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From the second newsletter of the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, available online at http://www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/: The Domestic Interior: 1600 to 1940 - a postgraduate research day at the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, held at the V&A, Friday 22 November 2002 This is the first in a series of annual interdisciplinary events that bring together postgraduates working on the domestic interior to discuss their latest research. Papers consider culture, art, literature, design and architecture from historical, geographical and archaeological perspectives. Panels are 'From Production to Consumption', 'Reading Rooms and Representations', 'Imaginings and Experiences', 'Dwellings and Inhabitants'. Registration Costs: Full price - £15, Design History Society members - £11, Student price - £5. Fee includes sandwich lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea. The deadline for registration is 13 November 2002. Limited funds may be available to assist with student travel costs, available on a first-come first-served basis. Please contact Ann Matchette for details. This event is supported by the Design History Society and the Royal Historical Society. Full programme details are available on the Centre's website: www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/. Contact the Centre for further information: e-mail [log in to unmask] or tel. +44 (0)20 7590 4183 Register of Scholars and Students As part of its commitment to the exchange of information, the Centre is compiling an on-line register of scholars to be published on its website. This will contain details about people in Britain and abroad who are researching any aspect of the history of the domestic interior. Those wishing to be included in the register should submit the following information (in electronic format): name, contact information for on-line publication, institutional affiliation, subject area and description of research interests or current projects (approx. fifty words). Please send materials to [log in to unmask] The first installment of the register will be published on the Centre website this Autumn. To be included in this posting, please send entries by 20 October. Going Abroad: British Art and Design in a Wider World, 1500-1900, conference at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 6-7 December 2002. For further details,contact: +44 (0)20 7942 2209, or go to http://www.vam.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The current issue of Renaissance Studies, Volume 16, Number 3 (September 2002) is edited by Molly Bourne and devoted to 'Art and Culture in Renaissance Mantua'. Two articles, in particular, will be of interest to members of this list. According to the journal's own abstracts: EVELYN WELCH, The art of expenditure: the court of Paola Malatesta Gonzaga in fifteenth-century Mantua The paper draws on four surviving account books to examine the way a female court functioned during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The documents, which have never received detailed attention, record Paola Malatesta Gonzaga's income and expenditure over an almost twenty-year period, revealing her close attention to her land, estates, and the welfare of her jamiglia. They also provide considerable new information for Paola's important, and now almost entirely lost, patronage of religious institutions in Mantua. From her previous historiographic role as the wife of Mantua's first marquis, Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, or as the mother of Ludovico and Cecilia Gonzaga, Paola emerges as an energetic, ambitious and culturally sensitive figure whose biography deserves re-examination. (pp. 306-17) GUIDO REBECCHINI, Exchanges of works of art at the court of Federico II Gonzaga with an appendix on Flemish art The paper investigates the ways that works of art were exchanged at the Mantuan court during the rule of Federico Gonzaga (1519-1540). The difference between the art market in Mantua - much conditioned by the monopolizing presence of the court - and that in other centres is stressed in order to show the different conditions under which Federico Gonzaga and his entourage operated at home and abroad. Finally, the recovery of a notarial contract of 1535 allows us to reconstruct a key episode for the introduction of Flemish pictures into Italy. This transaction not only throws new light on artistic life in Mantua in the age of Giulio Romano, but also demonstrates the complexity of the art market of the period as well as its lack of established patterns. (pp.381-91) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rupert Shepherd Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project Essex House University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, U.K. Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544 Fax +44 (0)1273 678644 [log in to unmask] http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~