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Study Day near Paris: Vauban’s Influence on Military Architecture

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on April 20, 2011

From Le Blog de APAHAU:

L’Influence de Vauban dans le Monde
Citadelle d’Arras, 7 July 2011

Vauban n’a jamais publié un traité de la fortification, considérant que, d’une part, « l’art de fortifier ne consistait pas dans des règles et des systèmes mais uniquement dans le bon sens et l’expérience », et d’autre part que, tombée entre les mains des puissances étrangères, une telle publication pourrait être utilisée contre la France. Il accepte cependant, à la demande de Louis XIV, de rédiger deux manuscrits sur l’attaque et la défense des places pour l’instruction du duc de Bourgogne, petit-fils du roi Soleil. Ces deux écrits, achevés en 1704 et 1706, seront imprimés aux Pays-Bas dès 1737. A partir de 1680, la réputation de Vauban en France est telle que ses contemporains commencent à mentionner les apports de Vauban dans les traités de la fortification, soit en les actualisant pour y inclure les innovations apportées par lui, soit en éditant des traités en prétendant livrer les méthodes de Vauban. Dans le monde entier on retrouve des fortifications bastionnées supposées être influencées par la méthode de Vauban, de par leur forme, ou parce que des ingénieurs de l’Europe occidentale ont contribué à leur construction. Cependant, lorsqu’on étudie ces sites de plus près, il s’avère que la filiation n’est pas toujours évidente à établir.

La journée d’étude aura pour objectifs :
1. de déterminer plus précisément par quelles voies l’influence a pu se faire,
2. d’identifier les sites ou secteurs géographiques où l’influence de Vauban est réelle,
3. de préciser quels sont exactement les aspects attribuables à Vauban.
Une première analyse de l’influence de Vauban dans le monde sur l’art de fortifier concernera la façon dont ces traités ont été utilisés à l’étranger. La seconde approche est celle de l’analyse architecturale et technique: quelles formes et quelles méthodes de construction, utilisées au-delà des frontières françaises jusqu’au milieu du XIXe siècle, peuvent être attribuées au grand ingénieur ?

Conference: Britain’s Soldiers, 1750-1815

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on April 19, 2011

From the conference website:

Britain’s Soldiers, 1750-1815
University of Leeds, 7-8 July 2011

Registration is now open for the two-day international conference on Britain’s relationship with its soldiers in the eighteenth century. It brings together an exciting range of over 20 papers into a series of panels, and covers social, cultural, and military history. The presentations cover all aspects of the men from the United Kingdom who served in the military and British attitudes towards them. From the identities and experience to the relationship between soldiers, culture and society. Sessions include:

  • Soldiers and society
  • Discipline and disorder
  • Soldiers in art
  • Identity and the experience of others
  • Sources for studying soldiers

There will also be key note lectures from Professor Stephen Conway and Dr Stephen Brumwell.

Paris Conference: Ugliness in the Eye of the Beholder?

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on April 14, 2011

This study day in Paris (Nanterre) addresses the theme of the aesthetics of ugliness from the Renaissance to the present. The first session is the one that’s relevant to the eighteenth century — and interesting to see ornament as the point of entry into the subject. From the INHA:

L’Esthétique du laid: Essai de définition d’une histoire du goût
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 19 May 2011

Objectif à atteindre ou bête à abattre, la question de l’esthétisme demeure encore aujourd’hui un point sensible de la production et de la critique artistique. La multiplicité des axes d’étude et la subjectivité « implicite » du sujet contraignent aujourd’hui les chercheurs et les enseignants à d’autant plus de nuances et de neutralité dans l’enseignement des arts. Organisée par les étudiants en Master 2 de l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre – La Défense et sous l’égide de Claire Barbillon et Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc, maîtres de conférences, cette journée d’étude est par conséquent l’occasion de réfléchir sur cette notion de la « laideur » et sur ses implications.

