EUROPEAN TRADE IN PAINTERS’
MATERIALS TO 1700
FRIDAY 11 AND SATURDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2005
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART AND
THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Where did painters buy their materials? Who prepared them? What did they
cost? Where did they come from, and how? This conference brings together a
very widely dispersed body of knowledge and aims to place it in a broad
economic and historical context, bringing together the expertise of
conservators, conservation scientists
and historians.
The scope of the meeting includes European trade and trade routes, the
retail distribution and wholesale trade in painters’ materials. It will
encompass specific case histories as well as a more general view of the
mechanisms and actuality of trading. Attention is concentrated on painters’
supplies, but attention is also given to associated crafts such as tapestry.
Following the Conference, the proceedings will be published by
Archetype Publications.
If you have any questions about the programme or the registration please
contact Sarah Bunn ([log in to unmask]) at the Courtauld Institute
of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Further information is
also available on the Courtauld website
(http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/trade/index.html).
Full details of the programme will be sent to you separately and near to
the time of the conference. The conference will be held at The National
Gallery on Friday and at the Courtauld Institute of Art on Saturday.
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The following from the Rome list (apologies for the inevitable cross-postings):
For those of you not on the Ficino list, news of an extremely useful
collection of online source material from the Warburg Institute website.
Subject: Warburg Digital Collections
The Warburg Institute is pleased to announce the release of the first
instalment of its digital collections. The aim of these collections is to
make out-of-print source material in medieval and Renaissance studies
freely available online. At the moment about 97 titles are now accessible
from the following page:
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/DigitalCollections.htm
The links on this page will bring you to the corresponding records of the
School of Advanced Study catalogue; there you will find a hyperlink to the
pdf file. Links have also been added to:
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/Gateway.htm
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/links.htm
Francois Quiviger
Assistant Librarian, Webmaster
The Warburg Institute
School of Advanced Study
University of London
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/
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The following from http://www.worcester.ox.ac.uk/Notices/a_index.php:
The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the period 2005-2007
Worcester College, Oxford is pleased to be able to offer a two year
residential Fellowship in the study of Renaissance or Baroque architectural
history through the generosity of the Scott Opler Foundation.
Applications are invited from scholars of any nationality and academic
affiliation in the final year of their dissertation or within the first
three years after the completion of their Ph.D., D.Phil. or comparable degree.
Topics may include any area or aspect of European architectural history
during the Renaissance or Baroque era including urbanism, landscape and
garden history, drawing and design method, theory and publication,
architectural representation, as well as studies of architecture and
related disciplines.
The Opler Research Fellow will receive a stipend of £19,460 per annum
(revised annually) and will have access to certain travel, research and
publication funds. The Fellow is entitled to free accommodation and meals
in the College as a member of the Senior Common Room.
It is expected that the Fellow may need to travel for the purposes of
research but he or she will be based in Oxford for the duration of the
Fellowship.
Applications are due by 7th January 2005 and should include a statement of
the proposed research programme and a current curriculum vitae. Applicants
must also arrange for three confidential letters of recommendation to be
sent direct to the College by the same date. Interviews for a final group
of candidates will be scheduled in late February/early March 2005.
Further particulars and an application form are available from the
Provost's Secretary, Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB; Tel +44 (0)1865
278362, Fax + 44 (0)1865 793106, Email [log in to unmask]
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Rupert Shepherd
69 Middleton Road, Banbury, Oxon. OX16 3QR, UK
Tel./Fax: +44-(0)1295 270344. Mobile: +44-(0)7941 187904.
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.ferrara.u-net.com/
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