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Conference | On the Way to the Museum, Ancient Art in Germany

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on March 9, 2013

From Art-Hist:

Interdisziplinäre Tagung: Auf dem Weg zum Museum
Sammlung und Präsentation antiker Kunst an deutschen Fürstenhöfen des 18. Jahrhunderts
Kassel, 19-20 April 2013

Die Erforschung der Geschichte von Museen, ihrer Sammlungen und ihrer Ausstellungspraxis hat in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten signifikant zugenommen und ist inzwischen zu einem eigenständigen fachübergreifenden Forschungsbereich der historischen Kulturwissenschaften geworden. Die interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Tagung „Auf dem Weg ins Museum“ lenkt den Fokus erstmalig gezielt auf den Umgang mit antiker Skulptur und Kleinkunst in fürstlichen Sammlungen des deutschen Sprachraumes im „langen“ 18. Jahrhundert (1700 – 1815). Welche Ordnungsprinzipien und Vermittlungsabsichten kennzeichneten diese Zusammenstellungen von antiken Artefakten vor der Herausbildung einer Systematik der Kunstmuseen im fortgeschritteneren 19. Jahrhundert? Auf welche internationalen Vorbilder reagierten die Verantwortlichen? Welche Modelle stellten die Ergebnisse ihrer Bemühungen für andere europäische Fürstenhöfe und die späteren öffentlichen Museen bereit? Das
Erkenntnisinteresse der Tagung richtet sich somit nicht nur auf die historische Rekonstruktion einer vergangenen Sammlungspraxis, sondern auch auf die grundlegenden Entstehungsbedingungen der Institution Museum, wie sie in wesentlichen Zügen bis in die Gegenwart fortbesteht.

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I. Höfische Antikensammlungen im deutschen Sprachraum im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert
Moderation: Rüdiger Splitter

9.15  Begrüßung/Einführung

9.30  Gisela Bungarten, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel: Die Antikensammlung am Braunschweiger Hof im 18. Jahrhundert

10.15  Kordelia Knoll, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: „mit königlicher Pracht aufgestellt“ – Die Dresdener Antikensammlung im 18. Jahrhundert

11:00  Reinhard Stupperich, Institut für klass. Archäologie, Universität Heidelberg: Das Antiquarium der Mannheimer Akademie

11.45  Pause

12.15  Hildegard Wiegel, Archäologisches Institut, Universität Göttingen: Die Vasensammlung Anna Amalias in Weimar – Aufstellung und Kontext

13:00  Caterina Maderna, Institut für klass. Archäologie, Universität Heidelberg: Die Antikensammlung Franz I. von Erbach zu Erbach

13.45  Mittagspause

II. Das Beispiel der Kasseler Sammlungen
Moderation: Charlotte Schreiter

15:00  Antje Scherner, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel: Kunstkammer, Kunsthaus, Kabinett. Zur Wechselwirkung von Kunstwerk und Sammlungsort im frühen 18. Jahrhundert

15:45  Justus Lange, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel: Das Kasseler Galeriegebäude Landgraf Wilhelm VIII.

16:30  Maximiliane Mohl, Universität Heidelberg: Die Architektur des Museum Fridericianum in Kassel

17:15  Andrea Linnebach, Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, Universität Kassel: Das Publikum der Antike. Kunsthaus und Museum Fridericianum als ein Ziel von Bildungs- und Forschungsreisen der europäischen Aufklärung

18:00  Pause

19:00  Abendvortrag: Gerrit Walther, Neuere Geschichte, Universität Wuppertal: Antikensammlungen als Element eines adligen Kulturhabitus in der Frühen Neuzeit

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III. Antikensammlungen in der literarischen Wahrnehmung um 1800
Moderation: Alexis Joachimides

9:30  Adelheid Müller, Berlin: Strategie und Leidenschaft. Weibliche Wege zur Antikensammlung

10:15  Katharina Krügel, Klassikstiftung Weimar: Sammlungen antiker Abgüsse in Weimar. Orte und Präsentationskonzepte

11:00  Pause

11:30  Christoph Frank, Istituto di Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell´architettura, USI, Mendrisio: Im Schatten Winckelmanns: Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff und Friedrich Rehberg und die Dessau-Wörlitzer Antiken

