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The 2010 Society of Architectural Historians conference takes place in Chicago, 21-25 April. Registration is open online. The following sessions suggest something of what’s available for the long eighteenth century:

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Architectural Drawing from Antiquity through Early Modernity: The Ideas of Architecture
Friday, 2:00-4:30, Wolf Point
Chair: John Senseney (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

• Robert Bork (University of Iowa), “Drawing, Geometry, and the Procedural Logic to Gothic Design”
• Ann C. Huppert (University of Washington, Seattle), “The Centrality of Drawing in Baldassarre Peruzzi’s Design Process”
• Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (University of Maryland, College Park), “The Role of Drawing in the Evolution of Garden Design”
• Anthony Gerbino (Worcester College, University of Oxford), “The Estate Survey and the Formal Garden: Cartography and Landscape in 17th-century France”
• Heather Hyde Minor (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “G.B. Piranesi’s Notebooks and the Ideas of Architecture”

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Taking the Measure of New Colonial Architectural History
Friday, 2:00-4:30, Sauganash West
Chair: Barbara Burlison Mooney (University of Iowa)

• Pierre-Édouard Latouche (Canadian Centre for Architecture), “The Many Great and Small Rebuildings of Montreal between 1650 and 1750”
• Jeroen van den Hurk (University of Kentucky), “New Netherlandic Architecture: Evidence from Building Contracts”
• Daphne Degazon Hobson (Charlestown, Nevis), “Subsistence and Luxury: A Report from the British Caribbean in 1706”
• Mark Reinberger (University of Georgia), “Englishness and Gentility: A View from the Mid-Atlantic”
• Carl Lounsbury (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation), “Regionalism in Early American Ecclesiastical Architecture”

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Alpenreisen und Wüstenwanderungen: Envisioning Landscapes of Early Modernity
Saturday, 9:00-11:30, Western Stage
Chairs: Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern (University of Washington, Seattle)

• Jennifer Ferng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Unearthing Prosperity: the Art of Mining, Governance, and Perceptions of Landscape in Early Modern France”
• Kristoffer Neville (University of California Riverside), “Landscape versus Architecture in Early-Modern Scandinavia”
• Jeremy Kargon (Morgan State University), “From Building Toward Landscape: Erich Mendelsohn and a Reconstitution of Geographical Forms”
• Mari Hvattum (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), “‘Goats, Englishmen, and Art Lovers’: A.O. Vinje and the Making of the Modern Mountainscape”

Classics and the Classical in the Eighteenth Century
King’s College , The Strand, London, 
15-16 July 2010

Conference Presentations:

• Michael Silk (King’s College London) “Classical, Neo-classical, and Romantic:
 The Point of No Return”
• Paul Davis (University College London), “Volcanic Classicism”
• Jonathan Sacks (Concordia, Canada), “The Time of Decline

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• Joshua Billings (Oxford), “Sophocles and the German Spirit”
• Katherine Harloe (Reading), “Winckelmann’s Early Reception and the Invention
 of Altertumswissenschaft ”
• Matthew Bell (KCL), “Goethe and the Classics”
• Sebastian Matzner (KCL), “The Collapse of a Classical Tradition? An 
Archaeological Investigation into ‘The End of Rhetoric’ around 1800: 
Gottsched, Kant, Schlegel”
• Crystal  Bennes (KCL), “Lucan and Problems of Genre in 18th-Century France”
• Michael Hardy (KCL) and Katherine East (Royal Holloway), “Ciceronian Rhetoric
 in Georgian England”
• Matthew Hiscock (UCL), “Classics for the Radical Fringe: Republicans and 
Dissenters at the end of the 18th Century”
• Suzanne Aspden (Oxford), “Making Musical Classics in 18th-Century London”
• Ismene Lada-Richards (KCL), “Thinking with Ancient Pantomime in 18th-Century 
England and France”

To register, please contact William Fitzgerald 
(william.fitzgerald@kcl.ac.uk)

The 2010 ASECS conference takes place in Albuquerque, March 18-21, at the Hotel Albuquerque. Along with our annual luncheon and business meeting, HECAA will be represented by two panels, chaired by Wendy Wassying Roworth and Adrienne Childs:

Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) New Scholars Session
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 11:30-1:00, Turquoise
Chair: Wendy Wassyng ROWORTH, University of Rhode Island

