From our forthcoming newsletter: As in previous years, the Society was enormously privileged to be offered a special visit to Masterpiece with an indepth discussion with Corrie Jackson, Senior Curator of the Royal Bank of Canada’s art collection. As Corrie explained, the bank decided to establish a collection of contemporary Canadian art and they now … Continue reading Society Event Report: Visit to Masterpiece, London, July 2019
Book Review: Paolo Coen, ed., The Art Market in Rome in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in the Social History of Art. Leiden: Brill, 2019 (review by Seren Nolan)
From our forthcoming newsletter: In the study of European art markets during the long eighteenth century, Rome has occupied a curiously liminal position. Despite its centrality as a location for the formulation of taste in this period, the markets of Paris and London have, by comparison, received far more scholarly attention. Indeed, as Paolo Coen … Continue reading Book Review: Paolo Coen, ed., The Art Market in Rome in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in the Social History of Art. Leiden: Brill, 2019 (review by Seren Nolan)
Society Event Report: Inaugural Weekend Visit to Chantilly, April 2019
From our forthcoming newsletter: Our first weekend tour focussed on French royal nineteenth-century history and collecting with visits to Chantilly, the Abbaye de Chaalis and Pierrefonds. The reason was the exhibition of drawings at Chantilly by Eugène Louis Lami (1800 –1890) painter to the Orleans family who worked extensively for the duc d’Aumale, creating many of … Continue reading Society Event Report: Inaugural Weekend Visit to Chantilly, April 2019
Society Event Report: Talk by Sir Nicholas Penny on Manfrin and Art Collecting in Italy, June 2019
From our forthcoming newsletter: Sir Nicholas Penny presented his audience with the story of what was to many an unknown Venetian collection from the 18th century as well as a feast of ideas, reflections and analysis of taste and acquisition. The Manfrin collection was created in the later 18th century by Count Girolomo Manfrin of … Continue reading Society Event Report: Talk by Sir Nicholas Penny on Manfrin and Art Collecting in Italy, June 2019
CONF: DHS Annual Conference 2019 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5-7 September 2019)
CONF: DHS Annual Conference 2019 (5-7 September 2019), Northumbria University at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dr Elizabeth Kramer, Academic Convener Dr Janine Barker, Academic Co-Convener This year’s theme ‘The Cost of Design’ explores the complexities of the historic and contemporary relationship between design and economy. Both ‘cost’ and ‘economy’ are to be considered beyond the financial. Cost … Continue reading CONF: DHS Annual Conference 2019 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5-7 September 2019)