettorale di Monaco (1777)
• Annarita Colturato (Università degli Studi di Torino), Luigi Marchesi musico soprano a corte
• Luca Benedetti (Bergamo)
• Federico Zavanelli (Cremona), Comunicazioni bibliografiche: aggiornamenti da Bergamo e Londra

18.00  Villa Facheris, Inzago, Milano
Aperitivo presso la Villa Facheris e visita alla mostra ivi dedicata a Marchesi. Visita della villa appartenuta al cantante. Cena dei convegnisti e degli sponsor presso il ristorante Enotavola Pietra- santa in Treviglio (Bergamo).

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9.30 Presiede: Giulia Giovani
• Nicholas Baragwanath (University of Nottingham), Alla ricerca dell’arte d’improvvisare di Marchesi: le revisioni per il debutto londinese nel ruolo di Giulio Sabino (1788)
• Simone Laghi (University of Cardiff), Le esibizioni di Luigi Marchesi a Londra (1788-1790): i castrati e il true taste
• Giovanni Polin (Conservatorio ‘C. G. da Venosa’, Potenza), «Sempre uguale a sé stesso nel dilettare e sorpren- dere»: note sulla carriera veneta di Luigi Marchesi
• Marilena Laterza (Università degli Studi di Milano), «Arietta grata che intorno spiri»: Luigi Marchesi compositore
• Livio Aragona (Fondazione Donizetti, Bergamo)
• Rosa Cafiero (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Da Lodoiska a Lovinski: Camilla Balsamini nei panni di Marchesi
• Giacomo Sances (Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’), «Il nostro amicone Zingaro deve essere superbo d’un così bravo scolare». Luigi Marchesi e il suo «veridico sentimento» per Bellini

15.00  Presiede: Claudio Toscani (Università degli studi di Milano)
• Marco Beghelli (Università degli Studi di Bologna), «Nella sua voce fa sentire tre voci diverse»: la voce multipla dei castrati
• Roberto Scoccimarro (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln), Luigi Marchesi nel ruolo di Achille: Ifigenia in Aulide e Achille in Sciro
• Paolo Russo (Università degli Studi di Parma) Marchesi, il ‘disertore’
• Livio Marcaletti (Universität Bern), Le «variazioni» di Luigi Marchesi: trascrizioni di un’esecuzione o esercizi didattici?
• Stefano Aresi (Stile Galante, Amsterdam), Gli abbellimenti vocali di Luigi Marchesi: possibili approcci alle fonti

From the symposium programme:

Penser le Rococo (XVIIIe–XXIe siècles) / Reconsidering the Rococo
Université de Lausanne, 5–6 November 2015

Le rococo, en dépit de la méfiance ou de l’ironie qu’il suscite, occupe une place centrale dans l’historiographie. En tant que catégorie stylistique et critique, il structure notre appréhension de l’art du XVIIIe siècle et détermine le regard que l’on porte sur celui-ci. Ce colloque, conçu en écho aux stimulantes recherches de ces vingt dernières années sur le rococo, vise à développer une réflexion épistémologique sur une notion protéiforme. La perspective privilégée pour ce colloque est celle, critique, de l’étude d’une notion devenue catégorie, le rococo, appelant à réfléchir sur son apparition, sa sédimentation, sa diffusion. Quelles sont les premières formulations de ce terme ? Sur quels présupposés se fonde-t-il ? Comment devient-il un canon formel et esthétique ? De quelles sources se nourrit-il ? En fonction de quels enjeux établit-on les frontières et les corpus du rococo ? Comment la situation d’énonciation des exégètes, aux XIXe, XXe et XXIe siècles, a-t-elle orienté la mise en récit de son histoire ? Comment les idées véhiculées dans leurs travaux agissent-elles sur la production tardive d’objets imitant le XVIIIe siècle ? Comment ces revivals agissent-ils en retour sur notre compréhension du rococo ?

