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Art History 48 (February 2025)

Posted in books, journal articles, reviews by Editor on April 8, 2025

The 18th century in the latest issue of Art History:

Art History 48 (February 2025)

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cover of the journal Art History (Feb 2025).• Oliver Wunsch, “The Aesthetic Redemption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France,” pp. 14–44.
Audiences in eighteenth-century France felt little compunction about admiring African people in art while denigrating them in life. They reconciled this apparent contradiction through a belief in the ameliorative effects of art, yielding what is described here as a theory of aesthetic redemption. This essay argues that the theory of aesthetic redemption that developed in eighteenth-century France gave art a unique position in the construction of race. Because those who believed in the possibility of aesthetic redemption distinguished between art’s content and its manner of representation, they created the conditions for artists to depict people of colour using materials, techniques, and formal structures whose qualities would otherwise be considered at odds with the subject. The resulting art often strikes audiences today as progressive, yet it did little to challenge the biases of the original viewers, who admired aesthetic departures from stereotypes precisely because they took those stereotypes for granted.

• Diarmuid Costello, “Die Schönheit des Mittelmenschen: Stephan Balkenhol’s ‘Everyday Beauty’,” pp. 132–61.
This essay considers Stephan Balkenhol’s ‘everyman and woman’ sculptures through the optic of Kant’s ‘ideal of beauty’ (§17, Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, 1790). I take a pair of miniature figures as my test case. Despite minor variations, all these sculptures depict the same generic man and woman, a man or woman who average or middling in every way. What could make depictions of average everydayness so compelling? For a clue, I turn to Kant’s ‘ideal of beauty’. This comprises a ‘standard aesthetic idea’ and an ‘idea of reason’: the former is a (culturally specific) ‘model image’ of the human being; the latter implicates Kant’s (universal) conception of ‘humanity in the person’, where the latter manifests itself through the former. I ask whether this illuminates Balkenhol’s work, suggesting that although the relevance of the former is clear, and the latter less so, there is reason not to rule it out.

• Viccy Coltman, “Travelling Knick-Knacks and Picturesque Points of View: Reverend James Plumptre’s Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey … to the Highlands of Scotland … in the Summer of the Year 1799,” pp. 162–84.
This essay revisits later eighteenth-century picturesque aesthetics in Britain as they were articulated in theory, applied in practice, and reproduced in travel literature and art. It considers the sometimes congruent, at other times contested, relationship between the natural landscape, written descriptions of that landscape, and its pictorial representation. Focusing on unpublished extracts from Reverend James Plumptre’s manuscript travel journal, Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey […] to the Highlands of Scotland […] in the Summer of the Year 1799, it argues for an original interpretation of the pedestrian picturesque as a suite of practices which entailed travelling by foot, viewing the landscape with a range of hand-held implements or ‘knick-knacks’, and representing nature ‘as seen’ without remedial artistic correction or improvement. According to this account, ‘people, places, and things’ becomes a useful rubric for conceptualising Plumptre’s 1799 pedestrian tour of Scotland which included visits to the Edinburgh studios of artists Alexander Nasmyth, Henry Raeburn, and Hugh William Williams.

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• Brigid von Preussen, “A Woman’s Work,” Review of Paris Spies-Gans, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760–1830 (Yale UP, 2022) and Rosalind Blakesley, Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great (Lund Humphries, 2023), pp. 186–92.

Call for Papers | Material Culture Pre-1850 Workshop, Lifecycles

Posted in Calls for Papers, online learning by Editor on April 8, 2025

From the announcement:

Lifecycles | Material Culture Pre-1850 Workshop, University of Cambridge

Hybrid format, alternate Monday evenings, Easter Term 2025

Proposals due by 28 April 2025

The Material Culture pre-1850 Workshop at the University of Cambridge invites submissions for 20-minute papers. Our theme for Easter term is Lifecycles, which we frame as encompassing the ways in which objects endure their afterlives; the manners in which they are transferred, rarefied, treasured, rearranged, commodified, used up, mended and destroyed. Papers may wish to respond to this concept particularly in terms of object biography.

