By Elizabeth Angelicoussis Begun by Gavin Hamilton (1723–98), one of the most prominent British explorers of classical sites of the eighteenth century, the Lansdowne Collection came to hold more than one hundred stellar examples of classical statuary, displayed in a specially designed gallery i...
Continue reading ...Exhibition: 23 September-31 December 2017 Conference: 10-11 November 2017 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA Nearly 100 years ago, the Wadsworth Atheneum received an extraordinary gift of more than 1,350 works of art from the collection of financier J. Pierpont Morgan. These objects, an arra...
Continue reading ...The British School at Rome (via A. Gramsci, 61) 22 June 2017 A cura di Francesca Parrilla e Matteo Borchia I sezione Linda Borean (Università di Udine): L’artista nel ruolo di collezionista nella Venezia barocca Cecilia Vicentini (Università eCampus/Università di Ferrara): Invent...
Continue reading ...Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, NY, USA 3-4 March 2017 This two-day symposium focuses on collections of American art formed during the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century and concludes with a conversation with Alice Walton, the greatest ...
Continue reading ...University of Leeds, UK 30–31 March 2017 The Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques Market at the University of Leeds announces the international two-day conference exploring the relationship between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ spheres of the art market and the museum. This interd...
Continue reading ...Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, FRANCE 20-21 October 2016 The focus of the conference is to explore the changing and complex nature of the role of agent in the art market during the Early Modern Period. Papers will explore shifts in the dynamics of the market, the changing...
Continue reading ...Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK 7 October 2016 This conference is the first in a series associated with the Paul Mellon Centre’s flagship research project Art in the British Country House: Collecting and Display, which investigates the collection and display of works ...
Continue reading ...The Frick Center for the History of Collecting in America, New York, NY, USA, 28 June 2016 American collectors at the turn of the 20th century eagerly sought out Medieval and Renaissance art once held in the collection of the notorious art dealer Frédéric Spitzer, 1816–1890. Paola Cordera,...
Continue reading ...Antonio Naval Más Esta publicación ha sido concebida en la misma línea del anteriormente publicado Patrimonio Emigrado, del que es complemento. Se trata de un estudio de diversas obras de procedencia aragonesa –centrándose en obras medievales y del sigo XVI- basándose en el trabajo de camp...
Continue reading ...5–7 November 2015 Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence, ITALY While individual empires have been studied extensively, it is only in recent decades that they have been examined from comparative political, social and cultural perspectives. It is also only recently that scholarship in history of collecti...
Continue reading ...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 ...
Continue reading ...By Edgar Peters Bowron This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787), one of the 18th century’s most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from popes, princes, and...
Continue reading ...By Joan Coutu In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals. By charting this changing preference within a broader study of material culture, Joan Coutu examines...
Continue reading ...Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe GERMANY 30 May — 6 September 2015 The centrepiece of the show will be the presentation of Karoline Luise’s Mahlerey Cabinet, a collection that once boasted more than 200 paintings, most of which are still preserved in the Kunsthalle today. Her original collect...
Continue reading ...Edited by Inge Reist, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950 14 essays examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States. Unlike most of th...
Continue reading ...National Gallery, London, UK 5 March 2015 This one-day scholarly conference encourages fresh thinking about 18th-century country houses as environments that were always evolving, animated by interactions between objects and people. Organised by the National Gallery, Birkbeck (University of ...
Continue reading ...Giles Waterfield This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, M...
Continue reading ...Kristel Smentek Series : Studies in Art Historiography Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of...
Continue reading ...Ruth Guilding In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the motives that drove “Marble Mania” ...
Continue reading ...Edited by Christoph Vogtherr, Wallace Collection, UK and Monica Preti and Guillaume Faroult, Musée du Louvre, France The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection...
Continue reading ...Editors: Patrick Eyres and James Lomax Lord Raby’s celebrated silver wine cistern was saved for the nation after a major appeal in 2011. It was part of the spectacular group of silver provided by the government for his important embassy to Berlin (1705-1711). He received even more silver as ambas...