Despite the scepticism or irony which it provokes, the notion of the Rococo occupies a central position within the historiography of 18th-century art. It structures our understanding of this epoch and determines the way in which we see it. This symposium, planned as an answer to the stimulating research of the last twenty years on the Rococo, aims at an epistemological reflection on a protean notion which was progressively defined as a style during the 19th century. This symposium therefore favours a critical approach to this notion, urging contributors to reconsider how it emerged, how it was formed and diffused. What were the first manifestations of the Rococo, on what preconceived ideas was it founded, and how did it become a formal and aesthetic canon? Which sources did it draw upon? What ideas and categories have been used to structure it? How were the boundaries of the Rococo established? How has the context in which interpreters have written about the Rococo oriented the formulation of narratives during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries? How have the ideas upon which their work is founded inflected the production of imitations of 18th-century objects? How have these revivals, in turn, acted upon our understanding of the Rococo?

Organisation scientifique
Carl Magnusson (Université de Lausanne)
Marie-Pauline Martin (Aix-Marseille Université, UMR 7303 TELEMME-CNRS)

Comité scientifique
Jan Blanc (Université de Genève), Frédéric Dassas (Musée du Louvre), Michaël Decrossas (INHA, Paris), Peter Fuhring (Fondation Custodia, Paris), Christian Michel (Université de Lausanne)

Organisation logistique et contact
Geneviève Dutoit (Université de Lausanne) / genevieve.dutoit@unil.ch

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8.30  Accueil

8.45  Introduction par Carl MAGNUSSON et Marie-Pauline MARTIN

9.00  1 | Les champs du rococo, du décor à la sculpture
Président de séance : Peter Fuhring
• Carl MAGNUSSON (Université de Lausanne)—Le rococo, style «décoratif» par excellence
• David PULLINS (Harvard University)—«Quelques misérables places à remplir» : locating chantourné painting in eighteenth-century France
• Malcolm BAKER (University of California)—Reconsidering ‘Rococo’ sculpture

14.00  2 | Pertinence d’une catégorie ?
Président de séance : Frédéric Dassas
• Fabrice MOULIN (Université de Paris X-Nanterre)—Les « mauvais choix » en art et en amour : le rococo mis en fiction dans L’homme du monde éclairé par les arts (1773)
• Marie-Pauline MARTIN (Université d’Aix-Marseille)—Du sobriquet à la catégorie de style
• Floriane DAGUISÉ (Université de Paris-Sorbonne)—De l’usage du rococo dans la recherche en littérature
• Elisabeth FRITZ (Friedrich-Schiller-Unversität Jena)—La fête galante : un genre paradigmatique dans le discours ambigu du rococo

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9.00  3 | Mécanismes et composantes du rococo
Présidence de séance : Cyril Lécosse
• Bérangère POULAIN (Université de Genève)—Rococo et fugacité du regard: émergence et modifications de la notion de ‘papillotage’ (XVIIIe–XXIe siècle)
• Melissa HYDE (University of Florida)—Déjà-vu All Over Again ? Rococo, Then and Now
• Aleksandra WOJDA (Université Jagellon, Cracovie)—Du romantique au penseur d’un rococo moderne : Gautier et les ambiguïtés de la concrétion esthétique

14.00  4 | Les géographies éclatées du rococo
Président de séance : Christian Michel
• Jean-François BÉDARD (Syracuse University)—Fiske Kimball, diffuseur de la rocaille
• Étienne TORNIER (Université de Paris X-Nanterre / University of Minnesota)—Rococo revival ou l’élaboration du goût et du style américain (1850–1900)
• Raul C. SAMPAIO LOPES (Seoul National University)—Ce que l’historiographie des manifestations périphériques du rococo nous dit sur la construction de cette notion stylistique

17.30  Discussion et conclusions

From the symposium website:

Asian Gardens in the West
Haus der Universität Düsseldorf and Benrath Palace, Düsseldorf, 1–3 October 2015

Organized by the Department of Japanese Studies, University of Düsseldorf, and the Benrath Palace and Park Foundation

Many people in the West believe that Asian gardens are mystic places indicating a very special and subtle understanding of nature and a refined aestheticism. The symposium traces the history of these notions back to the 18th and 19th centuries and shows how Western and Asian pundits, gardeners and officials together created these visions of Asian gardens. We also ask about current trends in building and interpreting Asian gardens in the West.