The workshop is a forum for researchers at all career stages to discuss the material culture of the medieval period, early modernity, and the long eighteenth century. We welcome submissions from all disciplines. The workshop will meet in a hybrid format on alternate Monday evenings from 5 to 7pm GMT.

Submissions must include a title, abstract (250 words), and brief academic bio, to be sent to Sophia Feist (stcf2@cam.ac.uk) and Tomas Brown (tbnb2@cam.ac.uk) by 28 April 2025. Submissions with potentially distressing content should include a warning, excluded from the word count.

Ten Axioms: Drimmer and Nygren on Art History and AI

Posted in journal articles by Editor on April 7, 2025

I was slow finding this essay on artificial intelligence, but it strikes me as immensely helpful (it seems someone asks me about art and AI at least once a week these days). CH

Sonja Drimmer and Christopher Nygren, “Art History and AI: Ten Axioms,” International Journal for Digital Art History 10 (2023): 5.01–10. Link»

One of a handful of digital images accompanying the article created by Dall-e-2 using the following prompt: “the history of art as understood by artificial intelligence.”

Abstract | AI has become an increasingly prevalent tool for researchers working in Digital Art History. The promise of AI is great, but so are the ethical and intellectual issues it raises. Here we propose 10 axioms related to the use of AI in art historical research that scholars should consider when embarking on such projects, and we make some proposals for how these axioms might be integrated into disciplinary conversations.

Sonja Drimmer is associate professor of medieval art in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research is chiefly concerned with the book arts of the Middle Ages, addressing in particular issues of mediation, collaborative production, and replication. She is the author of The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 (University of Pennsylvania, 2018), which received High Commendation for Exemplary Scholarship from the Historians of British Art.

Christopher J. Nygren is associate professor of early modern art in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2022, his book, Titian’s Icons: Charisma, Tradition, and Devotion in the Italian Renaissance (Penn State, 2020), won the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for best book in Renaissance studies from the Renaissance Society of America. Profesoor Nygren is also developing several collaborative research projects, including in the Digital Humanities. From 2017 to 2019 he served as Principal Investigator on “The Morelli Machine,” a project funded by the National Science Foundation that sought to examine whether computational methods might be used in the attribution of Old Master paintings.

Conference | Traveling Marble, 18th–20th Centuries

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on April 7, 2025

From ArtHist.net:

Traveling Marble: Agents, Networks, Technologies, 18th–20th Centuries

Thorvaldsen’s Museum, Copenhagen, 10 April 2025

Organized by Amalie Skovmøller and Ariane Varela Braga

Through thousands of years, white marble stones have been quarried and circulated to be consumed for architectural and artistic purposes worldwide. The stones are known from ancient Greek and Roman cultures, but during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, white marble assumed a central role in the formation of European and Western art- and cultural history reaching far beyond the boundaries of antiquity. As a material signifying cultural prestige, white marble became a popular material for building and decorative projects, and the Imperial powers of Europe established new quarry facilities all over the world. These growing marble networks circulated white stones in far-reaching patterns of distribution from central Europe to the USA and from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. Moving large quantities of solid stone requires a complex infrastructure, developed and maintained to support the increasing consumption. Yet scholars of art history and architectural studies have traditionally addressed white marble through the lens of aesthetics, leaving its omnipresence and global condition largely unexplored.

This seminar explores the distribution patterns of white marble, with particular emphasis on the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, but with perspectives on antiquity. Framing white marble as both a local and global phenomenon, the seminar shifts focus from the traditional emphasis on artists and their materials towards unseen networks of quarry owners, extractors and trading agents. In doing so, the seminar probes questions related to how quarries have been organized through time and the role played by marble consortiums, associations and federations, who have regulated labour, transportation, and distribution over time. The seminar thus targets patterns of distribution, such as trading routes by land and sea, and the technical improvements realized over time, bringing scholars together to discuss how to gather and share data on the extraction and circulation of marble to lay the first foundations for a future global archive of white marble distribution for this period. Please note that registration is required for attendance.