12:15  Martin Dönike, SFB Transformationen der Antike, HU Berlin: Komplementäre Antiken. Zur kunstgeschichtlichen und-theoretischen Rahmung von Antikensammlungen im goethezeitlichen Weimar

13:00  Mittagspause

IV. Residenz und Museum – Von der höfischen zur musealen Repräsentation
Moderation: Gisela Bungarten

14.15  Bénédicte Savoy, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, TU Berlin: Was kostet die Antike? Preisschätzungen im Inventaire des Musée Napoléon (Louvre) um 1800

15:00  Charlotte Schreiter, LVR-Archäologischer Park Xanten/LVR-RömerMuseum: Repräsentation und Kontext – Antike Plastik und Gipsabgüsse in Sammlungen des 18. Jahrhunderts

15:45  Rüdiger Splitter, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel: Neue Forschungen zur Kasseler „Société des Antiquités“

16:30  Pause

17:00  Helen Dorey, Deputy Director, Soane’s Museum, London: Sir John Soane’s Collections of Antiquities

17:45  Stephan Schröder, Museo del Prado, Madrid: Sammlung und Ausstellung von Antiken in Spanien bis zur Einrichtung des Prado

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Veranstalter: Universität Kassel in Kooperation mit der Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
Ort: Hörsaal der Kunsthochschule Kassel, Menzelstraße 13, 34121 Kassel
Organisation:
Prof. Dr. Alexis Joachimides (Universität Kassel)
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Splitter (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel)
PD Dr. Charlotte Schreiter (LVR-Archäologischer Park Xanten/LVR-RömerMuseum)

Conference | Berlin in 1800

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on March 8, 2013

As noted at Early Modern Architecture:

Die Klassizität des Urbanen. Resümee, Kritik und Fortgang des
Akademienvorhabens “Berliner Klassik”. Eine Großstadtkultur um 1800
Zentrum Preußen-Berlin der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 14-16 März 2013

Veranstalter: Cord Friedrich Berghahn, Conrad Wiedemann
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung

Das Akademienvorhaben “Berliner Klassik. Eine Großstadtkultur um 1800” befasste sich zwölf Jahre lang mit der Rekonstruktion einer urbanen Kulturblüte, die von der Forschung beharrlich ausgeblendet wurde, obwohl sie nach Bedeutung und aktueller Wirkung eigentlich nur mit dem Ereignis Weimar-Jena vergleichbar ist. Hauptgegenstand der Forschungsarbeit waren dabei nicht die bekannten großen Einzelfiguren und Einzelleistungen, sondern die soziokulturellen Rahmenbedingungen (Institutionen, Milieus, Kontroversen), aus denen heraus sich deren Besonderheit versteht. Mit der Tagung wollen wir die Vielfalt der geleisteten Quellen- und Konzeptarbeit festhalten und der öffentlichen Diskussion zuführen. Der Eintritt ist frei. Eine Anmeldung ist erwünscht, bitte schreiben Sie an Christopher Drum (bk-stud@bbaw.de).

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14.00  Günter Stock, Präsident der BBAW, Begrüßung

14.10  Cord Berghahn (Braunschweig), Einleitung

14.25  Conrad Wiedemann (Berlin), “Berliner Klassik” als kulturgeographisches Problem. Zu Absicht und Gang eines abgebrochenen Forschungsprojekts

15.30  Pause

15.45  Klaus Gerlach (Berlin), Das Berliner Nationaltheater – Bühne des klassischen Berlin

16.30  Uta Motschmann (Berlin), Die Berliner Vereine als Laboratorien einer großstädtischen Gesellschaft

17.15  Claudia Sedlarz (Berlin), Berliner Klassizismus und die Berliner Akademie der Künste Ende ca. 18.00 Uhr

20.00  Abendvortrag: Werner Busch (Berlin), Die klassizistische Karikatur. Zu Gottfried Schadows Zeichnungen

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09.00  Walther Gose (Trier), “… dass die gesunde Vernunft immer mehr und mehr auf den Thron aller menschlichen Angelegenheiten erhoben werde”. Die ‘Gesellschaft von Freunden der Aufklärung’ (Geheime Berliner Mittwochsgesellschaft) 1783-1798

