A Revolution in Taste: Francis Haskell’s Nineteenth Century
St Johns College, Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum, UK
23-24 October 2015
A two-day conference is to be held at St Johns College, Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum to explore the work of art historian Francis Haskell (1928-2000). Writing at the intersection of cultural history, art history and the history of ideas, Haskell made a seminal contribution to the study of the formation of taste in nineteenth-century Britain and Europe.
The conference will revisit terrain mapped out by Haskell in Rediscoveries in Art, namely the transformation of the art world between the 1770s and 1870s, a period when war, revolution, plunder and state-formation brought fundamental changes to the knowledge of and trade in Old Master paintings.
Session 1: Rediscoveries in Post-Revolutionary Europe – Chair: Christina Anderson
Charlotte Guichard, ‘Naming the Artist: Attribution and Artistic Expertise at the end of the Eighteenth Century’
Xanthe Brooke, ‘William Roscoe (1753-1831) and his collection of north European Renaissance art in Liverpool’
Véronique Gerard-Powell, ‘The Altamira collection and the Sale of Spanish Art in London’
Session 2: Art and Interpretation in Nineteenth-Century France – Chair: Frances Suzman Jowell
Camille Mathieu, ‘Breaking Up the Musuem of Rome: Mobility and the Antique in the Napoleonic Era, 1796-1817’
Richard Wrigley, ‘Ingres’ Monsieur Bertin and the Vicissitudes of Bourgeois Taste’
Juliet Simpson, ‘Reimagining the Northern Nineteenth Century: Art and the Politics of Patrimony in the French Third Republic’
Session 3: Private Palaces of Art – Chair: Arthur Macgregor
Susanna Avery-Quash, ‘Rediscovering John Julius Angerstein’s ‘other’ art collection at ‘Woodlands’, Blackheath’
Stephen Lloyd, ‘From Venice to Knowsley: the rediscovery and conservation of Borgognone’s series of paintings on silver-gilt leather, The Children of Israel’
Pauline Prévost-Marcilhacy, ‘The Pereire brothers and collecting in the Second Empire’
Session 4: History, Images and Criticism – Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova
Donata Levi, ‘Rediscovering Crowe’
Jenny Graham, ‘Afterlives: Rewriting Giorgio Vasari in the Nineteenth Century’
Jon Whiteley, ‘Francis Haskell and Nineteenth-Century French Art’
Session 5: Exhibitions and Ephemeral Museums – Chair: Linda Whiteley
Jeremy Warren, ‘A Nineteenth-Century Phenomenon: The Birth of the New Kunstkammer’
Cécilia Hurley Griener, ‘Juggling with Masterpieces in the Long Nineteenth Century’
Bénédicte Savoy, ‘Les spoliations napoléonniennes’
Session 6: Collecting Dynasties – Chair: Adriana Turpin
Charles Sebag-Montefiore, ‘The Barings: A Dynasty of Art Collectors’
Dora Thornton, ‘Reinterpreting a Rothschild Schatzkammer at the British Museum: the Waddesdon Bequest’
Tom Stammers & Silvia Davoli, ‘Orléans and Bonaparte in Exile: Collecting at the End of the Age of Revolutions’
(…more at Ashmolean Museum website…)