COLLECTING & DISPLAY – 7th JULY 2017 WORKSHOP ‘COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS: DISPLAY AND TASTE IN THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS’ For further information and booking please contact a.turpin@iesa.edu 9.30 Registration 9.45 Opening remarks MORNING SESSION: Chair Dr. Dora Thornton, Curator of the Waddesdon Bequest and Renaissance Europe, British Museum 10.00- Lina Malfona, Adjunct Professor, Sapienza … Continue reading Collecting and Display Workshop, 7 July 2017, London
SEM: Conversing a Great Deal with Pictures: William Byrd II and his Portrait Collection by Ingrid Steiner, Monday 24 April 2017, London
Monthly Seminar on Collecting and Display: Conversing a Great Deal with Pictures: William Byrd II and his Portrait Collection, by Ingrid Steiner, California State University When: Monday 24 April 2017, at 6pm Where: Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, London WC 1E 7HU All welcome. In July 1736, William Byrd II (1674-1741) wrote to his friend, Anglo-Irish … Continue reading SEM: Conversing a Great Deal with Pictures: William Byrd II and his Portrait Collection by Ingrid Steiner, Monday 24 April 2017, London
CONF: Travelling Objects Ambasciatori dello scambio culturale tra Italia e Regno Asburgico/ Botschafter des Kulturtransfers zwischen Italien und dem Habsburgerreich, Rome, 19-20 May 2017
Conference: International Conference: 'Travelling Objects Ambasciatori dello scambio culturale tra Italia e Regno Asburgico/ Botschafter des Kulturtransfers zwischen Italien und dem Habsburgerreich' Date and Time: 19-20 May 2017 Venue: Rome, Istituto Storico Austriaco (ÖHI), Viale Bruno Buozzi 111-113, 00197 Roma Conference convenors: Silvia Tammaro (silvia.tammaro@univie.ac.at) / Gernot Mayer (gernot.mayer@univie.ac.at) PROGRAMMA Venerdì 19 maggio 2017 09:30-10:00 … Continue reading CONF: Travelling Objects Ambasciatori dello scambio culturale tra Italia e Regno Asburgico/ Botschafter des Kulturtransfers zwischen Italien und dem Habsburgerreich, Rome, 19-20 May 2017
CONF: Rethinking Museums Politically: Berlin’s Altes Museum, Museum Island and the (reconstructed) City Palace, Berlin, 11-12 May 2017
Rethinking Museums Politically: Berlin’s Altes Museum, Museum Island and the (reconstructed) City Palace Date and Time: 11-12 May 2017 Venue: Berlin, Technische Universität Practical details: Conference language is English. Participation is free. No registration required. Convenors: Dr Annette Loeseke, New York University Berlin Dr Andrea Meyer, Technische Universität Berlin Since its opening in 1830, Karl … Continue reading CONF: Rethinking Museums Politically: Berlin’s Altes Museum, Museum Island and the (reconstructed) City Palace, Berlin, 11-12 May 2017
Conference Report: Paris and Berlin, October 2016
All the Beauty of the World, Berlin, October 13-15, 2016 As the title indicated, this conference gathered together researchers working on many different areas and covering collecting practices from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries. The aim was to explore the different ways markets developed for non-European works of art, how these works … Continue reading Conference Report: Paris and Berlin, October 2016