09.45  Iwan Michelangelo D’Aprile (Potsdam), “Wissenschaft von heute” Gegenwartsreflexion und Zeitgeschichtsschreibung in Berlin um 1800

10.30  Pause

10.45  Günter Oesterle (Gießen), Popularität – Urbanität – Freiheit: Kunst der Prosa in Berlin um 1800

11.30  Anne Baillot (Berlin), “Der Hauptzweck einer Akademie der Wissenschaften muss dieser sein, Unternehmungen zu machen und Arbeiten zu liefern, welche kein Einzelner leisten kann” – August Boeckh als Projekt

12.15  Mittagspause

14.00  Cord Berghahn (Berlin), Karl Philipp Moritz’ zirkumpolare Wirkung in Berlin

14.45  Hans-Georg von Arburg (Lausanne), Zur Architekturästhetik von Karl Philipp Moritz und ihren Folgen für
einen klassisch gewordenen Epochenbegriff

15.30  Pause

15.45  Christoph Wingertszahn (Düsseldorf), Die Stadt als Schwall. Karl Philipp Moritz als Zeitungsschreiber

16:30  Matthias Hahn (Berlin), Ein Neuerer der Innendekoration: Louis Catel, Architekt, Berlin, Weimar

17.15  Harald Tausch (Gießen), Gießen oder Berlin. Ortsnamen aus der Sicht eines Berliner Spätromantikers

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09.00  Ute Tintemann (Berlin), Isaac Azulay alias Joseph Leonini (1769 – 1840): Ein italienischer Sprachmeister in Berlin

09.45  Jürgen Trabant (Berlin), Der fremde Mund. Über Individualität und Alterität bei Wilhelm von Humboldt

10.30  Pause

10.45  Felix Saure (Hamburg), Wilhelm von Humboldt und Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

11.30  Laurenz Lütteken (Zürich), Konstruktionen der Klassik. Schwierigkeiten im Umgang mit einem musikhistorischen Problem

12.15  Abschlusspanel, Moderation Günter Oesterle

Works in Progress from The Met’s Fellow Program

Posted in conferences (to attend), lectures (to attend) by Editor on March 7, 2013

A series of colloquia take place from 26 February to 30 April 2013. On Tuesday, 9 April, Donato Esposito is scheduled to speak on Reynolds’s collection in the nineteenth-century. The full schedule is available (as a PDF) here»

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The Metropolitan Museum’s Fellowship Colloquium
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 9 April 2013

The Fellowship Program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art cordially invites you to attend colloquia on works in progress by art history, conservation, and scientific research fellows. The following talks will be held in Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. These colloquia are made possible in part by Mrs. Henry S. Blackwood.

Moderator: Xavier F. Salomon, Curator, European Paintings

Circle of Titian (c.1485/80-1576), Putto holding the base of a cross. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Rogers Fund, 1911).

Circle of Titian, Putto Holding the Base of a Cross (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1911). Part of the collection of Joshua Reynolds in the eighteenth century.

10:00  Ronda Kasl (Chester Dale Fellow, European Paintings), “Miquel Alcanyís and Gherardo Starnina: Two Altarpieces from the Valencian Church of San Juan del Hospital”
10:30  Linda Borean (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, European Paintings), “Self-Portraits and Portraits of Artists in Seicento Venice”
11:00  Valeria De Lucca (Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Musical Instruments), “Roman Heroes / Roman Patrons: Constructing Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century Rome”

Intermission

11:45  Furio Rinaldi (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Drawings and Prints), “Timoteo Viti (1469/70–1523): An Artist and Collector in the Footsteps of Raphael”
12:15  Donato Esposito (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Drawings and Prints), “‘Many Curious and Valuable Things’: Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Collection in Nineteenth-Century New York”
12:45  Allen Doyle (Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Robert Lehman Collection), “Michelangelo as Bad Object: Horace
Vernet’s Renaissance”

Symposium | Architect as Furniture Designer

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on February 11, 2013

From RIBA:

Symposium of the Furniture History Society: The Architect as Furniture Designer
The Wallace Collection, London, 9 March 2013

FlyerThe 37th Annual Symposium of the Furniture History Society in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects

The subject of architects designing furniture, for their own buildings or for commercial sale, was first investigated by Charles Handley-Read in the 1960s in his researches into 19th-century architects and interiors. However, there have been few attempts to take a broad look at the subject since the exhibition and associated catalogue by Jill Lever in the RIBA Heinz Gallery in 1982.