Organized by Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab / Amalie Skovmøller. In collaboration with Ariane Varela Braga / UNED, Madrid

p r o g r a m m e

9.30  Registration and coffee

10.00  Welcome by Amalie Skovmøller and Ariane Varela Braga

10:15  Morning Talks
• A World in Marble — Amalie Skovmøller
• Materials That Connect: The Circulation of White Marble in the Ancient Mediterranean — Alessandro Poggio
• Ancient Naxian Marble Quarries and Dedications: Documentation and Study from the 18th Century to Today — Rebecca Levitan

13.15  Afternoon Talks
• 18th-Century Norwegian Marble in Copenhagen — Kent Alstrup
• The Workshop of Antonio Caniparoli & Figli in Carrara 1850 to 1930 — Sandra Beresford
• Reading into Greenland Marble: ‘A Noble Danish Material’ — Jonathan Foote
• Marble for the Duce: The Networks of Agents, Merchants, and Marble Workers at Foro Mussolini — Ariane Varela Braga
• The ‘Archivi del Marmor Project (AMP)’ — Cristiana Barandoni and Luca Borghini

16.15  Final discussion

The Burlington Magazine, March 2025

Posted in books, catalogues, exhibitions, journal articles, reviews by Editor on April 6, 2025

The long 18th century in the March issue of The Burlington:

The Burlington Magazine 167 (March 2025)

Cover of The Burlington Magazine with a recent acquisition at The Met: Longcase equation regulator, clockmaker: Ferdinand Berthoud, case maker: Balthazar Lieutaud, ca. 1752 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016.28a–e).

e d i t o r i a l

• “A Frick Renaissance,” p. 203–05.
On 17th April 2025 the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue re-opens after a long period of redevelopment. When an old friend has a face lift, the results can be disconcerting. Happily, the impact here is, however, reassuringly subtle—as the splendid Gilded-age character of one of New York’s iconic cultural institutions has been retained, while elegant new facilities have been deftly integrated.

a r t i c l e s

• Julia Seimon, “Two Boys with a Bladder in the J. Paul Getty Museum and Joseph Wright of Derby’s Early Candlelights,” pp. 242–57.
A careful re-assessment of Joseph Wright of Derby’s painting of Two Boys with a Bladder in the Getty’s collection, supported by documentary discoveries, clarifies the circumstances of the painting’s creation and first exhibition and has significant implications for dating several of the artist’s other painted and drawn works.

s h o r t e r  n o t i c e s

• Oliver Fairclough, “Paul Sandby and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Revisited,” pp. 258–61.

• Christina Milton O’Connell, “Observations about the Abandoned Portrait beneath Gainsborough’s Blue Boy,” pp. 26–65.

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Cover of Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis, featuring a photograph of Giovanni Battista Foggini’s Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1675, marble (Saint Petersburg: Hermitage).

• Nicola Ciarlo, Review of Kira d’Alburquerque, Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis (CTHS, 2023), pp. 292–94.

• Adam Bowett, Review of Stephen Jackson, Scottish Furniture 1500–1914 (NMS Publishing, 2024), pp. 296–98.

• Penelope Curtis, Review of the exhibition catalogue Souvenirs de jeunesse: Entrer aux Beaux-Arts de Paris 1780–1980, edited by Alice Thomine-Berrada (Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2024), pp. 298–99.

• Alan Powers, Review of Edward McParland, The Language of Architectural Classicism: From Looking to Seeing (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2025), pp. 299–300.

• Max Marmor, Review of Julius von Schlosser, The Literature of Art: A Manual for Source Work in the History of Early Modern European Art Theory, translated by Karl Johns (Ariadne Press, 2023), p. 303.

s u p p l e m e n t

• Sarah Lawrence, “Recent Acquisitions (2014–24) of European Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” pp. 305–24.

New Book | Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752)

Posted in books by Editor on April 6, 2025

Distributed by Yale UP:

Jennifer Montagu, Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752) and Roman Sculpture of His Time (London: Burlington Press, 2025), 302 pages, ISBN: 978-1916237858, $125.

Giovanni Battista Maini is one of the most important and accomplished—although least known and appreciated—of late Baroque sculptors. This new monograph provides an authoritative, scholarly, and beautifully illustrated survey of all his principal commissions. Maini was born in Lombardy and had moved to Rome by 1710. His prestigious projects in the city included the funerary monument for Pope Innocent X in Sant’Agnese in Agone and the two majestic tombs in the family chapel of Pope Clement XII in San Giovanni in Laterano. Maini also worked in Santa Maria Maggiore and was involved in the design for the iconic Fontana di Trevi. These works are set in the context of the Roman art scene: the struggle for commissions, payment, and reputation.

