Subject: CFP: 3 Sessions at AAH 2020 (Birmingham, 14-16 Apr 21) Association for Art History’s 47th Annual Conference (AAH), University of Birmingham, April 14 - 17, 2021 Deadline: Oct 19, 2020 [1] Why Trompe l’Oeil? The art of deception across the boundaries of time and space [2] The Space Between Non-Arts and Fine Arts: Confronting Gender and … Continue reading CFP: 3 Sessions at AAH 2020 (Birmingham, 14-16 April 21)
CFP: Renaissance conference (Paris, 10-12 March 2021)
Subject: CFP: Renaissance conference (Paris, 10-12 Mar 21) Paris, March 10 - 12, 2021 Deadline: Sep 15, 2020 Call for Papers Paris, 10-12 March 2021: Renaissance conference. Organised by the Art History departments of: Universidad de Jaén; Universität Leipzig; École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL (HISTARA) in Paris and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. With the support of the … Continue reading CFP: Renaissance conference (Paris, 10-12 March 2021)
SHC Report: Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika.
Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika. Over this period of lockdown, shielding or imposed furlough, many of us have turned to reading crime novels. However, within our field there has been enough criminal activity to absorb art historians. Hackers posing as London art dealer Simon C. Dickinson Ltd tricked the Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede, Netherlands) … Continue reading SHC Report: Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika.
SHC Notice: Henry Hoare the Collector. A notice by John Harrison.
Henry Hoare the Collector. A notice by John Harrison. The banker Henry Hoare (1705-1785) is perhaps best known for the extant eighteenth-century landscape garden at Stourhead in Wiltshire. However, Henry was also a prodigious collector of fine art and of artefacts purchased whilst on Grand Tour in 1739-1740. Probably the most famous example of his … Continue reading SHC Notice: Henry Hoare the Collector. A notice by John Harrison.
SHC Review: Charlotte Guichard, Bénédicte Savoy, Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on on Western Markets (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika
Charlotte Guichard, Bénédicte Savoy, Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on on Western Markets (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika. Bénédicte Savoy is also known to us from her report written together with the Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr on sub-Saharan cultural material in Europe. Their report was so persuasive, it led to President … Continue reading SHC Review: Charlotte Guichard, Bénédicte Savoy, Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on on Western Markets (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika