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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA 24 June-19 September 1010 In 1829, the young artist John Scarlett Davis sought to make a splash on the London art scene with his painting The Interior of the British Institution Gallery. An image of an art exhibition, the painting is also an elabor...
Continue reading ...Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2-3 December 2010 Rome—with its cardinals and international ambassadors to the papal court, its ancient barons and its newcomers trying to appear as if they descended from Caesar, all building, expanding, remodeling, and furnishing magnificent palaces, or try...
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