Jennifer Montagu is a distinguished art historian who specialises in Roman Baroque sculpture. Her monograph on Alessandro Algardi was published in 1985 to great acclaim. Montagu worked as Curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute, London, and has been both the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford and the Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She has also served as a Trustee of the Wallace Collection and British Museum, London, and is an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Call for Papers | The Future of the Antique

Posted in Calls for Papers by Editor on April 5, 2025

From the Call for Papers:

The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon

Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies, London, 10–12 December 2025

Organized by Adriano Aymonino and Kathleen Christian

Proposals due by 15 May 2025

The University of Buckingham, the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), the Warburg Institute, and the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London) are organising an interdisciplinary conference to celebrate the publication of the new edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s seminal work Taste and the Antique (Harvey Miller/Brepols, December 2024).

This landmark publication provides an opportunity to review and coordinate recent achievements and new initiatives in the study and interpretation of the Greek and Roman sculptural legacy. The original 1981 Yale University Press edition of Taste and the Antique significantly shaped the field’s direction over four decades, influencing both academic research and curatorial practices. The revised and expanded three-volume edition, featuring numerous newly commissioned photographs, substantially updates the scholarship with research from recent decades. It broadens the exploration of these works’ reception and influence, from Renaissance collectors to contemporary artists. The edition particularly examines how classical statues impacted European imagery beyond direct replication, including:
• Their adaptation across diverse media
• Their impact on art and architectural theory and pedagogy
• Their influence on anatomical study and proportional theory
• Their role in modernist culture and modern / postmodern popular culture
• Their enduring presence in contemporary imagery and conceptions of the human body

The conference aims to assess the current state of research, rethinking established methodologies and exploring possible future directions in the field. Its primary goal is to foster discussion among different generations of scholars whose research outputs are often separated by language and methodological barriers. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on interrelated topics such as the following, outlined by the book or extending beyond it. Priority will be given to innovative papers focusing on the legacy of antique sculptural models in European/Colonial art and culture since the Renaissance:
Academy and Canon — examining their establishment, radical alteration, and dissolution in the modern era.
New Canons — the antique in modern and postmodern theoretical frameworks and practices.
Antique / Modern Bodies — classical statuary’s influence on human anatomical study; proportioned and disproportioned body concepts; the representation of the male and female body; physiognomy; conceptions of race and ethnicity.
Empire and its Enemies — political and racial implications of the antique.
Priorities and Display — the antique within modern museum contexts.
Restorations and Forgery — reconfigurations of the antique and notions of authenticity.
Narrative Patterns — the classical language of gesture, story-telling/narrative.

Please submit your title and abstract of no more than 200 words, along with a short biography (about 100 words—please do not send CVs) to Mattia Ciani (m.ciani8@student.unisi.it) by noon (BST), 15 May 2025. The abstract and biography should be combined in a single Word document and submitted as an email attachment. Incomplete or late submissions will not be considered. Notification of the outcome will be communicated via email by 1 July 2025. We intend to publish the proceedings of the conference.

New Book | The Language of Architectural Classicism

Posted in books by Editor on April 4, 2025

From Lund Humphries:

Edward McParland, The Language of Architectural Classicism: From Looking to Seeing (London: Lund Humphries Publishers, 2025), 288 pages, ISBN: 978-1848226593, £35 / $70.

book coverClassicism is ubiquitous, from the facade of Selfridges to the letterhead of The Times, to the pedimented porches of neo-Georgian housing estates. This book invites readers to discover in their surroundings a rich language of form which is there to be revealed. It discusses the pleasures and problems of post-medieval architectural classicism, both its rigour and flexibility, its perfections and incompleteness, its continuities and innovations, and its expressiveness—from the camp to the sublime, and from originality to plagiarism. Abandoning conventional chronological, biographical, or stylistic arrangements, the book makes connections between familiar art historical periods, focusing on looking closely at the buildings and their details, from which useful generalisations emerge.