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Première Partie
Romain Godart and Sabrina Valin
« La gravure dans tous ses états : recueils d’ornements et décor architectural »

Malgré les critiques formulées à l’encontre des différents types d’ornements depuis l’Antiquité, leur diffusion massive depuis le chantier des Loges du Vatican jusqu’aux édifices français du XVIIIe siècle montre de quelles manières le « microbe » antique, tel que le décrit Louis Courajod, contamine les différents arts. Des recueils d’ornements fournissant aux artistes différents modèles, jusqu’à leur adaptation peinte, sculptée ou modelée, l’étude de ce sujet montre que l’ornement devient porteur d’un message qui transcende les simples préoccupations esthétiques et révèle une dimension cognitive ayant bien souvent trait à son commanditaire.

The full program is available as PDF here»

Conference on Connections between India and Europe

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on April 8, 2011

New Global Connections: India and Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century
Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, 5-6 May 2011

"Old Court House and Street, Calcutta," 1786

The Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, is holding an international symposium entitled New Global Connections: India and Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century on 5 and 6 May 2011. The opening lecture of the symposium (part of the long-running India Lecture Series at QUB) will be by Professor Seema Alavi of Delhi University on “Mughal Decline and the Emergence of New Global Connections.” The programme comprises eleven papers that seek to evoke the pan-European dimensions of the eighteenth-century encounter with India through interdisciplinary engagement. For details of the programme please contact: Dr. Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, g.sanchez@qub.ac.uk

Berlin Conference on Plaster Casts

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on March 26, 2011

Gipsabgüsse und antike Skulpturen / Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculpture
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 7-9 April 2011

Much of this conference addresses the nineteenth century, with a keynote address on Thursday evening by Dr. Marjorie Trusted, of the V&A on “Reproduction as Spectacle and Inspiration: The Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.” There are, however, several sessions on Friday morning for the eighteenth century:

  • Simone M. Kaiser (Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main), “Die Verbindung von Antikenforschung und fürstlicher Repräsentation im Villengarten der frühen Neuzeit”
  • Hélène J. Bremer (University of Leiden), “How to Display a Collection of Classical Sculpture at the End of the 18th Century?”
  • Francesca Valli (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano), “The Galleria delle Statue of Brera Academy in Milan, 1806”

The full program is available here»

Paris Conference on Collectors’ Marks

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on March 22, 2011

Last year on the occasion of a new supplement to Frits Lugt’s Marques de Collections de dessins et d’estampes (link to a useful description at CODART), the Rencontres Internationales du Salon du Dessin 2010 focused on this crucial work, looking both at its significance and a few specific examples of collectors’ marks. The upcoming 2011 meeting continues the theme. From the Salon du Dessin website:

Rencontres Internationales du Salon du Dessin 2011: Les Marques de collections
Palais de la Bourse, Paris, 30-31 March 2011

A l’occasion de l’inauguration en 2010 d’un supplément de l’ouvrage de Frits Lugt (1884-1970) Marques de Collections de dessins et d’estampes, les Rencontres internationales du Salon du Dessin 2010 se sont consacrées à l’histoire des Marques de Collections. Le premier après-midi a été dédié à la présentation de la base, à un hommage à Frits Lugt, ainsi qu’aux apports des marques dans la connaissance des fonds institutionnels. La seconde partie du colloque s’est penchée plus précisément sur quelques exemples de collectionneurs et de leurs marques. Cette double approche a permis de définir le monde de la collection et des collectionneurs selon Frits Lugt, lui-même membre éminent de cette famille et doté d’une personnalité réellement hors du commun.

Pour cette nouvelle édition 2011, les Rencontres se dérouleront à nouveau au Palais de la Bourse les 30 et 31 mars prochain, toujours sous la direction éditoriale de Peter Fuhring, responsable de la mise en oeuvre de ce projet, dans la continuité des conférences de l’an dernier.