1. Rose LOGIE, University of Toronto, “The Artful Voyeur: Watteau, Drawing, and Spectatorship”
2. Anne-Louise G. FONESCA, University of Montréal, “Mythological Painting in Eighteenth-Century Portugal: Models, Nudity and Patronage”
3. Hilary Coe SMITH, Duke University, “A New Approach to Measuring Taste in the Parisian Art Market, 1760-1784”
4. Diana CHENG, McGill University, “The Boudoir of the Marquise Du Châtelet: A Chapel for Oneself and the Illusion of Happiness”

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Theorizing the Decorative in Eighteenth-Century Art (HECAA)
Friday, 19 March 2010, 4:15-5:45, Alvarado A
Chair: Adrienne CHILDS, University of Maryland

1. B.A. HARRINGTON, University of Wisconsin, “Virtue Embodied: A Polite and Dutiful Worktable”
2. Ethan LASSER, The Chipstone Foundation, “The Phenomenology of Decoration”

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HECAA Luncheon and Business Meeting
Friday, 19 March 2010, 1:00-2:30, Franciscan Ballroom

OTHER SESSIONS RELATED TO THE VISUAL ARTS

THURSDAY, 18 March 2010

Gender and Homosociality in the Long Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado G
Chair: Heidi STROBEL, University of Evansville

1. Jennifer GERMANN, Ithaca College, “Women’s Networks and Artistic Survival: The Case of Marie-Éléonore Godefroid”
2. Amber LUDWIG, Boston University, “Re-Evaluating Vigée-Lebrun’s Portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Sibyl”

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Theories of Visual Experience and Artists’ Writings about Art in the Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado C
Chair: Maureen HARKIN, Reed College

1. Hector REYES, Northwestern University, “Drawing History: Dialectics of Visual Experience in the Comte de Caylus’ Recueil”
2. Lyrica TAYLOR, University of Maryland, “Portrait of the Artist: John Francis Rigaud’s Vision of the Role of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century England”
3. Abigail ZITIN, University of Chicago, “Hogarth’s Drawing Lesson: Technique and Gender in The Analysis of Beauty”

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Portraits and Money
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado H
Chair: Bradford MUDGE, University of Colorado, Denver

1. Susan EGENOLF, Texas A&M University, “Narrative as Commodity in the Marketing of Wedgwood’s Fine Heads”
2. Megan PEISER, Texas Tech University, “A Picture of Commodity: The Culture of Miniatures in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho”
3. Tatiana SENKEVITCH, University of Toronto, “The Flip Side of the Ancient Coin: Du Bos on the Portraiture of the King”

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The Eighteenth Century in Motion
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Suite 418
Chair: Alistaire TALLENT, Colorado College

1. Lila Miranda GRAVES, University of Alabama, Birmingham, “Walking the Western Circuit: Paradise Hall, Glastonbury Tor and the Arthurian Context of Tom Jones”
2. Meredith DAVIS, Ramapo College of New Jersey, “Hogarth In Flight”
3. Michael YONAN, University of Missouri, “Movement, Perception, and Salvation in the Bavarian Rococo Church”

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‘Venice’ in the Imagination of the Creative Artist and the Discursive Citizen
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Alvarado G
Chair: Todd L. LARKIN, Montana State University

1. Sally GRANT, University of Sydney, “The World in the Venetian Countryside: The Tiepolos at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani”
2. Sabrina FERRI, University of Notre Dame, “Venice on Stage: Gozzi’s Theater Between Conservatism and Innovation”
3. Irene ZANINI-CORDI, Florida State University, “Lagoon Waters: Double Vision of Venetian Festivities”
4. Lisa BERGLUND, Buffalo State College, State University of New York, “Sweet Seducements and Wandering Misery: Hester Lynch Piozzi Reflects on Venice”

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Moving Vegetation: Collecting, Transplanting, and Acclimatizing Plants in the Long Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Suite 518
Chair: Giulia PACINI, The College of William & Mary

1. Glynis RIDLEY, University of Louisville, “Eating Locally, Eating Globally: The Naturalization of Exotics and the Eighteenth-Century Imperial Enterprise”
2. Stephanie VOLMER, Managing Editor, Raritan Quarterly, Rutgers University, “Escaping Plants and Other Examples of Botanical Mobility”
3. Mira RADANOVIC, McMaster University, “‘Lily flowers steeped in alcohol, an excellent vulnerary’: The Interests, Surfeits, Debts, and Fetishes of Florilegium Culture”