This symposium brings together a number of distinguished scholars and curators to speak on architects from the 18th century to the 21st century and their moveable contributions to the interiors of their buildings. The sessions will be chaired by Charles Hind, Chief Curator, RIBA Library and Julius Bryant, Keeper of the Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.

S P E A K E R S

Susan Weber (Director, Bard Graduate Center, New York), The Furniture of William Kent
John Harris (Curator Emeritus, Drawings Collection, RIBA Library), Sir William Chambers and the French Connection
James Yorke (Furniture Historian), H.W. Inwood (1794-1843), the Erectheion and the Grecian Furniture of St Pancras Church
Max Donnelly (Curator of 19th-Century Furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum), John Pollard Seddon and the Medieval Court of 1862
Matthew Williams (Curator, Cardiff Castle), William Burges and the Marquess of Bute: The Furniture at Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch
Irena Murray (Sir Banister Fletcher Director and Research Director, British Architectural Library), Modern Movement Furniture in Central Europe between the Two World Wars
Alan Powers (School of Architecture, Design and Construction, University of Greenwich), The Furniture of Raymond Erith (1904-73)
Abraham Thomas (Curator of Designs, Victoria and Albert Museum), Contemporary Architects and Limited Edition Furniture

Tickets must be purchased in advance and early booking is recommended. Fee: £40 for FHS and RIBA members (£35 for FHS / RIBA student members and FHS / RIBA OAP’s) All non-members £45.Ticket price includes morning coffee and afternoon tea. A light lunch will be available for FHS members in the Meeting Room at the Wallace Collection at a cost of £20 to include a glass of wine. Tickets for lunch must be purchased at least 7 days in advance from the Events Secretary. The Wallace Collection Restaurant will be open for bookings (Tel: 0207 563 9505) and there are plenty of local cafes/restaurants. All ticket bookings must be made via the Events Secretary, e-mail events@furniturehistorysociety.org, www. furniturehistorysociety.org.

Conference | Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on February 10, 2013

Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, 10-11 May 2013

Mounted Vase

Mounted Vase, Chinese porcelain ca. 1662–1722, French mounts, ca. 1745–49. J. Paul Getty Museum (79.DI.121.1)

The Getty Research Institute and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute are co-sponsoring a two-day conference, “Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World,” on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, 2013, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.

An international group of scholars will examine the circulation of objects across regions and cultures in the early modern period (1500-1800), addressing the ways in which mobility led to new meanings, uses, and interpretations. Break-out sessions will invite the audience to consider these questions as we examine objects from the Getty’s collections. A closing roundtable will provide an opportunity to discuss the methodological and theoretical potential of this line of inquiry for the study and teaching of art history. The symposium is organized by Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California), Meredith Martin (Wellesley College), and Joanne Pillsbury (Getty Research Institute).

Vallard Atlas (detail), 1547. Courtesy of the Huntington Library (HM29.f12)

Vallard Atlas (detail), 1547. Courtesy of the Huntington Library (HM29.f12)

Admission to this event is free. Reservations are required and can be made online when the website goes live in early March. Graduate students writing dissertations on related subjects can apply for a limited number of travel grants to defray the cost of travel to the conference. To request an application, email emsi@usc.edu. Applications will be due March 1, 2013.

The flyer (as a PDF) is available here»

Note (added 6 March) — Confirmed speakers include:

Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen’s University, Ontario
Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
Zirwat Chowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles
Chanchal Dadlani, Wake Forest University
Jessica Keating, University of Southern California
Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
Meredith Martin, Wellesley College
Sandy Prita Meier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Avinoam Shalem, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
Mary Sheriff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Claudia Swan, Northwestern University
Nancy Um, Binghamton University
Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence

Conference | Loyal Subversion: Anglo-Hanoverian Caricature

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on February 8, 2013

The third Herrenhausen Symposium addresses caricature within the context of Anglo-Hanoverian relations (with plenty more such observances on the way next year) . . .

