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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