The Centre de recherche du château de Versailles has launched the Visiteurs Database listing the accounts of foreign visitors to the domain, the Palace and the Court of Versailles, between the second half of the 17th century and the end of the 19th century. The database is part of the resear...
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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...The binomial art-money, nowadays even obvious, existed in the past as well, although through partially different forms and mechanisms. Traditionally one of the centres of the pictorial market was Rome, favourite destination of artists and travellers coming from every part of the globe. The book reco...
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 ...University of York, UK 8 December 2012 Travel for pleasure or health in Britain and Ireland first became widely available to the affluent middling classes in the eighteenth century. For much of the period 1700-1830 Britain was at war with at least one of its continental neighbours; possibilities...
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