Loyal Subversion: Caricatures from the Personal Union between England and Hanover, 1714-1837
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, 21-23 February 2013

The political constellation of the personal union between England and Hanover with the figure of a foreign king as a mediator between separate states became a determining factor and was in itself a historical condition for the emergence and the development of caricatures in England after the Glorious Revolution. As a political weapon of the opposition and as a manifestation of public opinion, the caricatures affected the establishment: one the one hand, their visual potential was a threat to the sovereign, on the other hand they helped to stabilize his leadership. What contents do they show? Does the artistic become political? Is there something like an institutionalized form of political perception? Or is this visual criticism nothing else but a loyal subversion of their subjects?

The Herrenhäuser Symposium Loyal Subversion: Caricatures from the Personal Union between England and Hanover 1714-1837 is organized by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für
Karikatur und Zeichenkunst. Please register online at caricature@volkswagenstiftung.de.

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Wilhelm Busch — Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst

7:00  Gisela Vetter-Liebenow (Director, Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst) and Wilhelm Krull (Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation), Opening Addresses

7:20  Werner Busch (Department of Art History, Free University of Berlin), Keynote Lecture

9:00  Reception

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Herrenhausen Palace

9:30  Images and Caricatures of Kingship

• Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton, London), Milton’s Monsters: Monarchy and Iconoclasm

• Sheila O’Connell (Assistant Keeper, British Prints before 1880, British Museum), Attacks on the Guelph Dynasty: From the Jacobite Caricatures to the London Radicals and Cruikshank

11:00  Coffee

11:30  Images and Caricatures of Kingship, continued

• Christina Oberstebrink (Berlin), James Gillray

• Brian Maidment (John Moores University, Liverpool), The Satirical Image, Politics, and Periodicals, 1830–37

1:00  Lunch

2:30  Royal Representation, Court Culture, and Bourgeois Public

• Sune Schlitte (University of Göttingen), Politics Beyond Caricature: Practices of the Artistic Field in the Long Eighteenth Century

• James Baker (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), The Royal Brat: Making Fun of George Augustus Frederick

4:00  Coffee

4:30  Counterparts

• Karl Janke (Curator, Hamburg), The Republic and the Sovereignty of the People as Antithesis, Anathema, Frightful Vision

• Temi Odumosu (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, The Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen), The Image of the Other: The ‘Non-English’ as Identification Marks in the Personal Union

7:00  Conference Dinner

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Herrenhausen Palace

9:30  The Reception on the Continent

• Timothy Clayton (Worcester College Oxford), Transfer of Caricatures: The London Printing Trade and the Export of English Graphic Prints

10:30  Coffee Break

11:00  The Reception on the Continent, continued

• Thomas Schwark (Historical Museum Hanover), Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763-1840): Painter, Borderliner, and
Contemporary with the Nascent Hanover Kingdom

• Christian Deuling (MA, University of Nottingham), The Reception of English and French Caricatures in the German Magazine London und Paris (1798-1815)

12:30  Wilhelm Krull (Secretary General, VolkswagenStiftung), Closing Remarks

12:40  Lunch

Conference | Inter-Culture 1400–1850: Art, Artists, and Migration

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on January 30, 2013

From Liverpool Hope University:

Inter-Culture 1400–1850: Art, Artists, and Migration
Liverpool Hope University, 5-6 April 2013

While major exhibitions, such as Migrations – Journeys into British Art (January – August 2012) at Tate Britain, address the impact of migration on the cultural heritage and artistic production in a particular country, the conference seeks to investigate further this exciting topic by discussing thematically the latest research of international scholars. Instead of focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries and the strong consequences migration caused in modern and postmodern societies, we intend to look back and explore the effects of migration on art and artists in Europe and beyond before, during and shortly after the Industrial Revolution.

Why have artists left their comfort zone, travelled to faraway places and adapted to new living conditions when only very few had a noteworthy impact on local artistic production, such as Hans Holbein the Younger at Henry VIII’s court or El Greco, who is the prime example for intercultural artistic exchange in early modern times? How important was national identity for the artists and also for the reception of their work? What are the differences and parallels between pre- and post-Industrial Revolution migration of artists?

