13-15 October 2016 Bauakademie am Schinkelplatz, Berlin, GERMANY In the wake of the Western expansion, a fast growing number of non-European artefacts entered the European market. They initially made their way into princely cabinets of curiosities. Made possible by the forced opening and exploit...
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 ...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 ...Maureen McCue Series : Studies in Art Historiography As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period auth...
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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA 14 September 2010-9 January 2011 Never before seen by the public, the contents of an Emperor’s private retreat deep within the Forbidden City will be revealed for the first time at the Peabody Essex Museum. (...more at PEM website...)...
Continue reading ...National Gallery, London, UNITED KINGDOM 30 June-12 December 2010 The exhibition will showcase some of the most intriguing stories behind paintings in the National Gallery, as it explores the ways in which advances in scholarship and technology can reveal the misconceptions of the past. Working ...
Continue reading ...The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA 8 December 2009-28 February 2010 Telling the difference between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50 documented students, Rembrandt taught all of them to draw in his style. Together, th...
Continue reading ...Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK 18 October 2010 Session of note: Jenkins, Senior Curator, English Heritage (chair): Afternoon Session I [Cinzia Maria Sicca, Associate Professor of the History of European Art, University of Pisa: 'One of the most excellent Masters that Italy has produced i...
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