The book discusses how Renaissance architects, when faced with the bewildering variety of classical antiquity, produced canonical versions of the orders and thus a systematic method of designing in the antique manner. It asks how the highly regulated language of classicism can sustain the originality of a Michelangelo, a Soane or a John Simpson and looks at the human body in relation to classical architecture. It examines the various treatments of the wall and of lettering on classical buildings, before concluding with a chapter on architectural backgrounds in Quattrocento art, revealing how this can lead to a different kind of looking at painting and sculpture.

Edward McParland is an Irish architectural historian and author of several books, including James Gandon (1985) and Public Art in Ireland, 1680–1760 (2001). He was elected as Pro-Chancellor of University of Dublin, Trinity College in 2013. McParland is the co-founder of the Irish Architectural Archive which was established in 1976, and he has contributed extensively to architectural conservation in Ireland.

c o n t e n t s

Introduction
1  The Canon
2  Imitation
3  Body and Building
4  The Wall
5  Discord
6  Lettering
7  Architectural Backgrounds, Mostly Quattrocento
Conclusion

Select Bibliography
Index

Call for Articles | Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body

Posted in Calls for Papers by Editor on April 3, 2025

From ArtHist.net:

Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body

Thematic issue of Sculpture Journal

Proposals due by 1 June 2025; completed articles will be due 1 September 2025

The normative body has been the traditional subject of sculpture since antiquity. Its ubiquity, however, has led to the invisibility of the diversity of bodies in the history of art: from the disabled body of Aesop and the ‘hermaphrodite’ from antiquity to the ‘grotesque’ or ‘monstrous’ from the Renaissance garden to the polychrome ‘ethnographic’ portrait busts from the nineteenth century. We want to question these categories and address bodies that have been under-represented in sculpture, either through representational strategies, materials that reflect on lived experience, and/or sculptural practice itself.

In the first of a series of recurring themed issues around sculpture and the body, the Editors of the Sculpture Journal encourage abstracts that rethink the traditional methods of sculpture in art history in relation to gender, sexuality, race, class and/or disability. We invite proposals for contributions that stem from but are not limited to the following: fragmentation and decay; queer and trans perspectives; health and disability; processes of othering; materiality; redefinitions/responses to normativity/the normative body; artists engaging in their work via lived experience or through materiality. We are looking at this issue transhistorically and globally, across a range of sculpture practices, from the figurative to the abstract.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words to be submitted to Teresa Kittler (teresa.kittler@york.ac.uk) and Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (natashar@essex.ac.uk) by 1st June 2025. Final submission of full-length articles of 6000–8000 words including endnotes will be requested by 1st September 2025.

Sculpture Journal is the foremost scholarly journal devoted to sculpture in all its aspects across the globe. It provides an international forum for writers and scholars in the wider field of sculpture, including all three-dimensional art and monuments. Published by Liverpool University Press, the journal offers a keen critical overview and a sound historical base, encouraging contributions of fresh research from new and established names in the field.

Symposium | Balkan and Aegean Artistic Identities in the 18th Century

Posted in conferences (to attend), online learning by Editor on April 2, 2025

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From ArtHist.net and the conference programme:

Balkan and Aegean Artistic Identities in the 18th Century: Between East and West

Online and in-person, Athens, 8–9 April 2025

Organized by Maria Georgopoulou and Alper Metin

This symposium aims to shed light on the intricate artistic and cultural identities that flourished in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Balkans and Aegean, regions positioned at the confluence of ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ historiographical conventions. The event encourages scholars to engage in a comprehensive examination of artistic production, architectural development, and socio-political dynamics during this transformative period.

Central to the symposium is the reassessment of the historiographical terms post-Byzantine art and Ottoman Baroque. Are these designations still relevant? If post-Byzantine art predominantly refers to religious works, how should we classify secular creations, such as the richly decorated interiors of Balkan and Anatolian mansions? How authentically Baroque was the so-called Ottoman Baroque, and does this term effectively convey the unique synthesis embodied in Ottoman architecture? Furthermore, how should we approach the non-Baroque elements within this period—features rooted in Byzantine, Western medieval, and Renaissance traditions—that complicate the conventional understanding of the Ottoman Baroque? The aim is to explore how these varied influences merged into hybrid forms that challenge conventional categorization.

