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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»

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”

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.

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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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”

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.

A conference at the INHA in Paris later this spring will bring together twenty-five participants, specializing in ancient ceramics, art history, and the scientific study of conservation and restoration. Sessions will address leading individuals for collecting and restoration networks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, along with the diversity of approaches deployed in the face of the materiality of these objects. From the INHA website:

L’Europe du vase antique: collectionneurs, savants, restaurateurs aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 31 May — 1 June 2011

Collectionner, étudier, restaurer : trop souvent dissociées dans les travaux consacrés au devenir moderne de l’antique, ces trois pratiques étroitement liées au cours du temps n’ont cessé de s’influencer et de se féconder mutuellement, dans le cadre de réseaux européens particulièrement actifs autour de l’objet de fascination qu’a représenté le vase peint – qu’il soit d’origine grecque ou étrusque – durant les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Promouvant une approche globale et interdisciplinaire de la problématique, l’INHA propose de faire le point sur les recherches menées depuis plusieurs années au sein de l’institution, comme sur celles développées par des chercheurs étrangers. Le colloque international qui se tiendra à l’INHA les 31 mai et 1er juin 2011 rassemblera ainsi vingt cinq participants, spécialistes de la céramologie antique, de l’histoire de l’art moderne, de l’étude scientifique des œuvres d’art et de la conservation-restauration du patrimoine. Parmi les thèmes abordés figureront l’étude de personnalités marquantes qui ont animé les réseaux du collectionnisme et de la restauration en Europe, aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles ; on s’attachera aussi à éclairer la diversité des approches déployées face à la matérialité des objets. En analysant les stratégies et les contextes dans lesquels ces différents acteurs ont opéré – avec un intérêt particulier porté aux collections de vases formées en Italie et parvenues en Europe centrale et en Russie- on espère aussi bien contribuer à définir les nécessités méthodologiques de ce champ d’études qu’à projeter de nouveaux éclairages sur l’histoire des œuvres.

from the ISECS site:

• Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge, March 10-11 2011, University of California, Riverside. This conference will explore the material dimensions of inscribed knowledge across modern disciplinary lines, featuring talks by scholars in History, Literature, Digital Humanities, Geography, Music and Art History. The speakers will collectively address the role of material inscription in the formation, or deformation, of knowledge from roughly 1660-1850. Kinds of inscription that we will consider include manuscripts, drawings, maps, graffiti, archives, books and other objects. We will also consider the physical circuits and practices (i.e., manual, technological, social, institutional) through which such inscriptions traveled. Free registration is now open on the conference website. “Inscriptions” is part of the international series of six events, “The Disorder of Things: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge,” a collaborative network jointly organized by faculty in the University of California, Riverside and Birkbeck, University of London. Faculty Organizer: Professor Adriana Craciun (adrianac@ucr.edu). [Conference website]

Henri Testelin, "Colbert présente à Louis XIV les membres de l’Académie royale des sciences crée en 1667," Versailles (MV2074). © RMN (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot

La cour, siège du pou­voir et lieu de concen­tra­tion des capi­taux, a tou­jours sou­tenu la recher­che scien­ti­fi­que tan­dis que cette der­nière devait ser­vir les inté­rêts géné­raux du pays et la gloire de son sou­ve­rain. Dans ce colloque, il s’agira essen­tiel­le­ment d’étudier les poli­ti­ques scien­ti­fi­ques volon­ta­ris­tes ou non des États euro­péens sous l’Ancien Régime en s’atta­chant par­ti­cu­liè­re­ment à la recher­che « fon­da­men­tale » et à la recher­che « utile » (amé­lio­ra­tion de la santé, lutte contre la famine, pro­grès des tech­ni­ques, des cons­truc­tions et des bâti­ments, etc.). Volontairement com­pa­ra­tis­tes, les études englo­be­ront l’ère géo­gra­phi­que euro­péenne à tra­vers trois axes : le finan­ce­ment des scien­ces et des scien­ti­fi­ques, la com­mu­nauté scien­ti­fi­que
face à la cour et, enfin, la dif­fu­sion et la culture scien­ti­fi­que à la
cour.

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