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

  • Pierre Rosenberg (de l’Académie française), Présentation des VIèmes Rencontres
  • Novella Barbolani di Montauto (Università « La Sapienza » di Roma), “Les inscriptions sur les dessins de la collection F.M.N Gaburri”
  • Diana Dethloff (University College of London), “La collection de dessins de Peter Lely”
  • Donato Esposito (Historien de l’art, Londres), “Les vraies et fausses marques de Sir Joshua Reynolds”

Thursday, 31 March 2011

  • Peter Fuhring (Fondation Custodia, Paris), “Soleil ou Séchan? Identification de la marque L.2342”
  • Rhea Sylvia Blok (Fondation Custodia, Paris), “Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1890), collectionneur et artiste sur les pas de Rembrandt”
  • Pierre Juhel (Historien d’art, Paris), “Georges Pochet (1843-1901), collectionneur de dessins et estampes modernes”
  • Francesco Grisolia, (Doctorant, Université « Tor vegata » di Roma), “Rodolfo Lanciani (1845-1929), archéologue et collectionneur de dessins et d’estampes”

University of Warwick: Spanish America in the Eighteenth Century

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on March 16, 2011

Spanish America in the Early 18th Century: New Perspectives on a Forgotten Era
University of Warwick, Coventry, 15-16 April 2011

A day and a half workshop, to take place at the University of Warwick on 15 and 16 April 2011, will bring together a group of scholars working on Spanish America during the first half of the eighteenth century from different disciplines and perspectives. Until recently, the years between the accession of the house of Bourbon to the Spanish throne in 1700 and the coronation of Charles III in 1759 had failed to attract the interest of scholars of the Spanish world in the way that the latter part of the century had. Over the past few years, however, a growing number of scholars have begun to explore the early Bourbon period from innovative perspectives challenging the traditional view of the period as a largely inconsequential sequel to the later years of Habsburg rule. The workshop is an opportunity for a new generation of scholars, and for those well established academics that spearheaded these new developments, to talk about the directions in which research is moving and to discuss what the period looks like from our different perspectives. Particular emphasis will be placed on discussing the different ways in which the Bourbon succession, international competition over access to Spanish American resources, and war affected the region in the short and medium term. Participants include Rebecca Earle (Warwick), Allan Kuethe (Texas Tech), Anthony McFarlane (Warwick), Adrian Pearce (KCL), Christoph Rosenmuller (MTSU), Nuria Sala (Girona), Christopher Storrs (Dundee). Conference fee £20 (£12 for graduate students/unwaged). For further details please visit the conference website.

In Munich: Conserving Boulle Furniture, Exhibition and Symposium

Posted in conferences (to attend), exhibitions by Editor on March 15, 2011

From the museum’s website:

Prunkmöbel am Münchner Hof: Barocker Dekor unter der Lupe
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Munich, 8 April — 31 July 2011

Symposium — Baroque Furniture in the Boulle Technique: Conservation, Science and History
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Munich, 5-7 May 2011

In spring 2011 the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum will have completed an interdisciplinary research project dedicated to the conservation /restoration of four writing cabinets decorated with fine marquetry in the Boulle technique. These cabinets were made by Johann Puchwiser (1680-1744), ebenist to the Munich court. The project has been supported by the Getty Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung und the Eleonora-Schamberger-Stiftung and joined by an international group of furniture experts, scientists and conservators/restorers.

To showcase this project, we are planning the exhibition Prunkmöbel am Münchner Hof: Barocker Dekor unter der Lupe from 8th April to 31st July 2011. The show will present magnificent furniture in the Boulle technique and focuses especially on the conservation of the Puchwiser cabinets, stylistic developments, manufacturing
techniques, and Boulle marquetry in general.

The announced symposium on the conservation project Baroque Furniture in Boulle Technique: Conservation, Science, and History is addressed to art historians, conservators/restorers and scientists. Internationally recognized experts will present their results in conservation/ restoration and scientific analysis of objects in Boulle technique. Lectures and guided tours will be held in English. Post-prints will be published shortly after the conference and can be ordered in advance. Conference fee including coffee break and lunch: 120€ / Reduced fee for students: 60€. Deadline for registration: 15th April 2011.

