The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture Organised by the Italian Chapter Collecting family portraits in Medici Florence Pasquale Focarile, Research Collaborator, IMT Lucca Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 18.30 (CET), 17.30 (BST) Against the backdrop of collecting genres, the collection of family portraits was a global phenomenon and a … Continue reading Collecting family portraits in Medici Florence (20 Apr, 2022)
Harvard Art Museums: Collections and Reconsiderations (14 Apr, 2022)
The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture Organised by the West Coast Chapter Harvard Art Museums: Collections and Reconsiderations Miriam Stewart, Harvard Art Museums Thursday, 14 April 2022, 11 am (PT)/1 pm (CT)/2 pm (ET)/7 pm (BST), 8 pm (CET) Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum opened its doors … Continue reading Harvard Art Museums: Collections and Reconsiderations (14 Apr, 2022)
ANN: Anne Helmreich: Charting our Future. Art Market Studies and Provenance Research in the Digital Age (The Hugo Helbing Lecture 2022, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich / online, 27 Apr 2022, 18:15-20:00 CET)
‘Here be dragons’, a trope used by western early modern map makers to signify uncharted or dangerous territories may also describe attitudes to digital approaches in art history within certain circles. But if we aim to understand the histories of art markets at scale and over space and time, we must set sail. This talk … Continue reading ANN: Anne Helmreich: Charting our Future. Art Market Studies and Provenance Research in the Digital Age (The Hugo Helbing Lecture 2022, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich / online, 27 Apr 2022, 18:15-20:00 CET)
ANN: Emperor Rudolf II’s Paintings Collection Revisited: New Ideas and Perspectives – Lecture by Štěpán Vácha (Collecting Central Europe, 22 Mar 2022, 7pm; online)
Rudolf’s art collections represent an extensive field of research with a wide range of opinions. The current discourse oscillates between the idea of a private museum accessible only to the emperor and court artists and a semi-public collection conceived in the symbolic meaning as the form of sovereign representation. Scholars have mainly paid attention to the … Continue reading ANN: Emperor Rudolf II’s Paintings Collection Revisited: New Ideas and Perspectives – Lecture by Štěpán Vácha (Collecting Central Europe, 22 Mar 2022, 7pm; online)
Reminder for Workshop Soliation and Recovery of Art and Antiquities from Italy (22 Mar, 2022)
Register to join the Workshop Soliation and Recovery of Art and Antiquities from Italy before 12pm GMT this Tuesday, 22 March at events@societyhistorycollecting.org Conference begins at 3pm GMT Details of the Programme First Session with Break 15.10-16.40 Barbara Furlotti, (Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld) “It is difficult to get statues out of Rome”: Exporting and smuggling antiquities … Continue reading Reminder for Workshop Soliation and Recovery of Art and Antiquities from Italy (22 Mar, 2022)