Japanese gardens come to mind as a prime example of Asian gardens in the West as they are one of the strongest symbols for Japan. Their long-lasting fashion started in the second half of the 19th century because Japanese governments used gardens to represent the country at world’s fairs, albeit with no clear comprehension of the concept of a ‘Japanese garden’. Only through the international appreciation did the Japanese begin to fully understand the merit of gardens for self-representation. As a consequence Japanese garden experts created a canonized idea of the aesthetic arrangement of Japanese gardens.

However, Japanese gardens are not the only example of the spatial staging of a national Asian identity. Already in the 18th century, Chinese garden art had become fashionable in Europe. Yet Chinese gardeners and garden experts were only very marginally involved in this vogue. Western garden enthusiasts—mostly aristocrats—built Chinese gardens following accounts of Asia which were written by Jesuits and merchants. In the last three to four decades many Chinese gardens have been built in North America and Europe once again.

As leading Asian countries, China and Japan are role models for self-representation through cultural diplomacy. Thus Chinese and Japanese gardens incite other Asian countries as well as Western garden experts to build Korean, Indonesian and Indian gardens.

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13:30  Introduction

14:00  Address by Vice President for International Relations, Andrea von Hülsen-Esch

14:20  Stefan Schweizer, Gardens and National Stereotypes

15:15  Panel I | China / The Representation of Asian Gardens in Asia
• James Bartos, China, Chinoiserie, and the English Landscape Garden Revisited
• Bianca Maria Rinaldi, The Invention of the Chinese Garden
• Christof Baier, Heritage Gardens: Singapore’s Asian Garden Representation at Gardens by the Bay as Third Space?

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9:00  Excursion to the Japanese Garden in Leverkusen

13:30  Panel II | India
• Karin Seeber, Imaginary Gardens: Marie Luise Gothein’s Book on Indian Garden History (1926)
• Henry J. Noltie, The Indian Career of Hugh Cleghorn (1820–1895): Economic Botany and the Transfer of Knowledge through Botanical Gardens

15:30  Panel III | Japanese Gardens
• Wybe Kuitert, Context and Praxis: Thoughts on Japan and Gardens
• Tagsold, Christian, Japanese Gardens Unleashed: From Miniatures to Advertising

19:30  Keynote Lecture
John Dixon Hunt, Questions of Authenticity

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10:00  Panel IV | Representing Japanese Gardens
• Katahira Miyuki, Constructing the Image of Japanese Gardens: 
Analysis of the Discourse on Japanese Gardens in Japan and the West
• Elisabeth Scherer, Elaborate ‘Contact Spaces’: Staging Japanese gardens for Cinema

12:00 Final discussion

Abstracts are available here»

From the conference programme:

L’architecture et l’urbanisme des ingénieurs, 1650–1850: Paris, province et capitales européennes
Versailles, Bibliothèque municipale Galerie des Affaires étrangères, 10 October 2015

Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe, Vue de l’accident survenu en 1759 sur le chantier de l’Hôtel des Affaires étrangères et de la Marine à Versailles, 1759, BMV, ©Pierrick Daul

Les années 1980 furent propices à l’étude du travail des ingénieurs : en 1981, Anne Blanchard publiait un Dictionnaire des ingénieurs militaires actifs en France entre 1691 et 1791, témoignant par son volume de l’importance de leur activité, tandis qu’en 1988, Antoine Picon, dans son ouvrage Architectes et ingénieurs au siècle des Lumières, accordait enfin aux ingénieurs des Ponts l’attention qu’ils méritaient et examinait leur formation et leurs méthodes de travail au regard de celles des architectes de l’Académie royale d’architecture.

Au-delà des programmes attendus, fortifications, ouvrages hydrauliques, ponts et routes, les ingénieurs, militaires et des Ponts et Chaussées, honorèrent des commandes dans le domaine de l’architecture publique monumentale, de l’architecture religieuse et hospitalière, mais aussi dans celui de l’architecture domestique et de l’art des jardins.