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Tradition and Innovation in Northern New Spain: Revisiting Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Weaver
Chair: Cristina Cruz GONZÁLEZ, Oklahoma State University

1. Robin Farwell GAVIN, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, “Eighteenth-Century Altarscreens of New Mexico”
2. William WROTH, Independent Curator and Scholar, “Ethnic Complexity in Eighteenth-Century Ranchos de Taos”
3. Jacqueline Orsini DUNNINGTON, Independent Scholar, “Tracking the Virgin of Guadalupe in New Mexico”

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Artists’ Lives and Afterlives: Fact, Fiction, and Fabrication
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 11:30-1:00, Alvarado B
Chair: Heather MCPHERSON, University of Alabama at Birmingham

1. Sarah MONKS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, “Life/Studies: Living as an Artist in Late Eighteenth-Century London”
2. Robert MODE, Vanderbilt University, “Staging the Life of Hogarth or The Artist’s Progress”
3. Paulo M. KÜHL, State University of Campinas (Brazil), “Making Heroes in the Institut de France: Joachim Le Breton’s Notices Historiques”

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Pastiche in the Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 2:30-4:00, Alvarado G
Chair: Julie-Anne PLAX, University of Arizona

1. Julia ABRAMSON, University of Oklahoma, “What We Read into a Novel: Pastiche, Postiche, and the Two Authors of Marivaux’s Paysan parvenu”
2. Paula RADISICH, Whittier College, “Pastiche & Chardin’s Genre Subjects”
3. Wendy Wassyng ROWORTH, University of Rhode Island, “The ‘Characteristical’ Style and Salvator Rosa and in England”
4. Susan M. DIXON, University of Tulsa, “Stone Soup, or Leftovers from the Farnese Collection in Rome”

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Mapmaker, Make me a Map: Eighteenth-Century Cartographies
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 4:15-5:45, Alvarado A
Chair: Karen STOLLEY, Emory University

1. Brittany ANDERSON, Emory University, “Geography of Latin American Cities in the Encyclopedia metódica: Imagining the New World in the Eighteenth-Century”
2. Neal Anthony MESSER, Murray State University, “Imagined Order: Mapping What ‘Should Be’ in Eighteenth-Century Mexico”
3. Magali M. CARRERA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Localist Cartographies: Indigenous Mapping of Late Eighteenth-Century New Spain”
4. Trevor SPELLER, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Cartographic Humor and Cartographic Power in Gulliver’s Travels”

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FRIDAY, 19 March 2010

Cultures of Flowers
Friday, 19 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Suite 318A
Chair: Melissa HYDE, University of Florida

1. Mira MORGENSTERN, City College of New York, “The ‘Blooming’ Truth: Rousseau and the Paradox of Flowers”
2. John KOSTER, University of Toronto, “The Political Aesthetics of Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants (1790)”
3. Ann SHTEIR, York University, “Flora in the Vernacular: ‘Artificial Flower Gardens’ in 1780s London”
4. Julia SHAPCHENKO, All-Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, “Count Razumovsky’s Botanical Garden, Gorenky, Russia, 1805-1822”

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Visualizing Interiority in the Eighteenth Century
Friday, 19 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado C
Chairs: Catherine CLINGER AND Richard TAWS, McGill University

1. Jennifer FERNG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Mining, Modernism, and the Visual Culture of the Geological Landscape in Late Eighteenth Century France”
2. David EHRENPREIS, James Madison University, “Inside the Mind’s Eye: Mesmer’s Imagination and Lavoisier’s Reason”
3. Suzie PARK, Eastern Illinois University, “Adam Smith, William Gilpin, and Interiority in Ruins: Visualizing ‘what has befallen you’”

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Satire et censure de l’Ancien Régime au Consulat (French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
Friday, 19 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Alvarado A
Chair: Bernadette FORT, Northwestern University

1. Melissa HYDE, University of Florida, “Needling: The Arts of Embroidery and Satire in the Hands of the Saint-Aubins”
2. Brigitte WELTMAN-ARON, University of Florida, “Voltaire et Rousseau: courte satire, longue défense”
3. Nanette LE COAT, Trinity University, “Les Censeurs censurés: Chamfort, Marat et l’Académie française”
4. Julia DOUTHWAITE, University of Notre Dame, “Le Cimetière de la Madeleine et la censure sous le Consulat”