Continue reading ...As a regent he gave the young kingdom of Württemberg a historical identity; his multifarious initiatives as a collector and patron, however, have all but sunk into oblivion. The holdings of the Staatsgalerie, which opened in 1843, were expanded by artworks in royal ownership as well as by personal ...
Continue reading ...Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, GERMANY 10–12 September 2014 Caroline Louise of Baden (1723–1783) shaped the art collection of the margraves of Baden more than any other before or since. Her original collection included Dutch masterpieces of the 17th century and great works of French painti...
Continue reading ...Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, ITALY 24 June-8 December 2014 This exhibition proposes to offer a critical-bibliographic picture of this very important cultural phenomenon concerning the history of taste and collecting in Italy between the late XVIII century and early XIX century. Among othe...
Continue reading ...Mapping Titian allows users to visualize one of the most fundamental concerns of the discipline of Art History: the interrelationship between an artwork and its changing historical context. Focusing on the paintings executed by the Venetian Renaissance artist, Titian (ca. 1488-1576), this site offer...
Continue reading ...Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, London, UK 6 June 2014 Great Collectors of Our Time. The title of James Stourton’s fascinating survey of art collecting since the Second World War sounds comprehensive and assured, and rightly so. The second half of the 20th century saw the formation ...
Continue reading ...Diana Scarisbrick Benjamin Zucker Elihu Yale (1649–1721) is famous for the name of Yale University, of which he was an early benefactor. He made his fortune in India, trading in diamonds. Arriving there in 1672, he rose through the East India Company from clerk to governor. When he returned to...
Continue reading ...Schwaben Akademie, Kloster Irsee, GERMANY 13-16 June 2014 Cabinets of prints and drawings belong to the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. Some of them achieved astounding longevity such as the Florentine Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi. The fame which they acquired then d...
Continue reading ...The Institute of Historical Research and The Wallace Collection, London, UK 1 & 2 July 2014 With the developing interest in the history of collecting, this two-day workshop aims to bring out new research in the area of collecting and art markets in the early modern era 1700-1900. The...
Continue reading ...Paul Mellon British Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK 2 May 2014 This one-day conference will address the issue of connoisseurship in relation to historic, modern and contemporary British art studies. Speakers from different sphere - art dealers, museum curators, conservators, art...
Continue reading ...Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA August 10, 2013 – February 24, 2014 European art of the 18th century increasingly emphasized civility, elegance, comfort, and informality. During the first half of the century, the Rococo style of art and decoration, characterized by lightnes...
Continue reading ...Guido Cornini and Claudia Lega Catalogue for the exhibition held at Sala delle Nozze Aldobrandini, Musei Vaticani, Rome. This exhibition will bring back to life in the Vatican the charm of the eighteenth-century collections of the Profane Museums at the time of Pius VI, before the Napoleonic r...
Continue reading ...P. Humfrey (ed.) This volume comprises sixteen essays on the reception of Titian by British painters, collectors and critics in the long nineteenth century. The main focus falls on the first three decades of the century, in the aftermath of the exhibition of the celebrated Orléans collection in ...
Continue reading ...Stéphane Castelluccio This beautifully illustrated volume traces the changing market for Chinese and Japanese porcelain in Paris from the early years of the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1715) through the eighteenth century. The increase in the quantity and variety of East Asian wares imported duri...
Continue reading ...Alexandra Stara, Kingston University, UK Series : The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950 The first volume in two centuries on Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments in Paris, this study presents a comprehensive picture of a seminal project of French Revolutionary ...
Continue reading ...Edited by Richard Aste A critical contribution to the burgeoning field of Spanish colonial art, Behind Closed Doors reveals how art and luxury goods together signaled the identity and status of Spanish Americans struggling to claim their place in a fluid New World hierarchy. By the early sixteen...
Continue reading ...Samuel Quiccheberg Introduction by Mark A. Meadow Translation by Mark A. Meadow and Bruce Robertson Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity cabinets, or Wunderkammern, to princely collectors i...
Continue reading ...Ting Chang, University of Nottingham, UK Series : The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950 Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, ...
Continue reading ...Gallery at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, NY, USA 4 April-11 August 2013 The exhibition features more than 200 objects of primarily medieval art and French eighteenth-century paneling, furniture, metalwork, textiles, paintings, and scu...