L’historiographie fait la part belle aux architectes dans les embellissements de la capitale, mais l’action des ingénieurs en matière d’architecture et d’urbanisme reste à évaluer. Cette seconde journée sera l’occasion de présenter les limites de cette opposition architecte/ingénieur et d’initier un travail systématique sur l’activité de ces derniers du règne de Louis XIV à l’aube du Second Empire.

Après une première rencontre dédiée à l’habitat (8 novembre 2014), la seconde journée sera consacrée plus particulièrement au projet urbain et à l’architecture publique monumentale, à Paris, en province et dans les capitales européennes. Une troisième rencontre se déroulera au printemps 2016.

Journée d’études organisée par Basile Baudez, Alexia Lebeurre et Dominique Massounie avec le concours des Universités Bordeaux-Montaigne, Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, Paris-Sorbonne, de la Ville de Versailles et du GHAMU.

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P R O G R A M M E

9.30  Accueil café

10.00  Dominique Massounie (Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre), Pour un inventaire de l’architecture des ingénieurs des Ponts et Chaussées au XVIIIe siècle

10.45  Béatrice Gaillard (LéaV-ENSAV), Le traité de l’ingénieur Antoine d’Alleman à la lumière de sa pratique architecturale

11.15  Robert Carvais (CNRS-CTAD) et Philippe Bernardi (CNRS- Lamop), Un ingénieur au pays de l’architecture. Antoine D’Alleman (1679–1760) et son traité inachevé

12.30  Pause déjeuner

14.00  Aline Lemonnier (GHAMU), Les phares normands de l’ingénieur Duchesne sous Louis XVI

14.30  Théodore Guuinic (Université Paris-Diderot), L’ingénieur Charles-Etienne Durand (1762–1840) : théorie et pratique de l’architecture pratique selon les principes antiques

15.00  Adrián Almoguera (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Ut urbis hortis: que la ville soit à l’image d’un jardin. Les ingénieurs et la transformation urbaine de Madrid au Siècle des Lumières

16.00  Basile Baudez (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Jean-Baptiste Berthier, ingénieur et architecte de l’administration

Visite de la Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles, ancien ministère des Affaires étrangères et de la Marine

Conclusion: Alexia Lebeurre (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne)

This Saturday at Harvard Art Museums:

Material World
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA, 26 September 2015

This one-day symposium considers the historical importance, artistry, and evolution of textiles, within the context of a world where traditional notions of textiles are constantly changing. The event is organized as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Science.

S C H E D U L E

10:30  Welcome and introductory remarks by Georgina Rayner, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science, Harvard Art Museums

10:45  “Mentored by Textiles,” Mary Schoeser, Honorary President, The Textile Society, United Kingdom

11:35  “Textiles Matter: Theory through Practice,” Dinah Eastop, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

12:25  Lunch break

1:50  “My Materials: Clothing, Fabric and Belonging,” Shinique Smith, Contemporary Artist

2:40  “Fashion in the Museum,” Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)

3:30  Break

4:00  “Textile Future: What Is a Textile?,” Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Director of Curatorial and Head of Textiles, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

4:50  Closing Remarks by Narayan Khandekar, Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and Senior Conservation Scientist, Harvard Art Museums

The event will be held in Menschel Hall, Lower Level.

As noted at H-ArtHist:

Du ‘portrait du roi’ aux portraits du Régent: Philippe II d’Orléans, entre pouvoir et légitimité
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 23 September 2015

À l’occasion du tricentenaire de l’avènement de la Régence en septembre 2015, cette journée d’étude est consacrée à la figure de Philippe II d’Orléans (1674–1723). Elle interroge l’image du Régent comme objet de tensions entre représentation politique du pouvoir et quête de légitimité dynastique.

La ‘régence absolue’ fait le lien entre le long règne de Louis XIV et celui, encore naissant, de Louis XV. Existe-t-il un portrait politique du Régent qui s’appuie sur l’iconographie du corps sacré du roi, que ce soit celle de son illustre aïeul comme de celle du jeune souverain mineur ? A contrario, quel rôle a pu jouer la question anthropologique dans la représentation de Philippe d’Orléans qui ne détient aucun pouvoir de droit divin ?

