1) The following from Angelica Pediconi:

For List members who might be interested:

Mercoledi 27 aprile 2005, alle ore 18,30 presso l' Accademia Nazionale di
San Luca, Piazza dell'Accademia di San Luca in Roma
il Direttore dell'Istituto Centrale per il Restauro ha presentato il volume:
"Ricette vetrarie muranesi. Gasparo Brunoro e il manoscritto di Danzica" a
cura di Cesare Moretti, Carlo Stefano Salerno, Sabina Tommasi
Ferroni,I.C.R. Nardini Editore

 >Il volume è in vendita sia singolarmente sia come allegato al numero 6/7
 >del Bollettino dell'ICR.
 ><http://www.icr.beniculturali.it/Bollettino/Sei_sette/bollettino00.htm>http://www.icr.beniculturali.it/Bollettino/Sei_sette/bollettino00.htm
 >
 >Si aggiunge una breve scheda sulla pubblicazione:
 >"Numero si gli aspetti di Novità dello studio condotto da Cesare Moretti,
 >chimico, direttore tecnico di vetreria per molti anni, Carlo Stefano
 >Salerno, restauratore presso l'ICR e storico dell'arte, Sabina Tommasi
 >Ferroni, restrauratrice e storica dell'arte. Il dato tecnico e tecnologico,
 >che solo apparentemente sembra prevalere, torna a recuperare quello più
 >strettamente storico e storico artistico, e ad affrontare problemi di
 >natura anche estetica e stilistica. Il confronto, inoltre, con altri
 >ricettari permette osservazioni relative ai taccuini originali, alle
 >trascrizioni, agli errori, ai percorsi attraverso i quali avveniva la
 >trasmissione di una tecnologia così preziosa.
 >Il volume si rivela di grande utilità anche per la nuova luce che getta
 >sulla struttura di altri ricettari e per le informazioni sui laboratori di
 >chimica dal Quattrocento alla metà del Seicento.
 > La consultazione è resa particolarmente funzionale grazie all'ausilio di
 >tabelle e tavole di confronto che permettono di cogliere aspetti particolari
 >legati alle specifiche tipologie.
 > Si segnala infine che le ricette contenute nel manoscritto sono relative
 >non solo alla produzione di manufatti in vetro, realizzati con le raffinate
 >tecniche muranesi, ma anche alla produzione di smalti per oreficeria, alla
 >imitazione di pietre preziose e al mosaico.

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2. The Italian Art Society is sponsoring a session on "The Domestic 
Interior in Renaissance Italy" at the Renaissance Society of America's 
annual meeting in San Francisco, 23-25 March 2006:

"Renewed interest in the domestic interior and material culture should make 
for a lively and provocative panel. As scholars have returned to the study 
of decorated ceilings and floors, spalliere, furniture, deschi da parto, 
devotional objects and paintings, sumptuous tableware, maiolica, textiles, 
and even graffiti, we have a new opportunity to consider the effect of the 
domestic interior on Renaissance identity formation. I am seeking papers 
that cover a broad chronological range, circa 1300-1600, that address 
republican city states as well as court centers, and that consider both 
elite and popular patrons or audiences. For example, topics might range 
from actual interiors to fictive interior spaces; they might engage the 
domestic interior in a dialogue with exterior spaces like facades, logge or 
gardens, and they might conmpare Neo-Renaissance examples with historical 
interiors."

Abstracts should be submitted by 15 MAY 2005 to the session chair:
Cristelle Baskins, Associate Professor
Art and Art Hiosyory
11 Talbot Avenue
Tufts University
Medford, MA02155
USA
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3. The Wallace Collection History of Collection Seminars for 2005 include:

July 13th       Dr Marika Leino
‘The collection of Jacopo Francesco Arpino (1606-1684) in Turin’

Seminars take place in the Lecture Theatre at the Wallace Collection.

Start 4.30pm and finish by 6.30pm.

To reserve a place on this seminar please email 
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or call 020 7563 9515.

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4. From H-ARTHIST. Outside the list's usual Italianate focus, I know, but 
note the description of the new display at the Walters in the explanatory text.

From: H. Perry Chapman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 26 Apr 2005
Subject: CFP: From Icon to Art (Washington, 8-12 Nov 06)

 From Icon to Art in the Netherlands
Washington/Baltimore
November 8-12, 2006
Conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Art

Call for Sessions and Workshops
The conference organizing committee is soliciting session and workshop
proposals for the upcoming conference of the Historians of
Netherlandish Art to be held in Washington and Baltimore, November
8-12, 2006. It will coincide with two important exhibitions of
Netherlandish art, Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish
Diptych, at the National Gallery of Art, and, at the Walters Art
Museum, a new installation of the Old Master galleries, based on a
provocative, contextual approach featuring the Collections of Art and
Wonders belonging to a 17th century Nobleman in Flanders (entry
gallery of arms and armor, private study, chamber of wonders) and the
Cabinet Galleries of a Dutchman in the circle of William and Mary
around 1700. In light of the conjunction of these exhibitions, the
conference will be devoted to the theme “From Icon to Art in the
Netherlands.”

Sessions:
Though proposed sessions need not be in concert with the conference’s
focus on the shift from art in the age of devotion to art in the age
of collecting, we encourage proposals that explore aspects of this
overarching theme, from any point on the spectrum and from the widest
possible variety of perspectives and approaches.
Workshops:
We also invite proposals for workshops in which relatively small
groups of people discuss particular issues in the field. Workshop
proposals should include an explanation of how discussion will be
generated. This could involve the circulation of a text to
pre-registered participants or brief presentations by a guest or a
panel, but any contribution should serve to stimulate discussion.
Proposals are specifically invited for a workshop (limited to 12
people) to be held in the Walters Rare Book Room; for one or more to
be held in the Chamber of Wonders (limited to about 30; role of
miracles in Christian art; science, technology and art; virtuosity;
materials; collecting; presentation of art; etc.); and for one in one
of the Dutch Cabinet Galleries (limited to about 12).
Prospective session and workshop proposals should be sent via e-mail
and as hard copy by October 1, 2005 to:

H. Perry Chapman
10925 Kenilworth Ave.
PO Box 85
Garrett Park, MD 20896-0085
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Website:
Historians of Netherlandish Art
http://www.hnanews.org/2002/Callfor.htm

Conference Program Committee
H. Perry Chapman
Melanie Gifford
Larry Silver
Joaneath Spicer
Ron Spronk
Conference Organizers
Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Quint Gregory




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