2010
December
Benedicte Descours
Comtesse de Biron
Monday, 11th October
Philippa Joseph
Travel, Acquisition, Display: Don Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera and the Casa de Pilatos, Seville, c.1518-1540
Monday, 7th June
Antonio Denunzio (Bank of San Paolo, Naples)
Odoardo Farnese’s Collection of Exotica, Curiosities, ‘mirabilia’ and ‘naturalia’
Monday, 17th May
Bet McLeod (Independent Scholar)
Horace Walpole and the Collections at Strawberry Hill
Friday, 16th April
Anna Maria Poma Swank
tbc
Please note that this session will take place in Florence in collaboration with FUA.
Monday, 1st March
John Hoenig (Independent Scholar)
The collection of Laszlo Hoenig (1905-1971) – a classic designer in a modern world
Monday, 8th February
Guest speaker: Christopher Rowell, National Trust
Book Launch: Collecting & Dynastic Ambition (CSP: Newcastle 2009), edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea Galdy and Adriana Turpin
Thursday, 4th February
Book Launch: Collecting & Dynastic Ambition (CSP: Newcastle 2009), edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea Galdy and Adriana Turpin
Guest speaker: Susan Madocks Lister
Please note that this session will take place in Florence, at The British Institute of Florence, Lungarno Guicciardini 9.
2009
Tuesday, 30th November
Bénédicte Miyamoto Pavot, Research and Teaching Assistant at Université Paris Diderot
Bringing Pictures to the Hammer is literally knocking down and depressing the Fine Arts!” – the rivalry between commercial valuation and artistic expertise in Georgian London
A study of the eighteenth-century London West End map will pinpoint the various venues that sold and showed pictures or prints between 1768 and 1805, and will nuance the art historians’ privileging of the Royal Academy as the only significant artistic mouthpiece. Pictures in Britain were relative novelties in the first half of the century. They burst on the scene of an already very developed market culture where auctions had been prevalent. The rapid assimilation of picture sales by commerce provoked tensions as well as unprecedented opportunities for a larger public. Nowhere else were paintings subjected to such an escalation of prices, creating a properly speculative fascination, as well as spawning original entrepreneurial initiatives that shaped our modern relationship to art.
Friday, 5th November
Robert G. la France (curator of pre-modern art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Hanna Kiel Fellow, Villa I Tatti)
Collecting Bachiacca’s Creations at the Court of Cosimo de’ Medici and Eleonora di Toledo
Please note that this session will take place in Florence in collaboration with Florence University of the Arts.
Tuesday, 12th October
David Taylor (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
An early Scottish portrait collection: The Duke of Rothes’ picture gallery at Leslie House
Rothes (c.1630-81) collected the largest and most important group of portraits in later 17th-century Scotland, likely influenced by his familiarity with the Duchess of Lauderdale’s gallery at Ham and the Arlington’s gallery at Euston. He bought and commissioned autograph portraits and studio copies from several leading London-based artists, as well as aligning himself with one particular artist, the German painter L. Schuneman.
Tuesday, 9th June
Maarten Delbeke (Ghent)
The collection of Francesco Gualdi and its position within the cultural-political milieu of early Seicento Rome
Tuesday, 19th May
Dries Lyna (University of Antwerp)
Rubens on the run? Auctioning art in 18th-century Antwerp and Brussels.
Thursday, 18th May
Alice Sanger (UCL)
An Affection for Sacred Things: Women as Relic Collectors in Baroque Italy
Thursday, 16th April
James Bradburne (Direttore Generale of the Fondazione Strozzi, Florence)
Collecting Ourselves: the Challenges of Collecting the Ephemeral
Please note that this session will take place in Florence in collaboration with FUA.
Florence University of the Arts, Via Magliabechi 1, 50122 Florence.
