City Merchants and the Arts
Organised by the Corporation of London's Educations Service and Guildhall
Art Gallery, at the Guildhall Art Gallery, 1 November 2002, 10:30-4:00
Call for Papers
The starting point for this project was the publication earlier this year
of a booklet on a late-17th century painted room by Robert Robinson. This
exotic and unusual cycle of paintings is now housed in Sir John Cass's
Foundation Primary School in the City of London. While they are arguably
Robinson's masterpiece, the paintings, which originally came from a London
merchant's house, have been hidden from public view for most of their
existence. They are an invaluable tool for examining the relationship
between art and merchants.
This has largely been overlooked by art historians in favour of the more
familiar territories of court and church patronage. We would be interested
to hear from anyone who has researched the relationship between art and
merchants in Britain and Europe, particularly if there are links with
London, either of an artistic or a mercantile nature.
Please write by 15 July to the conference organiser, Mireille Galinou, 70
Links Road, Tooting, London Sw17 9ET, e-mail [log in to unmask]
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Double-Sight: Copies, likenesses and translations on early modern visual
culture
Courtauld Institute of Art, 12-13 December 2002
Call for Papers
This conference will address changing attitudes towards visual replication
during the 16th and 17th centuries, a period in which the nature of visual
mimesis and new constructions of knowledge became closely interconnected
and strongly contested. We seek papers that take up diverse theoretical and
geographical terrains and prompt us to ask how images become meaningful
across the spaces of representation and in the gaps between diverse visual
vocabularies and representational systems.
Proposals should be sent by 31 July to Dr Rose Marie San Juan, Department
of Art History and Visual Art, University of British Columbia, 6333
Memorial Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z2, Canada, e-mail
[log in to unmask] AND Dr Joanna Woodall, The Courtauld Institute
of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, U.K., e-mail
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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544 Fax +44 (0)1273 678644
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/
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