If you would like to register for the conference, please find a registration form on the website www.hope.ac.uk/inter-culture/

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8.00  Registration/Refreshments

9.00  Welcome, Professor Kenneth Newport, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Liverpool Hope University)

9.30  Keynote Lecture, Professor Eberhard König (Free University Berlin)

10.15  Guest talk, Tim Batchelor (Tate Britain London, Co-curator of Migrations – Journeys into British Art)

11.00  Coffee Break

11.30  Section 1: Old versus New Society – Artists’ Perceptions

• Anette Schaffer (The Warburg Institute, London), El Greco: Reviewing the Question of Early Modern Artistic Eccentricity

• Stephanie Porras (Tulane University, New Orleans), The Real, Rejected and Virtual Travels of Marten de Vos

• Gitta Ho (Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris), German Art Pupils in Paris, 1793-1843

1.00  Lunch

2.00  Section 2: New Environments and Influences on Artistic Practices

• Silvia Ferreira (University of Lisbon), From Stone to Wood: Claude Laprade and His Journey from Provence to Portugal

• Clemence Matthieu (Clare Hall, Cambridge), Cultures of Exchange: The Architecture of the Low Countries and Southern England in the 16th century

• Matej Klemencic (University of Ljubljana), Venetian Sculptors of the 18th Century in Habsburg Lands: Francesco Robba, Antonio Corradini and Giovanni Marchiori

3.30  Coffee

4.00  Section 3: Cultural Confrontations

• Natasha Eaton (University City of London), Subaltern Colour? Between the Global and the Local in Britain and India

• Jessica David (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven), Johan Zoffany’s Painting Practice in Kolkata and Lucknow: The Technical Exploration of an ad hoc Studio

• Katelyn Crawford (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington), John Greenwood, Portraiture, and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1752-72

6.30  Conference Dinner

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9.00  Keynote Lecture, Professor Fintan Cullen (University of Nottingham), Migrating Objects: Ireland and Empire

10.00  Section 4: Forced Migration and Its Resistance

• Julia Crispin (University of Münster), French Manuscript Illumination between Propaganda and Pragmatism: The Talbot Workshop in Rouen and Its Patrons during the Last Stages of the Hundred Years’ War

• Frederica Van Dam (Ghent University), Tableau Poetique: A Recently Discovered Manuscript by the Flemish Migrant Painter-Poet Lucas de Heere (1534-84)

• Gerrit Walczak (Technical University Berlin), Mutual Irritations: Migrant Artists in London during the French Revolution

12.00  Visit the Walker Art Gallery

1.00  Lunch

2.30  Section 5: The Returned Artist

• Kathrin Wagner (Liverpool Hope University), Malversation, Escape, Return: The Sculptor Hans Hesse from Luebeck and His Temporary Migration to Dalarna, Sweden, 1457-58

• Fiona V. Salvesen Murrell (University of Aberdeen), The Returned Artist: American Lessons Learned: Shaping the New Scottish Academy from 1826

• Laura MacCulloch (Royal Holloway, University of London), Revaluating the Outsider: Ford Madox Brown and Cultural Dialogues in mid-19th-century Europe

3.30  Coffee

4.00  Final Remarks

ASECS 2013, Cleveland

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on January 28, 2013

2013 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
Cleveland, 3-6 April 2013

Cleveland RenaissanceThe 2013 ASECS conference takes place in Cleveland, April 3-6, at the Marriott’s Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. This year’s annual HECAA luncheon and business meeting will be held on Friday at The Greenhouse Tavern. In terms of sessions, HECAA will be represented by two panels, just before lunch, chaired by Christopher Johns and Heather McPherson. In addition to these, a selection of sessions are also included below (of the 201 panels scheduled, many others will, of course, interest HECAA members). For the full program, see the ASECS website.

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Anne Schroder New Scholar’s Session
Friday, 5 April 2013, 9:45-11:15, Van Aken
Chair: Christopher M. S. JOHNS, Vanderbilt University
1. Katherine MCHALE, Independent Scholar, “The Madonnas of Settecento Venice: A Tradition Renewed”
2. Ji YOU, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Sèvres Porcelain during the French Revolution”
3. Lindsay DUNN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Constructing an Imperial Identity: Marie-Louise, House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Dynastic Capital”
4. Karissa BUSHMAN, Augustana College, “Memorializing Fear and Abuse: Goya’s Depiction of the Inquisition in Los Caprichos