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Presidential Address, Awards, and Business Meeting
Friday, 19 March 2010, 2:30-4:00
Peter H. REILL, University of California, Los Angeles, “Vitalism and the Construction of the Human Sciences in the Enlightenment: Johann Gottfried Herder and Adam Smith”

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SATURDAY, 20 March 2010

Arboreal Values
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado A
Chair: Elizabeth Heckendorn COOK, University of California, Santa Barbara

1. Paula R. BACKSCHEIDER, Auburn University, “Disputed Value: Women and the Trees They Loved”
2. Nicolle JORDAN, University of Southern Mississippi, “Writing on Trees in Jonson, Barker, and Defoe”
3. Irene FIZER, Hofstra University, “The Residues She Leaves: Arboreal Constructs and the Woman ‘Out of Place’ in Sense and Sensibility”
4. Giulia PACINI, The College of William and Mary, “How to Think Trees: Arboreal Values in the Eighteenth Century”

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Representations of the Fairies in Europe and its Colonies in the Long Eighteenth Century
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado E
Chair: Charlotte TRINQUET, University of Central Florida

1. Kevin PASK, Concordia University, “Fairy Painting, Fairy Theater”
2. Sophie RAYNARD-LEROY, State University of New York, Stony Brook, “The Conteuse as a Fairy: The Example of Madame d’Aulnoy”
3. Aurélie ZYGEL-BASSO, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, “‘Ceci n’est pas une fée’: the Representation of Fairies and Magicians in French and English Anthologies Illustration at the End of the Eighteenth Century (Clément-Pierre Marillier, Thomas Stothard)”
4. Anne DUGGAN, Wayne University, “Ancient and Modern ‘Fairies’ in Donkey Skin and Lady Oscar”

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The House of Habsburg and Its Influence, Part I
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Alvarado H
Chair: Michael YONAN, University of Missouri

1. Katherine ARENS, University of Texas at Austin, “The Holy Roman Empire as a Missing Early Modern Culture”
2. Rita KRUEGER, Temple University, “The Challenges of Imperial Mothering: Empress Maria Theresa and her People”
3. Todd L. LARKIN, Montana State University, Bozeman, “The Lily and the Eagle: The Bourbon-Habsburg Alliance Emblematized by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s Marie-Antoinette in Ceremonial Dress (1778)”
4. Madeline SUTHERLAND-MEIER, University of Texas at Austin, “The Spanish Habsburgs Viewed from the Eighteenth Century”

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The House of Habsburg and Its Influence, Part II
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 3:45-5:15, Alvarado E
Chair: Michael YONAN, University of Missouri

1. Bruno FORMENT, Ghent University, Belgium, “Habsburg Opera under the ‘Belgian Climate’: Three Italian Seasons at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, 1727–1730″
2. Erick ARENAS, Stanford University, “The Missa solemnis of Eighteenth-Century Vienna: A Study of Music, Liturgy, and the Habsburg Inheritance”
3. Edmund J. GOEHRING, University of Western Ontario, “Mozart Among Austria’s Neoplatonists”
4. Karen HILES, Muhlenberg College, “Collecting Music at the Hofburg: Haydn and the ‘Emperor’ Quartet amidst the Emperor’s Quartets”

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Forms of Attention, Forms of Distraction
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 3:45-5:15, Suite 318
Chair: Andrew BROUGHTON, University of Chicago

1. Sarah KAREEM, University of California, Los Angeles, “Wonder, Attention, and Absorption”
2. Matthew LANDERS, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, “Narration and Memory Theory in the Structure of Tristram Shandy: The Medical Aesthetics of Digression”
3. Barbara BENEDICT, Trinity College, “Collecting Impressions: Antiquarianism and Attention to Detail in the Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century”
4. Respondent: Natalie PHILLIPS, Stanford University

Palazzo Mancini: L’Accademia di Francia a Roma nel Settecento
Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, 4-6 March 2010

Convegno internazionale a cura di Émilie Beck Saiello, Aude Henry-Gobet, Marc Bayard

Piranesi, "View of the Palazzo Mancini," etching, 1752 (Image from Wikimedia Commons)

Palazzo Mancini, palazzo e istituzione, luogo in cui si materializzano al tempo stesso dottrina e pratiche, fu la sede dell’Accademia di Francia a Roma dal 1725 al 1803. Fu anche un ambiente estremamente permeabile: luogo di passaggio, di scambi, di socializzazione, aperto su Roma, su Parigi e sull’Europa. L’Accademia s’interessava all’Antico, ma anche alle nuove creazioni, alla natura come alle produzioni artistiche. Istituzione ricca dunque, complessa e ricettiva, fu uno dei laboratori del XVIII secolo.

