Schwaben Akademie Irsee
HISTORY OF COLLECTING
Collecting Nature
24 – 27 May 2013, Kloster Irsee
27 May, Südseemuseum, Obergünzburg & Kloster St. Ottilien
28 May, Abtei Ottobeuren
Research in the history of collecting has often focused on
collections of works of art and artefacts, even though the
mediaeval and early modern kunst- and wunderkammern
harboured both artificialia and naturalia from their very
inception. In fact, some of the keenest collectors of art and
antiquities, such as Cosimo I de’ Medici or the Saxon electors,
were particularly renowned for their interest in the natural
sciences, including geography, botany, and zoology. What
started as a mass of curiosities – e.g. prepared animals,
skeletons, minerals, and metal ore - soon was transformed
into an insatiable quest for knowledge that was furthermore
fanned by the age of exploration and the exploitation of faraway
countries. Papers in this conference will focus on the
intersection between the history of collecting and the history
of science, while not forgetting the monastic or courtly
context of provenance and display.
Irsee is a particularly interesting venue for in the eighteenth
century Pater Eugen Dobler had set up a much admired bird
cabinet. Although no trace of this cabinet remains, the room
itself still exists and will be used for the conference’s academic
sessions.
International scholars will be presenting, the conference
language is English.
FRIDAY 24 MAY 2013
6.00 pm Evening reception plus short introduction to the conference
Collecting and Displaying Nature in Early Modern Japan
Susanne Formanek, Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens,
Vienna, Austria
7.30 pm Dinner
SATURDAY 25 MAY 2013
9.00 am Welcome by Andrea Gáldy and Sylvia Heudecker
“NATURALIA” AND “SCULPTURE” AFTER NATURE
9.15 am
Charles Boyle and the Mathematisation of Natural Philosophy
Ruby Paloma, Independent Scholar, Oslo, Norway
Bergwerke & Handsteine in the Royal Swedish Collections 1654–
1720
Lisa Skogh, Stockholms Universitet, Sweden
Discussion
10.30 am Coffee / Tea
11.00 am
Animal Collecting at the Medici Court in Florence: Real, Stuffed
and Painted Beasts as Evidence of Shifting Values in the Display
and Conceptualisation of the Zoological “Other”
Angelica Groom, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Casting from Nature: Wenzel Jamnitzer’s Metal Works for
Kunst- and Wunderkammern
Virginie Spenlé, Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich, Germany
Discussion
12.30 pm Lunch
NATURE AND NATURALIA INDOORS
2.00 pm
Wonders on the Walls: Visual Presentations and Displaying
Nature and Knowledge in Early Modern Private Collections
Marcell Sebők, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Collecting and Cataloguing Art and Nature in a Venetian Palazzo
Giada Damen, Princeton University, USA
Discussion
3.30 pm Coffee / Tea
4.00 pm An Archducal Collection in Brussels: Archduke Ernest of Austria
and his Collecting Ambitions
Ivo Raband, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Catesby’s birds
Shep Krech III, Brown University, Providence, USA
Discussion
7.00 pm Conference dinner
SUNDAY 26 MAY 2013
9.00 am Guided tour of Kloster Irsee (optional)
10.15 am Roman Catholic mass (optional)
SPECIFIC LOCATIONS OF DISPLAY OF NATURALIA: LIBRARIES
AND WUNDERKAMMERN
11.15 am
Nature and Grotesques: Pirro Visconti Borromeo and the
Collection in his Villa of Lainate
Barbara Tramelli, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
Berlin, Germany
Scientific Instruments in the Ideal Early Modern Library
Inga Elmqvist Söderlund, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
University, UK
Discussion
12.30 pm Lunch
2.00 pm
A Princely Plant Collector in Renaissance Germany
Miriam H. Kirch, University of North Alabama, Florence, USA
Ornithology in the Dutch Golden Age – captured
specimens, the collecting of exotica
Joy Kearney, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands
Discussion
3.30 pm Break
4.00 pm
The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and Circulation
of Objects at the Early Royal Society of London, 1660–1677
Iordan Avramov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Carl Linnaeus & The Natural History Collections of Lovisa
Ulrika of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace
Anne Harbers, University of Sydney, Australia
Discussion
5.00 pm Coffee / Tea
5.30 pm Keynote Speech
Archiving Eden
Dornith Doherty, University of North Texas, Denton, USA
7.00 pm Dinner
– Programme (may be subject to some change) –
MONDAY 27 MAY 2013
Visit to the Südsee Museum, Obergünzburg and Kloster St
Ottilien (Missions Museum) with lunch at the St Ottilien
Biergarten.
TUESDAY 28 MAY 2013
Guided tour of the Museum of the Abbey Ottobeuren in the
morning
FEE
Fee incl. 2 x full board + 1 x half board (bed + dinner + breakfast)
Single room 320,– €
Double room 287,– €
Conference fee 50,– € (excl. room and board)
Lunch 16,– € Dinner 14,– €
(must be booked in advance)
CONTACT
Sylvia Heudecker
Schwabenakademie Irsee
Klosterring 4, D – 87660 Irsee
phone 0049 (0)8341 906-665
fax 0049 (0)8341 906-669
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