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: 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)
Instagram Stories: Collection Series with Adriana Concin
Join us this Friday for another Stories take over with Adriana Concin. Adriana is a fourth-year PhD student in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She is currently finishing her thesis on the cultural and artistic exchanges between the Austrian Habsburg courts of Vienna, Innsbruck and Prague and the … Continue reading Instagram Stories: Collection Series with Adriana Concin
5 Sessions at CAA (Chicago, 12-15 Feb 20)
Date: Jul 8, 2019 Subject: CFP: 5 Sessions at CAA (Chicago, 12-15 Feb 20) College Art Association CAA2020 annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, February 12 - 15, 2020 [1] Selling and buying anonymity [2] What Can Art Say About Extinction? [3] The Collector and Cultural Narratives [4] The Image of the Female Artist [5] Kitsch and Craft … Continue reading 5 Sessions at CAA (Chicago, 12-15 Feb 20)
CAA 2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: The Collector and Cultural Narratives
Subject: CAA 2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: The Collector and Cultural Narratives https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session5188.html The Collector and Cultural Narratives Julie Codell, Arizona State University From the mid-19th century, a new kind of narrative about private collectors appeared in Europe and the US, e.g., Jameson's Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries (1844), Waagen's Kunstwerke und Künstler (Berlin, 1837-1839), trans. Elizabeth Eastlake as The Treasures … Continue reading CAA 2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: The Collector and Cultural Narratives