International conference "Buying Art and Antiquities in Eighteenth Century Italy" (online, 4, 11, 18, 23th Nov.- 2nd Dec. 2021, UNED, Madrid) To get online access (ZOOM): dojeda@geo.uned.es; diezdelcorral@geo.uned.es Also available in streaming (without registration): https://canal.uned.es/live/event/615d5ddfb6092370f0279a25 This conference is part of the results of the I+D+i project (PID2020-117326GB-I00), FAKE- La perdurabilidad del engaño: Falsificación de Antigüedades … Continue reading CONF: “Buying Art and Antiquities in Eighteenth Century Italy” (online, 4, 11, 18, 23th Nov.- 2nd Dec. 2021, Madrid)
SHC: Re-interpreting an Eighteenth Century Collection: Henry Hoare the collector, a Roman statue, and a lost wife (16 July 2020, 6.30pm BST)
The Society for the History of Collecting Invites you to its third online lecture Re-interpreting an Eighteenth Century Collection: Henry Hoare the collector, a Roman statue, and a lost wife Prof. John Harrison 16 July, 2020 6.30pm BST Modern readings of the iconography in Henry Hoare’s eighteenth-century landscape garden at Stourhead in Wiltshire have typically … Continue reading SHC: Re-interpreting an Eighteenth Century Collection: Henry Hoare the collector, a Roman statue, and a lost wife (16 July 2020, 6.30pm BST)
CFP: Women and the Art and Science of Collecting: Eighteenth-Century Collecting Beyond Europe
Call for Essays Women and the Art and Science of Collecting: Eighteenth-Century Collecting Beyond Europe Edited by Dr. Arlene Leis and Dr. Kacie Wills We are inviting chapter abstracts for a collection of essays designed for academics, specialists, and enthusiasts interested in the interrelations between art and science in women’s collections and collecting practices beyond … Continue reading CFP: Women and the Art and Science of Collecting: Eighteenth-Century Collecting Beyond Europe
CONF: Engaging Objects. Looking at Art with Malcolm Baker (Riverside, 21 February 2020)
Subject: CONF: Engaging Objects. Looking at Art with Malcolm Baker (Riverside, 21 Feb 20) University of California Riverside, Center for Ideas and Society, February 21, 2020 Looking at art with Malcolm Baker is always an adventure. This conference celebrates Distinguished Professor Emeritus Baker’s scholarship and his time at UCR, from 2007 to 2019. Baker is … Continue reading CONF: Engaging Objects. Looking at Art with Malcolm Baker (Riverside, 21 February 2020)
ANN: “Goncourt Brothers and the Taste for the Eighteenth Century,” (28 January 2020, The Frick Collection)
ANN: “Goncourt Brothers and the Taste for the Eighteenth Century,” The Frick Collection, Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Presented by the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, this two-part lecture examines the life and enduring influence of brothers Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, nineteenth-century connoisseurs and collectors who … Continue reading ANN: “Goncourt Brothers and the Taste for the Eighteenth Century,” (28 January 2020, The Frick Collection)