Continue reading ...L'exposition réunit deux cents œuvres, sculptures, peintures, dessins, gravures, tapisseries, pièces de mobilier et objets d’art, provenant principalement du musée du Louvre et du château de Versailles. La scénographie, conçue par le metteur en scène Pier Luigi Pizzi, tend à créer la ...
Continue reading ...Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA 10 January-23 February 2013 The exhibition aims to evoke the manner in which collections – known as quadrerie – were formed in Italy in the 18th and 19th Centuries, as well as the way in which they were displayed, covering entire walls of the palazzo that...
Continue reading ...The exhibition traces the development of illustrated catalogues of cabinets of curiosities. In the 16th century, European collectors filled special rooms or cabinets with miscellaneous conglomerations of items, including paintings and drawings; plant specimens (especially those with medicinal pro...
Continue reading ...What is art worth? How can a work by Pablo Picasso be sold for more than $100,000,000? This fascinating book explains the market for art—and art’s value for all of us. In straightforward prose that doesn’t mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michae...
Continue reading ...Beginning in 1933, Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German officials to surrender their treasures - paintings, manuscripts, musical instruments, and all manner of objets d'art. Collectors reluctantly agreed to one-sided sales of masterpieces at ludicrously low prices in excha...
Continue reading ...Le propos de cet ouvrage porte sur les collectionneurs de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle, et son enjeu consiste à cerner la spécificité d'un collectionneur par rapport aux formes anciennes et contemporaines de la collection. Si Jean de Jullienne demeure la figure privilégiée de ce trava...
Continue reading ...This catalogue records an exhibition that pays tribute to the Prince Eugene of Savoy’s many achievements. It is held in the lower half of the Belvedere in Vienna, a two-part palace that is a contender for the title of the most imposing townhouse ever built, and which Eugene spent over a decade com...
Continue reading ...Questa pubblicazione, la terza di una collana specificatamente dedicata al collezionismo artistico a Venezia in età moderna, prende in esame il Settecento, il secolo definito della "gloria" di Venezia, particolarmente ricco e articolato per l'evoluzione del gusto e degli orientamenti del fenomeno, ...
Continue reading ...A dozen years ago the art dealer Richard L. Feigen attended an auction of European paintings at Sotheby’s in London and found a picture he liked: a richly colored scene of a religious vision, with a hovering saint and four angels, all topped by shimmering gold halos, that was attributed to a minor...
Continue reading ...In Room 38 of the Louvre’s Richelieu Wing hangs “The Astronomer” by the Dutch master Jan Vermeer. It is an exquisite painting. The stargazer sits before a celestial globe, his fingers spanning the constellation Pegasus. He wears a teal Japanese silk robe, a style favored by Dutch burghers in t...
Continue reading ...Quantity took priority over quality in Hermann Goering’s sprawling art collection, much of it plundered from Jews. His gluttony for oil canvases becomes clear in Nancy Yeide’s Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, the first comprehensive catalog of as many as 1,800 wor...
Continue reading ...Founded in 1872, the Munich based Galerie Heinemann was one of the most important German art dealing companies until it got "aryanized" by the National Socialists in 1938. In 1972, the Heinemann family gave the remaining business records of the gallery to the Deutsches Kunstarchiv at the Germanis...
Continue reading ...When it comes to art, “private” and “public” take on confused, tangled meanings. In Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice, Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow show the extent to which European museums profited from the chaos following World War II....
Continue reading ...The European expansion to Asia was driven by the desire for spices and Asian luxury products. Its results, however, exceeded the mere exchange of commodities and precious metals. The meeting of Asia and Europe signaled not only the beginnings of a global market but also a change in taste and lifesty...
Continue reading ...Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., was counted among the foremost French and American art dealers in antiquities and decorative arts and was among the first to foster and support the growth and appreciation for collecting in the field of contemporary European art. The company's clients included most...
Continue reading ...The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA 30 April-10 July 2011 Though Renaissance-era prints are typically kept out of sight in museum vaults today, these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life—used, abused, adored, and adorned by their owners. Through over 100 objects, this...