The symposium will address the following themes:

1  The impact of political and cultural rivalries between the Ottomans and Venice in the Aegean and the Habsburgs in the Balkans, which not only redefined power structures but also shaped cross-cultural artistic and architectural identities. The manifestation of these rivalries in the built environment and material culture, such as building that bear testimony to shifts of power, conflict, and transformation.

2  The rich network of technical expertise of itinerant artists, architects, master builders, naval builders and artisans that fostered the exchange of knowledge and artistry. The fusion of local traditions in crafts (woodcarving, silverwork, textiles etc.) in areas such as Mount Athos and the Peloponnese. The influential interactions between the Archipelago and the coastal cities of mainland Greece and Anatolia, including Constantinople/Istanbul.

3  The interactions between Catholic, Orthodox, and Muslim communities in centers such as Crete, Chios, Constantinople/Istanbul, and Smyrna/Izmir, that shaped and transformed urban and architectural spaces.

4  The role of Orthodox merchants, whose economic influence and cultural mediation bridged the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe, fostering significant cross-cultural exchanges.

5  The mediation of Greek communities between the Venetian and Ottoman realms. The dual status of Greeks, as subjects of Venice and the Porte, in shaping of the artistic and architectural heritage they cultivated, with its broader implications for the region’s cultural fabric.

t u e s d a y ,  8  a p r i l

16.00  Registration and coffee

16.15  Introduction — Maria Georgopoulou (Director of the Gennadius Library) and Alper Metin (University of Bologna and 2024–25 Cotsen Traveling Fellow at the Gennadius Library)

16.30  Session 1 | Mapping Architectural Connections
• Nikos Magouliotis (Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich) — The Printed Page and the Painted Column: An Architectural Microhistory of a Church in Ottoman Thessaly, ca. 1800
• Alper Metin (Department of the Arts, University of Bologna) — Warming Up to Change: Heating Appliances in the Gradual Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Interiors
• Deniz Türker (Department of Art History, Rutgers University) — ‘Carvers of Chios’: Imperial Patrons, Ottoman Greek Kalfas, and Nimble Building in the Eighteenth Century

18.00  Coffee break

18.15  Session 2 | Domestic Spaces: History and Conservation
• Theocharis Tsampouras (Ephorate of Antiquities of Kozani, Hellenic Ministry of Culture) — The Political Character of Eighteenth-Century Christian Orthodox Art in the Ottoman Balkans
• Amalia Gkimourtzina (Ephorate of Antiquities of Kastoria, Hellenic Ministry of Culture) — The Secular Decoration in the Eighteenth-Century Mansions of Western Macedonia: The Example of the Conservation Works Carried Out in Tsiatsiapa Mansion in Kastoria
• Omniya Abdel Barr (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) — Eighteenth-Century Painted Ceilings in Cairo: Bayt al-Razzaz in the Context of Ottoman Architectural Networks

20.00  Reception

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9.30  Session 3 | ‘Post-Byzantine’ Sculpture, Textiles, Material Culture
• Anna Ballian (Benaki Museum, Athens) — From Art of the Empire to Art in the Empire: The Case of Ottoman and ‘Post-Byzantine’ Art
• Nikolaos Vryzidis (School of Applied Arts and Culture, University of West Attica) — Networks of Pluriversality: Trade, Diasporas, and ‘Baroque’ Textile Culture in Ottoman Greece
• Dimitrios Liakos (Ephorate of Antiquities of Chalkidike and Mount Athos, Hellenic Ministry of Culture) — Observations on Eighteenth-Century Sculpture in Mainland Greece: The Cases of Thessaly and Mount Athos

11.15  Coffee break

11.30  Sessions 4 | Relations with Antiquity
• Elizabeth Key Fowden (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge) — Pharos, Tower, Temple and Tent: Visualizing the Horologion in Eighteenth-Century Athens
• Paolo Girardelli (Department of History, Boğaziçi University) — A ‘Rotunda’ on the Aegean Shores: The Franciscan Church of Santa Maria in Bornova, 1797–1831