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Interiors as Space and Image
Friday, 5 April 2013, 11:30-1:00, Halle
Chair: Heather MCPHERSON, University of Alabama, Birmingham
1. Elizabeth F. JUDGE, University of Ottawa, “Eighteenth-Century Court Interiors and the Architecture of Credibility”
2. Edward HOULE, McGill University, “Discriminating Dining: Louis XV’s Salles à manger at Versailles”
3. Sally GRANT, University of Sydney, “Questioning Interiority/Exteriority in the Decorative Design of Giandomenico Tiepolo’s ‘Room of the Carnival Scenes’ at the Villa Valmarana ‘ai Nani’”
4. Esther GABEL, University of Cambridge, “The Portego: Spaces of Presentation and Performance in Eighteenth-Century Venice”

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CAA 2013, New York

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on January 11, 2013

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NYC from the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, 2 September 2007
(Photo by AngMoKio, Wikimedia Commons)

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The 2013 College Art Association conference takes place in New York, February 13-16. HECAA will be represented by two panels on Friday, chaired by Hector Reyes and Amelia Rauser. Other sessions that may be of interest for dixhuitièmistes are also listed. A full schedule of panels is available here»

H E C A A  S E S S I O N S

Art in the Age of Philosophy?
Friday, February 15, 9:30-12:00, Nassau Suite
Chair: Hector Reyes (University of California, Los Angeles)

  1. Anne Betty Weinshenker (Montclair State University), The Allegorical Tomb of Locke, Boyle, and Sydenham: A Celebration of Empiricism
  2. Stephanie O’Rourke (Columbia University), Faithful Impressions: Fuseli, Lavater, and the Physiognomic Pursuit of Knowledge
  3. Ryan Whyte (Ontario College of Art and Design University), Happy Fathers and Other New Ideas in French Art: Genre, Masculinity, and Philosophy in the Final Decades of the Old Regime
  4. Lauren Cannady (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Aesthetic Discourse in Science: The Rococo and the Natural World
  5. Johanna Fassl (Franklin College Switzerland), Radical Thought: Connecting Guardi, Newton, Vico, and Damasio

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New Scholars Session: International Artists Working in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain
Friday, February 15, 12:30-2:00, Rendezvous Trianon
Chair: Amelia Rauser (Franklin and Marshall College)

  1. Francesca Whitlum-Cooper (Courtauld Institute of Art), Quacks, Peddlers, and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702–89) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715–83) in London
  2. Katherine McHale (Hunter College, City University of New York), The Bel Composto: The Role of Inset Paintings in Robert Adam’s Interiors
  3. Abram Fox (University of Maryland), Family, Students, and Legacy: Benjamin West’s Workshop and the Shaping of an American School of Art

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Conference | European Portrait Miniatures

Posted in books, catalogues, conferences (to attend) by Editor on January 4, 2013

European Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions and Collections
Celle Castle, Celle, Germany, 25-27 January 2013

121655The conference is being held on the occasion of the opening of the fifth exhibition of the Tansey Collection and the publication of the accompanying catalogue Miniatures from the Time of Marie-Antoinette in the Tansey Collection on 25 January 2013.

Admission is free. Celle Castle as well as the Bomann-Museum nearby are within walking distance (20 minutes) from Celle railway station. Trains from Hannover take approximately 25 to 45 minutes (Deutsche Bahn, Metronom or S-Bahn). For more information and for registration, please contact bernd.pappe@miniaturen-tansey.de.

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F R I D A Y ,  2 5  J A N U A R Y  2 0 1 3

16:30  Opening of the exhibition Miniatures from the Time of Marie-Antoinette in the Tansey Collection

18:00  Visit of the exhibition and reception at the Bomann-Museum Celle

19:30  Dinner

S A T U R D A Y ,  2 6  J A N U A R Y  2 0 1 3

Objects, Agencies, and Social Practices

9:00  Marcia POINTON (Manchester), Intimacy, Exclusion and Revelation: The Portrait Miniature as Image and Object, ca. 1640-1800

9:30  Bert WATTEEUW (Antwerp), Miniature Dramas: The Portrait Miniature as a Literary Motif in Early Modern European Drama

10:00  Discussion

10:15  Coffee

Politics and Representation

10:45  Vanessa REMINGTON (London), ‘Philistines or Connoisseurs?’: The Collecting of Miniatures by the Early Hanoverians at the English Court, 1714-1760