Continue reading ...Specific Object/David Platzker, New York, NY, USA 28 February-29 April 2011 The exhibition celebrates two unique books: Sammlung Ludwig : Art of the Sixties and Hans Haacke’s The Chocolate Master / Der Pralinenmeister.The amalgam of these two publications not only reflect on the economics and ...
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 12 October 2010-2 January 2011 In the 18th century, privileged Europeans embarked on the Grand Tour, traveling principally to sites in Italy, where they visited cherished ruins of the ancient world and the splendid architecture of the Renaissance...
Continue reading ...Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, USA 13 April-27 May 2010 The exhibition documents the amazing, unerring eye and acquisitive passion of the colorful New York couple who dominated the contemporary art world in the 1960s and early 1970s. (...more at Acquavella Galleries website...)...
Continue reading ...Mauritshuis, The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS 25 March-27 June 2010 The exhibition will focus on a unique genre of painting: cabinet pictures known as ‘kunstkamers’. This genre originated in Antwerp, and the paintings depict rooms filled to the brim with artworks, like tiny fanciful museums. Three...
Continue reading ...Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX, USA 7 March-18 July 2010 Royal Splendor is the world's first major exhibition to showcase the exceptional art collection of King Charles IV of Spain (1748-1819). The exhibition, for which the Meadows Museum will be the exclusive venue outside of Spain, offers visitors...
Continue reading ...Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM 6 March-4 July 2010 Over a period of some 40 years (1747–90) Walpole turned the 17th-century house at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Surrey, into what he called 'a little Gothic Castle'. It quickly became a famous tourist attraction. Walpole h...
Continue reading ...Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, SWITZERLAND 1 October 2009-29 August 2010 The exhibition will illustrate a consequential phenomenon that first emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries in the former Low Countries: the rapid expansion of the art market. (...more at Ville de Genève website.....
Continue reading ...Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, ITALY 1 October-12 November 2009 Il giorno 1 ottobre 2009 si inaugurerà alla Marucelliana di Firenze una mostra dedicata al più importante nucleo della collezione grafica della Biblioteca, quello dei disegni cinque-seicenteschi. Tali fogli (e in specie quel...
Continue reading ...Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK 15-16 June 2012 In 1615, Vincenzo Scamozzi highlighted the importance in Venice of the merchant-collectors Bartolomeo dalla Nave and Daniel Nijs by including descriptions of their collections in his L’Idea della architettura universale. Scholarship ...
Continue reading ...Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, FRANCE 31 May-1 June 2011 Collectionner, étudier, restaurer : trop souvent dissociées dans les travaux consacrés au devenir moderne de l’antique, ces trois pratiques étroitement liées au cours du temps n’ont cessé de s’influencer et de se...
Continue reading ...The Frick Center for the History of Collecting in America, New York, NY, USA 6-7 May 2011 Fifteen speakers examine British collecting practices during the nineteenth century and discussed how subsequent generations of American collectors embraced the British tradition while developing their own ...
Continue reading ...Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA, USA 16 October 2010 Years before he became a collector of ancient art, J. Paul Getty visited William Randolph Hearst at his San Simeon estate. Hearst Castle historian Victoria Kastner explores the relationship between these two iconic California collectors, pa...
Continue reading ...Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA 7 October 2010 Dagmar Eichberger, professor of European art history at the University of Heidelberg, investigates how illustrated manuscripts enriched the lives of female patrons around 1500. Focusing on Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, Eichberger expl...
Continue reading ...Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, FRANCE 25-26 June 2010 A l'aube du XIXème siècle, un nombre croissant de collectionneurs d'art s'intéressent en France et en Allemagne à une période de la peinture jusqu'alors largement laissée dans l'ombre : celle des primitifs italiens. Des c...
Continue reading ...Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 15-16 April 2010 A conference organized by Birkbeck, University of London; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the Yale Center for British Art; the Lewis Walpole Library. Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre. This conference brings together academic a...
Continue reading ...Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL, USA 10-13 February 2010 Notable sessions include: Maureen Pelta (chair): Lost! [Kandice Rawlings: The Pull of the Unknown: Jan van Eyck's Saint Jerome; Arthur J. Di Furia: "Outstanding works ... shamefully destroyed": Maerten van Heemskerck's Lost Altarpieces and th...
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