Questo convegno internazionale ha per oggetto lo studio del Palazzo e dell’istituzione che vi era ospitata all’epoca, il suo funzionamento, i suoi attori, le sue pratiche. Saranno presi in esame non soltanto l’attività degli artisti – pensionnaires e indipendenti – all’interno dell’Accademia (lavoro e visite d’atelier, viaggi di studio, …), ma anche la loro relazione con Roma (istituzioni, circoli, manifatture, atelier d’artisti, …) e con gli ambienti stranieri presenti in città (istituzioni e comunità straniere). Inoltre, sarà considerata la questione del mercato e del divenire delle opere, analizzando in particolare la collaborazione tra gli artisti francesi e l’ambiente romano, le relazioni tra essi e i viaggiatori del Grand Tour e i loro agenti. Sarà infine esaminata la diffusione delle loro opere in Francia e all’estero (esposizioni pubbliche, acquisizioni dello Stato e costituzione di collezioni private).

The conference brochure, complete with a list of speakers, is available here»

Probably of interest to those of you working on medievalism and the nineteenth century, but the eighteenth century still matters here all the same:

Constructions, reconstructions et commémorations clunisiennes, 1790-2010
Théâtre de Cluny, Ville de Cluny, 13-15 May 2010

A colloquium on the theme of the 1100th anniversary of the foundation of the Abbey of Cluny will take place, consisting of papers by specialists on the abbey’s history. Along with the program provided below, more information can be found at the conference website.

THURSDAY, 13 May 2010

2:00 – 6:30, Restaurations et commémorations, 1790-2010

• Jean-Luc Delpeuch (Mairie de Cluny), Accueil des participants.
• Didier Méhu (Université Laval, Québec), Pourquoi (ne pas) commémorer ?
• Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS, Paris / Auxerre), Commémorations clunisiennes, 1910-2010.
• Yann Potin (Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne), La destruction de l’abbaye de Cluny ou la puissance du vide, 1790-1825.
• Alain Rauwel (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Une tentative de restauration monastique à Cluny au XIXe siècle : Dom Mayeul Lamey.

FRIDAY, 14 May 2010

9:30 – 1:00, Cluny et la construction du discours scientifique aux XIXe et XXe siècles

• Isabelle Vernus (Archives départementales de Saône-et-Loire, Mâcon), Les monumenta clunisiens : le sort des archives de Cluny.
• Alain Guerreau (CNRS, Paris), Les recherches sur Cluny au XXe siècle : la balkanisation et ses conséquences.
• Daniel Russo (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Cluny dans l’histoire de l’art français d’Émile Mâle à Henri Focillon.
• Kathryn Brush (London, Ontario, University of Western Ontario), Arthur Kingsley Porter et la genèse de sa vision de Cluny.

2:45 – 7:00, Reconstructions émotionnelles et littéraires

• Janet Marquardt (Charleston, Illinois, Eastern Illinois University), Du martyr au monument : les reconstructions romantiques.
• Nicolas Reveyron (Université Lumière – Lyon II, Institut universitaire de France), François Cucherat, l’autre fils de Semur.
• Laurent Baridon (Université Pierre Mendès-France – Grenoble II) et Didier Méhu (Université Laval, Québec), Viollet-le-Duc et Cluny.
• Elizabeth Emery (Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair State University), Cluny dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle.
• François Amy de la Bretèque (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III), Chronique d’une absence : Cluny, les moines et le cinéma.

SATURDAY, 15 May 2010

9:30 – 1:00, Reconstructions et présentations contemporaines

• Frédéric Didier (Monuments historiques, Paris), Les enjeux des restaurations et reconstructions monumentales de l’abbaye de Cluny.
• Guillaume Schotté et Jean-François Coulais (ENSAM, Cluny), Les enjeux des reconstitutions virtuelles de l’église abbatiale, de la ville et de l’environnement urbain de Cluny.
• Table ronde conclusive: Commémoration, patrimoine et histoire.

In conjunction with the exhibition opening in New Haven this week, Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500-1750, the YCBA will host the following lecture on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 at 5:30pm:

Anthony Gerbino (architectural historian, Worcester College, University of Oxford)
The Paper Revolution: Drawing in English Architectural Practice 1500-1750