Susan Bracken, Andrea Gáldy and Adriana Turpin announce the 2005-06
programme of the Collecting & Display seminar held at the IHR, University
of London:
Collecting & Display (100BC to AD1700)
Convenors: Dr Andrea Gáldy, Susan Bracken, Adriana Turpin
Mondays, 18:00, Stewart House, Room STB8
10 October Giorgia Mancini (National Gallery, London)
Collecting and Display in Sixteenth-century Rome: the Case of Cardinal
Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
Please note that the meeting will take place in Senate House, Room 104
14 November Virginie Spenlé (TU Dresden)
Painting Collections in German Residences in the Eighteenth Century:
Princely Representation and Art Display
Please note that the meeting will take place in Senate House, Room 265
12 December Tracey Avery (University of Melbourne/ Paul Mellon Centre)
The genteel and the curious: world views on display in colonial homes in
Brisbane, Australia in the late nineteenth century
9 January Karen Hearn (Tate Britain)
'Sir Nathaniell Bacon's ... and all other my pictures at Culford ...': Lady
Jane Bacon's inventory of 1659
13 February Marika Leino (Henry Moore Foundation fellow, Oxford University)
Giacomo Francesco Arpino (1607-1684) and his 'Gabinetto'
13 March Helen Rees Leahy (Centre for Museology; University of
Manchester)
Desiring Holbein: Absence and Presence in the National Gallery, London
8 May Susan Bracken (University of Sussex)
Collecting Chyna in Jacobean London
12 June Alex Marr (St. Andrew's)
tba
Please note that this session will start at 5pm
Please note the different rooms and starting times. For updates please
consult the IHR website at www.history.ac.uk.
The seminar's website is up and running at
http://www.iesa.edu/uk/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=10; over the next few days
it will take its final shape and be updated with all the latest
information. It is intended to use some of it as a 'notice board' for other
events that might be interesting for the members of the seminar's working
group. Therefore please let them have information about forthcoming events
relating to Collecting & Display.
In addition, they have a circulated a call for papers for the workshop
'Dynastic Ambition' held next July in London:
COLLECTING & DISPLAY 100BC to AD1700
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dynastic Ambition,
London, Friday 14 July 2006
Call for Papers:
The history of collecting is becoming an increasingly important field of
cultural history, attracting specialists from a wide range of disciplines,
such as art historians, archaeologists, court and book historians. Thus it
functions as a forum for interdisciplinary discussion unparalleled by most
other fields of research.
Collecting of rare and therefore precious objects is as old as
humankind, and the ownership of such collections was always meant to show
the wealth and prestige of the collector. However, collections of certain
categories of collectibles were also used through the ages to further the
owner’s political and dynastic ambitions. The Medici were the foremost
example of a bourgeois family rising in rank due to successful cultural
politics in conjunction with more conventional means. Many of the leading
European families, even those richer and more powerful than the Medici,
tried to emulate their example.
It is the aim of the conference to discuss various manifestations
of such dynastic ambition and its connection with cultural politics, art
sponsorship, building activities, and collections of art and books. We
invite proposals for papers touching on all aspects of court culture.
Please send your proposal of 250 words to [log in to unmask] before 31
December 2005.
The Venue:
The one-day workshop will be held at the Institute of Historical Research,
University of London. Delegates are expected to make their own arrangements
for travel and accommodation. However, since the workshop takes place in
the vacations some student halls offer affordable lodgings and we hope to
have more information nearer the time.
Preliminary Programme:
Friday 14 July Academic Sessions 10am to 4pm followed by Reception
|