On Thursday 5th May we will meet for an evening dinner in the restaurant of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. If you would like to join, please add 40€ to the conference fee. For registration and information, please contact:
restaurierung.sekretariat@bnm.mwn.de

A preliminary program is available here»

ASECS in Vancouver, 2011

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on March 9, 2011

2011 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
Vancouver, British Columbia, 17-20 March 2011

The 2011 ASECS conference takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 17-20, at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre. Along with our annual luncheon and business meeting on Friday, HECAA will be represented by two panels (also on Friday) chaired by Douglas Fordham and David Ehrenpreis and Kevin Justus. In addition to these, a wide selection of sessions are also included below (admittedly there are lots of others that will interest HECAA members). For the full program, see the ASECS website.

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T H U R S D A Y , 1 7  M A R C H ,  2 0 1 1

8:00-9:30
The Material Culture of Authorship, Pavilion Ballroom C
Chair: Robert MILES, University of Victoria
1. David A. BREWER, The Ohio State University, “Authorial Heads: Painted, Printed, Carved and Cast”
2.  Brian COWAN, McGill University, “Henry Sacheverell and Material Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
3. Sören C. HAMMERSCHMIDT, Ghent University, “‘The Best Work, or Best Character’: Intermedial Authorship in Alexander Pope’s Letters”
4. Tom MOLE, McGill University, “The Material Culture of Commemoration: The Scott Monument and the Reformed Nation”

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9:45-11:15
Clothing/Costume/Fashion – I,  Pavilion Ballroom C
Chairs: Vivian P. CAMERON, Independent Scholar AND William W. CLARK, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
1. Emily PFIEFER, University of California, Riverside, “Fashioning Absolute Control: Defining the French Autocratic Ideal through Indian Textile Regulation, 1700–1706”
2. Jeffrey COLLINS, Bard Graduate Center, “Cornelis Troost: Fashioning Satire in Eighteenth-Century Holland”
3. Meredith MARTIN, Wellesley College, “Fashion and Globalization in Pre-Revolutionary France”

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11:30-1:00
Clothing/Costume/Fashion – II, Pavilion Ballroom C
Chairs: William W. CLARK, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York AND Vivian P. CAMERON, Independent Scholar
1. Denise Amy BAXTER, University of North Texas, “Fashion and the Maternal Body in France, 1792–1814”
2. Laura ENGEL, Duquesne University, “Much Ado about Muffs: Actresses, Accessories, and Austen”
3. Alicia KERFOOT, McMaster University, “‘Let firm, well-hammer’d Soles protect thy Feet’: Footwear and the Permeability of the Street in Gay’s Trivia”

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2:30-4:00
Prints: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century, Pavilion Ballroom C
Chair: Craig HANSON, Calvin College
1. Robert FOLKENFLIK, University of California, Irvine, “Illustrating English Novels in the Eighteenth Century”
2. Catharine INGERSOLL, University of Texas at Austin, “Medieval Margaret, Enlightenment Edinburgh: Alexander Runciman’s Etchings of St. Margaret of Scotland in their Historical Contexts”
3. Michael YONAN, University of Missouri, “‘The Uniqueness of English Humours’: Hogarth’s Prints and the German Critique of National Character”
4. Liza OLIVER, Northwestern University, “Sites of Exclusion and Slippages of Time: Murphy’s Arabian Antiquities of Spain, 1815”

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4:15-5:45
Aesthetics, Ethics, and Economics in Late Eighteenth-Century Art and Literature, Port McNeill
Chair: Catherine LABIO, University of Colorado, Boulder
1. Sophie RAUX, Université Lille 3, “Amateurs vs. Dealers: Defining the Value of Art in Enlightenment France”
2. Bradford MUDGE, University of Colorado, Denver, “Eating Money: Kitty Fisher, Joshua Reynolds, and the Ethics of Consumption”
3. Konstanze BARON, University of Halle-Wittenberg, “Diderot’s Les Deux amis de Bourbonne: The Passions and the Interests (of Reading)”
4. Yota BATSAKI, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, “‘Interesting in Every Sense: Economics, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative (1789)”

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6:00-7:30
A Round Table In Memory of Angela Rosenthal, Grand Ballroom A
Organized by Laura AURICCHIO, Bernadete FORT, and Melissa HYDE
Eight speakers will pay tribute to Angela Rosenthal’s life and the influence of her scholarship on the study of Eighteenth-Century visual culture.