Les organisateurs souhaitent s’appuyer sur cette dualité pour développer une réflexion propre à l’histoire de l’art, dans le cadre spécifique de la représentation visuelle. La question des portraits du Régent sera abordée selon l’angle anthropologique, politique, de la diffusion et de la métaphore.

Comité d’organisation
Étienne Jollet (université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Valentine Toutain-Quittelier (université de Poitiers)

Contact
Valentine Toutain-Quittelier: valentinetoutain@yahoo.fr
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Galerie Colbert – Salle Vasari
2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris
Métro: Bourse ou Palais-Royal-musée du Louvre

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9.30  Accueil des participants

9.40  Ouverture de la journée, Étienne Jollet (université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

9.50  Introduction, Valentine Toutain-Quittelier (université de Poitiers)

10.10  I. TRAITS ET PORTRAITS
Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire: Véronique Meyer (université de Poitiers)
• Christophe Henry (université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Du duc d’Orléans au Régent
• Françoise Joulie (musée du Louvre), Les allégories du Régent

11.10 Pause

11.20  II. L’EXERCICE DU POUVOIR
Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire: Étienne Jollet (université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Valentine Toutain-Quittelier (université de Poitiers), Le Régent et le Dauphin au plafond de la Banque royale: une dualité impossible?
• Christine Gouzi (université Paris IV Sorbonne), Un portrait littéraire du Régent: Philippe II d’Orléans d’après le Dictionnaire des artistes de l’abbé de Fontenai (1776)”

12.30  Déjeuner

14.30  III. CIRCULATION DES MODELES
Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire: Pascal Bertrand (université Bordeaux III)
• Véronique Meyer (université de Poitiers), Portraits gravés du Régent
• Sébastien Bontemps (université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Les portraits sculptés du Régent

15.40  Pause

16.00  IV. DECOR ET METAPHORE
Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire: Étienne Jollet (université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Jean-François Bédard (université de Syracuse, USA), Le Palais-Royal, portrait architectural du Régent
• Michaël Decrossas (INHA), À la gloire du Régent. Projet de décor allégorique pour le château de Saint-Cloud

17.10  Conclusion de la journée, Valentine Toutain-Quittelier (université de Poitiers)

From the symposium flyer:

2015 Fairfax House Georgian Studies Symposium
Retail Realms: Shops, Shoppers and Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Britain, c.1680–1830
York Hilton Hotel and Fairfax House, York, 22–23 October 2015

The long eighteenth century was a transformative age for shops and shopping in Britain. Far-reaching changes took place in the way people shopped, the things they bought, the shops themselves and the ways in which they were run. For an increasing portion of Georgian ‘polite society’, shopping, from being primarily a matter of obtaining the necessities of life, became a pleasurable leisure activity in its own right, associated with sociability, sensory experience and the expression of identity. Many historians who have explored the social and cultural dynamics of shopping in the eighteenth century have argued that this period saw a ‘consumer revolution’.

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9:15  Registration and coffee

9:45  Welcome and introduction by Hannah Phillip (Director, Fairfax House)

10:00  Panel 1: Objects of Desire
• In pursuit of oral perfection: dental retail in the eighteenth century, Rachel Bairsto (British Dental Association Museum)
• Mrs Bowes’ purchases in London, 1743–63, Howard Coutts (The Bowes Museum)
• Marketing quality in eighteenth-century England, Rachael Morton (University of Warwick)
• Shopping for shells, Beth Fowkes Tobin (University of Georgia)

11:40  Keynote Address
Retailing Luxuries: The Deards family’s toyshops in London, Bath and Yorkshire, Vanessa Brett (author of Bertrand’s Toyshop in Bath: Luxury Retailing 1685–1785)

12:30  Lunch break

13:30  Primary Materials: Parallel Discussion Sessions
• Mike Rendell – Richard Hall, Haberdasher, at No 1 London Bridge
• Valerie Jackson-Harris – The eighteenth-century trade card

14:10  Panel 2: The World of Consumption
• In pursuit of pastries, millinery and men: polite female consumption in eighteenth-century Bath, Rose McCormack (Aberystwyth University)
• Shopping for paintings in Georgian Bath, Amina Wright (Holburne Museum)
• A world of goods? Products, promotions and place names in English shops, 1740–1820, Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University)

