AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior
Domestic and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe
Conference to be held at the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
19-20 November 2004
Including the contributions of social, economic and cultural historians,
and historians of art and architecture, this European and
interdisciplinary conference will explore the relationship between
domestic and institutional living spaces. Themes to be explored include
the circulation of physical and material objects; the transfer of rituals
and models in interior decoration, furnishings and images; devotional
interior spaces; interiors, gender and class.
Full conference details, along with the downloadable booking form, are
available on the Centre's website: www.rca.ac.uk/csdi under 'events'.
Registration: Full delegate fee: £60, Student delegate fee: £30. Fee
includes sandwich lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea. Deadline for
registration is 12 November 2004. For further information, contact
[log in to unmask]; t. +44 (0)207 590 4183 or access its website at
www.rca.ac.uk/csdi.
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PROGRAMME
Friday 19 November
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-10:40 Introduction
Chair: Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway, University of London)
10:40 Anne McCants (MIT, US), ‘A Home Fit for Children: The Material
Possessions of Amsterdam Orphans’
11:10 Maria Hayward (The AHRB Textile Conservation Centre, University of
Southampton): ‘Signs of a Spiritual Life? An Analysis of the Possessions
and Houses of the Black, White and Grey Friars in Mid-Sixteenth-Century
England’
11:40 Molly Bourne (Syracuse University in Florence): ‘From Court to
Cloister and Back Again: The Circulation of Objects in the Mantuan Convent
of Sant’Orsola’
12:10-12:40 Discussion
12.40-13.30 Lunch
Chair: Silvia Evangelisti (University of East Anglia)
13:30 Jane Kromm (Purchase College SUNY, US): ‘Domestic Spatial
Economies and Dutch Charitable Institutions’
14:00 Helen Hills (University of Manchester): ‘The Housing of
Institutional Architecture: Searching for a Domestic Holy in Seventeenth-
Century Italian Convents’
14:30 Anne Jacobson Schutte (University of Virginia, US): ‘Interiors of
Monastic Hell: Rome 1711-22’
15.00-15.30 Discussion
15.30-15.55 Break
Chair: Marta Ajmar (Victoria & Albert Museum)
15:55 Susan Merriam (Bard College, Divisions of Arts, US): ‘The Garland
Pictures’ Two Receptions in Seventeenth-Century Italy and Flanders’
16:25 Barbara Bettoni (University of Brescia, Italy): ‘Domestic
Interiors and Religious Devotion in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
Brescia’
16:55 - 17:15 Discussion
Saturday 20 November
Chair: Carolyn Sargentson (Victoria & Albert Museum)
10:15 Luís Antunes (Instituto de Investigação Científica
Tropical): ‘Some Domestic Interiors in the Inventories of Lisbon
Merchants: An Appraisal of the Symbolic Value of Asian Objects’
10:45 Renata Ago (University La Sapienza, Italy): ‘“Middling Sort”
Domestic Interiors in Seventeenth-Century Rome’
11:15-11:35 Discussion
11:35-11:50 Break
Chair: Amanda Vickery (Royal Holloway, University of London)
11:50 Raffaella Sarti (University of Urbino, Italy): ‘Masters and
Servants: Separate and Common Spaces in Early Modern Italian Interiors’
12:20 Marko Stuhec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): ‘Changes and
Stability in the Domestic Interiors of the Nobilities in Slovene Lands in
the Seventeenth Century’
12:50-13:10 Discussion
13.10-14:00 Lunch
Chair: Flora Dennis (AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior)
14:00 Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa (Universidade do Minho,
Portugal): ‘Between Spiritual and Material Culture: Devotional, Domestic,
and Institutional Objects in Sixteenth-Century Portugal’
14:30 Henry Dietrich Fernandez (Rhode Island School of Design, US): ‘A
Temporary Home: Bramante’s Conclave Hall for Julius II’
15:00-15:20 Discussion
15:20-15:45 Break
15.45-17.15 Plenary Discussion to be led by contributions from:
Professor Dame Olwen Hufton (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Dr. Anton Schuurman (Wageningen Agricultural University)
Dr. Louise Durning (Oxford Brookes University)
Participating Institutions: Royal College of Art, Victoria & Albert
Museum, and the Bedford Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Generous support has been provided by The British Academy and by Royal
Holloway, University of London.
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