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8:00-9:30
The Dutch Connection in European Visual Arts, Pavilion Ballroom C
Chair: JoLynn EDWARDS, University of Washington, Bothell
1. Georgina COLE, University of Sydney, “Eavesdropping:  Rethinking Space and Subjectivity in the Eighteenth Century”
2. Christina K. LINDEMAN, Pima Community College, “Illustrating a Painter’s Profession:  Convergence of Dutch Genre Conventions in Anna Dorothea Therbusch’s Self Portraits”
3. Craig HANSON, Calvin College, “From Scientific Illustration to the Painted Landscape: The Importance of Dutch Artists for British Visual Culture”
4. Julie CADOTTE, University of Montreal, “A French Play Seen by a Dutch Artist: Cornelis Troost and the Scene from Tartuffe”

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9:45-11:15
Art Before Nationalism, Pavilion Ballroom C  — (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture)
Chairs: David EHRENPREIS, James Madison University AND Douglas FORDHAM, University of Virginia
1.  Claude WILLAN, Stanford University, “Performance Anxiety: Sociality, Theatre, and Watteau’s political fêtes galantes”
2.  Andrew SCHULZ, University of Oregon, “Excavating Spain’s Islamic Past”
3.  Daniel O’QUINN, University of Guelph, “The Countenance of Patriotism: Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Portraits of Augustus Keppel”

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11:30-1:00
Looking Forward, Looking Back: HECAA’s New Scholars Session, Pavilion Ballroom C — (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture)
Chair: Kevin L. JUSTUS, Independent Scholar
1. Leah SINGSANK, University of Arizona, “Ambiguity, Legibility, and the Erotic in Eighteenth-Century France”
2. Heidi E. KRAUS, The University of Iowa, “New Sources: David’s Sabine Women Reconsidered”
3. Molly MEDAKOVICH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “A Portrait of Female Friendship: Juliette Récamier at the Abbaye-aux-Bois”

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1:00-2:30
HECAA Luncheon

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2:30-4:00
Presidential Address, Awards Presentation, and ASECS Business Meeting
Heather MCPHERSON, University of Alabama at Birmingham, “‘Thinking Heads’: Deciphering Enlightenment Portraits”

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4:15-5:45
Confluences and Continguties in Eighteenth-Century French Literary, Visual Arts and Musical Arts: A Seminar in Memory of Walter E. Rex,  Grand Ballroom BC
Chairs: Dorothy JOHNSON, University of Iowa AND Mary SHERIFF, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1.  Paula RADISICH, Whittier College, ‘A bust, a globe,’ Chardin and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns”
2.  Tili Boon CUILLÉ, Washington University, “Staging the Supersensory”
3.  Christopher M. S. JOHNS, Vanderbilt University, “Canova’s Penitent Magdalene: Art, Literature, and Roman Catholicism in Napoleonic Paris.”

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9:45-11:15
Transfers and Transformations: The Visual Arts in the Iberian Peninsula and the New World – I, Grand Ballroom BC
Chair: Anne-Louise G. FONSECA, Université de Montréal
1. Giuseppina RAGGI, Centro Histórico de Além Mar / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, “A pintura de quadratura nas terras portuguesas d’aquém e além mar”
2. Rodrigo Almeida BASTOS, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/ UNIVILLE, Brazil, “Adaptação de modelos e elementos portugueses na arquitetura religiosa do século XVIII em Minas Gerais, Brasil”
3. Rafael MOREIRA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos do Século XVIII, Portugal, “A Portuguese “Temple of Solomon” in the Tropics: the Sanctuary of São Bento de Olinda in late Eighteenth-Century Brazil”

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2:00-3:30
Dogs and Cats, Monkeys and Birds: Pets and Pet Keeping in the Eighteenth Century, Finback
Chair: Julie-Anne PLAX, University of Arizona
1. Erin PARKER, University of Toronto, “Be our Guest: Pets, Hospitality, and Sarah Trimmer’s Fabulous Histories”
2. Ingrid TAGUE, University of Denver, “Fops and Dancing-Masters, Apes and Lapdogs: Masculinity  and Pets in England”
3. Sandra BARR , Independent Scholar, “Alone in a Crowd—the People’s Pet Rhino, Clara”
4. Kevin L. JUSTUS, Independent Scholar, “Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been?  I’ve been to Versailles to Visit the King: Louis XV’s
Pets, or How the King Loves and Indulges his Animals.”

