
THE MUTABILITY OF COLLECTIONS: TRANSFORMATION, CONTEXTUALISATION AND RE-INTERPRETATION
LONDON 7th JULY, 2023
Room MAL G14, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX
09.00 – Introduction to the day
9.15 -9.45 – Laura Moretti: Object history and museum display. The adventurous life of the Berlin Adorante
9.50-10.20 – Vincent Pham: Vernacular Veneration – Lord Chesterfield’s library portraits and their afterlives
10.25-11.05 – Lara Pitteloud: From a Private to an Imperial Cabinet: the various re-interpretations of the Comte de Baudoin’s collection
Coffee
11.35-12.05 – Emily Monty: Prints and Books in the Dutch Fagel Collection: Continuity and Disjuncture in the London Market around 1800
12.10-12.40 – Ludovica Scalzo Collections on display in the Braccio Nuovo: a new Interpretation
lunch break 12.45-13.30
13.30 introduction to the afternoon session
13.35-14.05 – Hannah McIsaac: Dutch Botanical Gardens: Visual Representation and the Impermanence of Collections
14.20-14.40 – Michal Mencfel: The Pulawian Relics of Unhappy Lovers, or the Poetics of Framing
14.45-15.15 – Solmaz Kive: Framing the Other: Decorative Art at the South Kensington Museum
Break
15.45-16.15 – Maria Silina: Re-making Soviet Collections: Knowledge Production and Border Divisions [via Zoom link]
16.20-16.40 – Renata Komiƈ Marn: “Sammlung Attems”: the identity of the collection in its Changing Contexts [via Zoom link]
16.40 – 17.00 closing discussion
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