11:15  Karin SCHRADER (Bad Nauheim), Between Representation and Intimacy: The Portrait Miniatures of the Georgian Queens

11:45  Friederike DRINKUTH (Schwerin), Intimacy and Ancestry: A Dynastic Souvenir for Queen Charlotte

12:15  Discussion

12:30  Lunch

13:45  Laurent HUGUES (Nîmes), The Commissions of Miniatures of the Royal Family from France According to the Archival Sources, 1725-1792

14:15  Sarah GRANT (London), Miniatures of the Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792): The Portraiture, Patronage and Politics of a Royal Favourite

14:45  Sigrid RUBY (Gießen/Saarbrücken), Love Affairs with the Founding Father: Portrait Miniatures of George Washington – Modes of Creation and Display

15:15  Discussion

15:30  Coffee

European Miniature Collections (part I)

16:00  Stephen LLOYD (Edinburgh), A Group of Miniatures by Jacob van Doordt (fl. 1606 – d. 1629) in the Buccleuch Collection

16:30 Thierry JAEGY (Paris), Masterpieces of Miniature Painting in French Private Collections

17:00  Markus MILLER (Eichenzell), The Collection of Portrait Miniatures of the Landgraves and Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt

Andreas DOBLER (Eichenzell), The Miniature Collection of Empress Friedrich in Castle Fasanerie

17:45  Discussion

19:30  Dinner

S U N D A Y ,  2 7  J A N U A R Y  2 0 1 3

European Miniature Collections (part II)

9:00  Elizaveta ABRAMOVA (Saint Petersburg), The Collection of Miniatures from the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

9:30  Izabela WIERCZINSKA (Warsaw), The Enchantment of History: Selected Masterpieces from the Miniatures Collection of the Great Dukes of Hesse and by Rhine

10:00  Discussion

10:15  Coffee

10:45  Astrid SCHERP (Munich), The Collection of Portrait Miniatures of Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658-1716)

11:15  Lucyna LENCZNAROWICZ and Danuta GODYN (Cracow), The Highlights of the Miniatures Collection at the National Museum in Cracow

11:45  Discussion

12:00  Lunch

Techniques and Materials

13:15  Emma RUTHERFORD (London), The Plumbago Portrait in Britain

13:45  Julia SEDDA (Berlin), Silhouettes: The Fashionable Paper Portrait Miniature around 1800

14:15  Discussion

Miniature Painters

14:30  Nathalie LEMOINE-BOUCHARD (Paris), Charles-Paul-Jérôme de Bréa (1739-1820) and his Work in Miniature

15:00  Coffee

15:30  Catherine DE LEUSSE (Paris), Mme. Herbelin, a Miniaturist of the July Monarchy and of the Second Empire

16:00  Roger and Carmela ARTURI PHILLIPS (Ferndown, Dorset), Miniature Painting in the 20th Century

16:30  Discussion

16:45  Closing Remarks

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From Artbooks.com:

Catalogue: Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten and Bernd Pappe, Miniaturen der Zeit Marie Antoinettes aus der Sammlung Tansey / Miniatures from the Time of Marie Antoinette in the Tansey Collection (Munich: Hirmer, 2013), 500 pages, ISBN: 978-3777490212, $105.

The Tansey miniatures, now housed in the Bomann Museum in Celle, form one of the most significant collections of European miniature paintings. Miniatures from the Time of Marie Antoinette in the Tansey Collection is the fifth book in a series exploring this collection by key periods; 168 works, mostly by French artists, are examined in actual size using the outstanding photographs of Birgitt Schmedding. The final 50 years of the 18th century constituted one of the most magnificent periods in the art of miniature painting, with regard to both style and technique. The artists, who produced these portraits for private gifts, not only excelled in applying watercolours to ivory, but also expressed great ingenuity in their representations of affection and love. The authors Bernd Pappe and Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, both renowned connoisseurs in this field, detail and analyse each work. Introductory essays by leading specialists provide further insights into this fascinating time for miniature painting. The Tansey Collection, started about thirty years ago by the German-American couple Lieselotte and Ernest Tansey, was donated in part to the Bomann Museum in Celle 1997.