Tuesday, 10th March
Hadrien Rambach (Independent)
Collectors at auction, auctions for collectors
Monday, 2nd March
Isabelle Decobecq (University of Lille)
“De Gustibus Est Disputandum ? Accounting for preferences for painting in 18th century Paris: Pierre Louis Paul Randon de Boisset, a case study”
Wednesday, 11th February
Michael Bury (Edinburgh)
Controlling the viewing of private collections in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Rome
Monday, 9th February
Pablo Vázquez-Gestal
From Court Culture to State Rhetoric. Antiquities, Museums and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Naples (1734-1746)
Wednesday, 14th January
Stephane Castelluccio (Centre de recherche en histoire de l’art, Paris)
The Cabinet of paintings of the Surintendance des Bâtiments du roi at Versailles
2008
Monday, 8th December
François Marandet,the Duke of Orleans, Pierre Crozat and their paintings acquisitions: some rediscovered transactions on the Parisian market
Monday, 10th November
Valentina Zucchi
The sala delle carte geografiche and the ducal guardaroba in the florentine ducal palace (Palazzo Vecchio)
Monday, 13th October
Ann Eatwell
Lady Charlotte Schreiber: The doyenne of ceramic collectors (1860s-80s)
Monday, 9th June
Maarten Delbeke (University of Ghent)
The collection of Francesco Gualdi and its position within the cultural-political milieu of early seicento Rome
Monday, 19th May
Dries Lyna (University of Antwerp)
Rubens on the run? Auctioning art in 18th-century Antwerp and Brussels.
Monday, 10th March
Hadrien Rambach (Independent)
Collectors at auction, auctions for collectors
Monday, 11th February
Michael Bury (Edinburgh)
Controlling the viewing of private collections in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Rome
Monday, 14th January
Stephane Castelluccio (Centre de Recherche en Histoire de l’Art, Paris)
The cabinet of paintings of the surintendance des bâtiments du roi at Versailles
2007
Monday, 10th December
Susan Haskins
Mary Magdalen and Sixteenth Century Hapsburg Politics
Monday, 12th November
Catherine Eagleton (British Museum)
How to collect coins in late 18th-century London: from HRH Princess Elizabeth to Mr Thompson (waiter at the white hart inn, Lincoln), via Sarah Sophia Banks
Monday, 1st October
Helen Jacobsen
Ambassadorial plate and the collection of the Earl of Strafford 1700-1715
Susan Haskins
Mary Magdalen and sixteenth century Hapsburg politics
Monday, 11th June
Christopher Poke (Independent)
A collection of (mainly 17th-century) engraved ornament prêt à porter? Collectors and publishers in early 18th-century France
Monday, 14th May
Vicky Avery (University of Warwick)
Renaissance sculptors as collectors
Monday, 12th March
David Marsh (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Flora’s cabinet: the collection and display of plants in seventeenth century England
Thursday, 8th February
Derek Keene (Ihr)
Antiquities and apothocaries in early modern London
Monday, 8th January
Adriana Turpin (IESA)
The Medici collections of new world objects
2006
Monday, 11th December
Robert Tittler (Concordia, Canada)
Faces and spaces in early modern England: the place for civic portraiture, c1560-1640
Monday, 13th November
Richard Williams (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Collections as and expression of religious belief in reformation England
October
The Lila Wallace lecture
Andrea Gáldy
Florence as a sixteenth-century centre of antiquarian studies
Monday, 12th June
Alexander Marr (St. Andrew’s)
Monday, 8th May
Susan Bracken (University of Sussex)
Collecting chyna in Jacobean London
Monday, 13th March
Helen Rees Leahy (University of Manchester)
Desiring Holbein: absence and presence in the National Gallery, London
Monday, 13th February
Marika Leino (Henry Moore Foundation fellow, Oxford University)
Giacomo Francesco Arpino (1607-1684) and his ‘gabinetto’
Monday, 9th January
Karen Hearn (Tate Britain)
‘Sir Nathaniell Bacon’s … And all other my pictures at Culford …’: Lady Jane Bacon’s inventory of 1659
2005
Monday, 12th December
Tracey Avery (University of Melbourne/Paul Mellon Centre)
The genteel and the curious: world views on display in colonial homes in Brisbane, Australia in the late nineteenth century
Monday, 14th November
Virginie Spenlé (Tu Dresden)
Painting collections in German residences in the eighteenth century: princely representation and art display
Monday, 10th October
Giorgia Mancini (National Gallery, London)
Collecting and display in sixteenth-century rome: the case of cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
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