Edited by Joanna Marschner with the assistance of David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford With essays by Glenn Adamson, A. Cassandra Albinson, Robyn Asleson, Wolf Burchard, Donald Burrows, Lisa L. Ford, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Florence Grant, Tyler Griffith, Mark Hallet, Craig Ashley Hanson, Samantha Howard,...
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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...Les sœurs de Napoléon Ier, Élisa, Pauline et Caroline, eurent toutes trois un destin italien : la première fut élevée par son frère au rang de princesse de Lucques, puis de grande-duchesse de Toscane, représentante de l’Empereur en Italie. La deuxième épousa un prince romain, Camille Bor...
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 18 June–8 September 2013 This exhibition highlights the ingenuity, beauty, and wit often found in designs for the decorative arts, and follows the dynamic development of shapes, ornaments, and materials alternately governed by issues of comfort...
Continue reading ...Universally recognized as a brilliant and gifted 18th-century artist, Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough. Yet he has remained without a detailed study of his life and works, owing...
Continue reading ...National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA 20 February-30 May 2011 Venice inspired a school of competitive view painters whose achievements are among the most brilliant in 18th-century art. The exhibition celebrates the rich variety of these Venetian views, known as vedute, through some 20 mast...
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 ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 2 March-13 June 2010 The Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) of Jean de Berry, a treasure of The Cloisters collection, is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because it is currently unbound, it is possible t...
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 20 January-18 April 2010 This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and presents nearly all the known drawings by or attributed to this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A p...
Continue reading ...Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM 10 October 2009-17 January 2010 Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts re-examines the world of the maharajas and their extraordinarily rich culture. The exhibition spans the period from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid-20...
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 ...National Portrait Gallery and The Courtauld Institute of Art 2-4 December 2010 Session of note: Section 3: Patronage for portraiture and the use of documentary and technical evidence [Frederick Hepburn (Independent Scholar): The earliest evidence for portaiture at the court of Henry VII; Tarn...
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...
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