Supported by The British Academy and The School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
MUSIFICATIONS
House to Museum in Italy, 1500 to the Present Day
The Whitworth Art Gallery
Friday – Saturday, 22-23 April 2005
9:15-5:30 & 9:15-12:00
Friday 22 April
9:15 Delegates sign in (Foyer, Whitworth Art Gallery)
9:35 Welcome and introduction (Suzy Butters)
Session 1 - Chair: Suzy Butters
9:45 Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi: the making of a museum in
sixteenth-century Rome (Giorgia Mancini, Curatorial Assistant, National
Gallery, London)
10:15 Palazzo Vecchio: collecting and display in a ducal residence and seat
of government (Dr Andrea Gáldy, Henry Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, Henry
Moore Foundation and Art History & Visual Studies, The University of
Manchester)
10:45-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee
Session 2 - Chair: Marta Ajmar
11:30 "Scattered beauty”: mini collections, furnishings and access at
Ferdinando I de’ Medici’s new villa at Artimino (Dr Suzy Butters, Reader,
Art History & Visual Studies, School of Arts, Histories & Cultures, The
University of Manchester, Founder & Director of Italian Forum)
12:00 Palazzo Ranieri di Sorbello in Perugia; an inhabited house becomes a
museum (Dr Helen Rees Leahy, Director MA in Art Gallery & Museum Studies,
School of Arts, Histories & Cultures, The University of Manchester, and
Founder & Director of Manchester’s Centre for Museology)
12:30 Discussion
12:45-1:45 Lunch
Session 3 - Chair: Helen Rees Leahy
1:45 'Italy in my study': early eighteenth-century imagined museums (Dr
Louisa Bulman Connor, Curator of Drawings, Eton College, and free-lance art
historian)
2:15 Musification as hospitalisation: houses of the living or houses of the
dead? (Dr Guido Guerzoni, Lecturer in Economic History, Università il
Bocconi, Milan)
2:45-3:00 Discussion
3:00 -3:30 Tea
Session 4 - Chair: Julian Treuherz
3:30 The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan: a historical historic house
museum (Dr Starleen K. Meyer, Cultural and Marketing Consultant, Bagatti
Valsecchi Museum, Milan)
4:00-4:30 Conjuring up the Renaissance home: from objects to display (Dr
Marta Ajmar, Course Tutor & Member of the Research Department at the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Contributing Scholar to the AHRB
Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Victoria & Albert Museum,
Royal College of Art and Royal Holloway, University of London, and Dr Flora
Dennis, Research Fellow at the same AHRB Centre for the Study of the
Domestic Interior, situated at the Royal Academy of Art, London)
4:30-5:15 Discussion
5:30 Whitworth Art Gallery closes
Saturday 23 April
9:15-9:30 Welcome and coffee
9:30-9:50 Villa La Pietra and the Acton Collection: can a family home and a
museum live together? ( Dr. Francesca M. Baldry, New York University, Villa
La Pietra, Florence - Professor & Collections Care Coordinator for the
Acton Collection)
9:50-10:10 A new house museum: Sudley House, a merchant's residence &
collections (Julian Treuherz, Keeper of Art Galleries, National Museums,
Liverpool responsible for the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House,
Liverpool and the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.)
10:15-12:00 Musifications: where do we go from here? (an open panel
discussion for all speakers and delegates)
If you wish to attend the conference, please print out and fill in the
Booking Form, and send it with payment to Dr Suzy Butters/ Italian Forum
(Musifications), Art History & Visual Studies, Humanities Bridgeford
Street, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Booking Fee (including refreshments and lunch): £ 25.00 (£ 10.00 for all
students)
Furtehr details, booking forms etc. at
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/ARTHIST/forum/musification.html
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