15:20  Tea

15:40  Panel 3: Retail Environments
• ‘Behind great glass windows, absolutely everything one can think of is neatly, attractively displayed’: foreigners’ accounts of shopping in London, Alison O’Byrne (University of York)
• An ‘elegant, extensive, & convenient shew-room’: the architecture and interior design of the eighteenth-century shop, Ralph Harrington (University of Leeds)
• Antiquity and improvement: polite shopping Georgian York, Matt Jenkins (University of York)

16.50  Day 1 concluding remarks

17:30  Drinks reception and private view of the exhibition Consuming Passions: Luxury Shopping in Georgian Britain.

19:00  Conference dinner

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9:00  Registration

9:30  Panel 4: Branding Advertising, Display
• Josiah Wedgwood I – the salesman, Gaye Blake-Roberts (The Wedgwood Museum)
• Rethinking the eighteenth-century trade card: thoughts on their development, form and function, Elenor Ling (The Fitzwilliam Museum)
• Your humble and obedient servant, Sylvia Hogarth (textiles historian)

10:40  Coffee

11:00  Panel 5: Texts and the Retail Realm
• Catalogues of trivialities? Consumer experience in Austen’s writings, Jane Taylor (University College London)
• ‘Every employment delightful’: shops, self-sufficiency and feminine networks in Frances Burney’s Cecilia (1782) and The Wanderer (1814), Chloe Wigston Smith (University of Georgia)
• Browsing the past: Leigh Hunt and the memorial function of shopping, Markus Poetzsch (Wilfrid Laurier University)

12:20  Lunch break

13:20  Walking Tour: Exploring Georgian York’s Retail Realms

14:30  Keynote Address
Shopping & Sensibility, Helen Berry (Newcastle University)

15:30  Tea

15:50  Panel 6: Beyond Shopping
• ‘…the whole Consumpt of Scotland, or nearly so, has been Smuggled’: how tea smuggled from Gothenburgh dominated the market in the north east of England and Scotland, Derek Janes (University of Exeter)
• ‘Things that are not trifles’: purchasing, pilfering and peddling gloves in eighteenth-century England, Liza Foley (National College of Art and Design, Ireland)
• Sabine Winn and the art of long-distance shopping at Nostell Priory, 1775–1798, Kerry Bristol (University of Leeds)

17:00  Day 2 Concluding remarks

Please note that this programme is provisional and details are subject to change.

From the conference programme (with an English summary). . .

Think ‘Small’: Textual Approaches and Practices of Artistic Miniaturization from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century / Penser le « petit » de l’Antiquité au XIXe siècle: Approches textuelles et pratiques de la miniaturisation artistique
Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès Nouvelle Maison de la Recherche, 1–2 October 2015

From Tanagra statuettes to the automata of the industrial age, there are many material manifestations of the ancient fascination with shapes, images, and tiny objects. Examples abound: carved micro-architectures of Gothic buildings, small engravings by Stefano della Bella or Sébastien Leclerc, eighteenth-century objects of vertu, and the Lilliputian creatures of children’s literature. Rare, however, are the historical sources that allow us to understand their cultural foundations. While the written sources usually consider the ‘small’ only in relationship to the ‘big’, the analysis of the consumption of these objects reveals a set of practical, symbolic, and artistic skills such as manoeuvrability, mobility, economy, poverty, preciousness, thoroughness, prettiness, and strangeness. Too often, the dominant sources focus on the size of the objects, which diminishes the presence of other considerations. At times miniaturization reduces the scale of a given object, while at other times it may be an independent creation governed by specific criteria. Whatever the case, miniaturization is based on a set of justifications, usages, and judgments that this conference aims to clarify.