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2:00-3:30
Transfers and Transformations: The Visual Arts in the Iberian Peninsula and the New World – II, Port McNeill
Chair: Gloria EIVE, Emerita, Saint Mary’s College of California
1. Sebastian FERRERO, Université de Montréal, “Un motivo andino en la Apoteosis de San Ignacio de Andrea Pozzo. La red jesuita y los alcances del conocimiento pseudo-etnográfico”
2. Leticia SQUEFF, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, “History Painting or Allegory? Manuel Dias de Oliveira’s Nossa Senhora da Conceição”
3. Anne-Louise G. FONSECA, Université de Montréal, “Eighteenth-Century Colonial Painting in Brazil: Enlightenment and Cultural Transfers”

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3:45-5:15
Everyday Objects, Grand Ballroom BC
Chair: Paula RADISICH, Whittier College
1. Amy FREUND, Texas Christian University, “Things in Portraits: Everyday Objects and Personal Identity in Revolutionary France”
2. David EHRENPREIS, James Madison University, “Ordering Things: The Beauregard Primer of 1814”
3. Chi-ming YANG, University of Pennsylvania, “Race, Chinoiserie, and the Technology of the Umbrella”
4. Christine A. JONES, University of Utah, “The Eloquence of Porcelain  Objects in French Eighteenth-Century Painting”

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3:45-5:15
Naples Reconsidered, Grand Ballroom A
Chairs: Heidi A. STROBEL, University of Evansville AND Amber LUDWIG, Boston University
1. Clorinda DONATO, California State University, Long Beach, “Of Synthetic Marble and Anatomical Machines:  Displaying Occult Science in Early Modern Naples”
2. Tom ALLSUP, Independent Scholar and Appraiser, “Eighteenth-Century Naples Porcelain”
3. Christoph WEBER, University of North Texas, “Witnesses to Disaster: Naples’ Response to the Calabrian Earthquake of 1783 in the Crossfire of German Travel Accounts”
4. Jack D’AMICO, Canisius College, “Naples, Byron, and the Early Risorgimento”

Colloquium on the Ties between Painting and Gardening

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on March 5, 2011

From Le blog de APAHAU:

De la peinture au jardin: transferts artistiques de l’Antiquité à nos jours
Villa Medici, Rome, 17-19 March 2011

Si les ouvrages d’ensemble sur l’iconographie des jardins dans la peinture se sont multipliés depuis peu, à l’inverse les répercussions de la peinture sur les jardins n’ont fait l’objet pour l’instant que de travaux dispersés. C’est sur les modalités des transferts de la peinture au jardin et leur évolution, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’aux créations les plus contemporaines, que le colloque souhaite apporter une réflexion renouvelée. Trois thématiques principales orienteront les réflexions des chercheurs : d’une part, la présence de la peinture dans les jardins qui enrichit symboliquement la sémantique de leur espace à travers une « iconographie ». D’autre part, la question de la peinture comme modèle du jardin, qui atteindra son apogée dans l’Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle à travers les diverses esthétiques rassemblées sous la bannière du « picturesque ». Enfin, la conception du jardin en tant que représentation et la place paradoxale de cette forme de création au sein des différents « systèmes des beaux-arts ». Cette approche des transferts complexes de la peinture au jardin – selon un rapport d’imitation, d’émulation, de traduction ou parfois d’émancipation – sera enfin susceptible de déboucher sur une interrogation plus large quant aux fonctions – et aux limites – du paradigme pictural dans le rapport culturel au paysage, en Occident comme dans d’autres cultures.