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Présidence de la journée : Jean-Marie Guillouët (université de Nantes)

9.00  Accueil par Sophie Duhem – Estelle Galbois – Anne Perrin Khelissa (université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès)

9.10  Introduction générale par Jean-Marie Guillouët (université de Nantes)

9.30  Techniques, esthétiques et fonctions du changement d’échelle
• Raffaella Da Vela (université de Bonn), Petit et très petit : miniaturisations des modèles grecs dans les ateliers de potiers et de sculpteurs de Volterra à l’époque hellénistique
• Véronique Sarrazin (université d’Angers), Le « format Collombat », ou comment le petit format d’un modeste livret est devenu une référence de goût et de commodité au XVIIIe siècle
• Cyril Lécosse (université de Lausanne), La vogue des grandes miniatures ou le développement d’une nouvelle catégorie de portrait autour de 1800
• Élodie Voillot (université Paris Ouest Nanterre), Un musée dans chaque foyer : les réductions de sculptures, du grand art au petit bibelot, 1839–1900

12.00  Pause déjeuner

14.00  Luxe, préciosité et réceptions de l’objet minuscule
• Alice Delage (Centre d’Études supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours), La microarchitecture dans l’orfèvrerie florentine : la Renaissance du « petit »
• Rori Bloom (université de Floride), « Voilà mon portrait que je vous donne » : Political, Gallant, and Aesthetic Uses of the Boîte à portrait in Two Seventeenth-Century French Texts
• Michel Sandras (université Paris – Diderot), « Le Poète est ciseleur » (Hugo). Histoire et signification d’un cliché : le terme « ciselé » appliqué au travail de l’écrivain

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Présidence de la journée : Jan Blanc (université de Genève)

9.00  Accueil par Sophie Duhem – Estelle Galbois – Anne Perrin Khelissa (université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès)

9.10  Introduction générale par Jan Blanc (université de Genève)

9.30  Images et représentations du « petit » monde
• François Ripoll (université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès), « Si parua licet componere magnis » (Georg., IV, 176) : la dialectique du grand et du petit dans les chants III et IV des Géorgiques de Virgile
• Vincent Robert-Nicoud (université d’Oxford), Grand débat sur le « petit » monde : l’homme microcosme de Rabelais à Scève
• Sarah Grandin (université d’Harvard), « Cironalité » and Scale in Cyrano de Bergerac’s Les États et Empires de la Lune
• Nathalie Rizzoni (CNRS, université Paris – Sorbonne), « Les petits, toure lourirette / Valent bien les grands » : les enfants comédiens à Paris au XVIIIe siècle

12.00  Pause déjeuner

14.00 Pouvoirs mémoriels de l’objet miniature
• Audrey Dubernet (université Bordeaux – Michel de Montaigne), Souvenir d’une œuvre d’art ; les peintures et sculptures antiques transposées en glyptique
• Manuel Charpy (CNRS, université Lille 3), Fragments et réductions. Petites choses et espaces de l’intimité au XIXe siècle
• Manuel Royo (université François-Rabelais de Tours), Le « grand » dans le « petit », enjeux de la maquette d’architecture : le cas de Rome à la fin du XIXe siècle
• Claire Barbillon (université de Poitiers), Le paradoxe de la monumentalité en format réduit : la statuaire monumentale publique et la carte postale

15.40  Discussion et clôture du colloque

From the Bath Preservation Trust:

Symposium | Small Worlds: Dolls’ Houses from the 18th and 19th Centuries
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, 6 November 2015

Small Worlds, the current exhibition at No.1 Royal Crescent, aims to go beyond showing dolls’ houses simply as exquisite collector’s items by exploring wider themes, such as the part they played in girls’ education and women’s history, links with philanthropy (because toys for wealthy children were often furnished with the labours of the poorest), and their importance as material culture. We are holding a special day symposium to explore further some of these themes.

To be chaired by Adrian Tinniswood and featuring Liza Antrim in conversation with Antique Roadshow’s Fergus Gambon, the event will bring together a panel of speakers who are experts in their fields. Kathryn Jones, Curator of Decorative Arts, the Royal Collection, will talk about Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House while curators from the V&A and the National Trust showcase other national treasures and their links with the English Country House. The idea of dolls houses as ‘emotional objects’ and their connection with philanthropy and the history of childhood is explored by Professor Joanne Bailey of Oxford Brooks and Dr. Mary Claire Martin of Greenwich University, while symbolic inspiration for film and literature, in particular the ghost story and all things gothic, is covered by Lucy Arnold of Leeds University in a splendidly named paper, ‘Shrinking in Terror’!

Tickets: £55, students £35. A limited number of bursary places are available to full or part time students. Click here for a link to our website and a copy of our bursary application form. Lunch and an exhibition drinks reception at No. 1 Royal Crescent is included within the ticket price. If you have any questions about
the symposium please email our Events Officer, Kate Rogers,
krogers@bptrust.org.uk.

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P R O G R A M M E

9.45  Registration

10.00  Welcome from Adrian Tinniswood

10.10  Liza Antrim and Fergus Gambon in conversation

10.40  The Voice of the House: Material Culture and Emotion, Joanne Bailey (Oxford Brooks University)

11.10  Questions

11.30  Coffee

11.45  The Utensil for Marriage? The Dutch Kitchen Cabinet and the Place of Women in the 17th Century, Rachel Barber

12.15  Furnishing the 18th-Century Baby House: A Working Country House in Miniature, Patricia Ferguson (National Trust external advisor on ceramics)

12.45  Questions

1.00  Lunch

2.00  Childhood and Philanthropy in Victorian England, Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich)

2.30  Upstairs, Downstairs: Queen Mary’s Dolls House as a Record of Edwardian England, Kathryn Jones (Curator of Decorative Arts, The Royal Collection)

3.00  Questions

3.15  Tea

3.45  Shrinking in Terror: Gothic and the Dolls House, Lucy Arnold (doctoral student at University of Leeds and administrator of Home, Crisis and the Imagination Network)

4.15  Small Stories: A Collection of Characters at the V&A Museum of Childhood, Alice Sage (Curator, V&A Museum of Childhood)

5.00  Questions

5.20  Summing Up by Adrian Tinniswood

6.00  Drinks reception and opportunity to view the exhibition at No.1 Royal Crescent

From the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art:

The Painting Room: The Artist’s Studio in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London (Thursday), and Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk (Friday), 29–30 October 2015  

This two-day conference, sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, examines the role and character of artists’ painting rooms in the long eighteenth century.  It is organised in association with an exhibition focusing on the painting room that is to be held at Gainsborough’s House between October 2015 and January 2016.

The conference aims to bring together current scholarship on the nature of the painting room, primarily in Britain but also in France, which was a constant model for British artists.  The first day, to be held at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, considers the varying character and function of the painting room in London, Bath and Paris: how it was used, how it was seen by outsiders, and how artists exploited it to create spaces for the display and sale of their work.  Detailed studies of the painting rooms of Joshua Reynolds and Joseph Wright of Derby will help to illustrate these arguments.  The second day of the conference, which will take place at Sudbury, will focus more particularly on the example of Thomas Gainsborough. Speakers will consider technical issues such as the use of materials, lay figures, drapery and costumes within the painting room, together with the role of the copy. This second day will also feature a discussion of the relationship between the painting room and the modern-day artist’s studio.

The aim of the conference as a whole is to explore the distinctive world of the Georgian painting room, and to complement the innovative recreation of such an environment within the exhibition at Gainsborough’s House.

Confirmed Speakers
Mark Bills (Gainsborough’s House)
Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute)
Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes University)
Edwina Ehrman (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Karen Fielder (Portsmouth University)
Rica Jones (Independent Scholar)
Kristina Mandy (Hamilton Kerr Institute)
Peter Moore (Gainsborough’s House)
Jane Munro (Fitzwilliam Museum)
George Shaw (Artist)
Susan Sloman (Independent Scholar)
Hannah Williams (Queen Mary, University of London)
Jonathan Yarker (Lowell Libson Ltd)

Tickets
£30 Standard Ticket (for both days)
£20 Concession Ticket (students and senior citizens, for both days)
Tickets include refreshments, lunch and a drinks reception on both days. Tickets will not be sold separately for each day; attendees must commit to both days.

Please note your ticket does not include your travel to Sudbury on Day 2 and we kindly ask you to make your own way there.  If you are travelling from London to Sudbury, the conference organisers will be travelling on the train stated on the timetable, if you wish to join them.