CFP: After Canova. Sculpture made in Rome from 1822 to 1870 (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 27–28 Oct 2022)
What happens to Rome – the unrivalled European center of neo-classical sculpture – after Canova’s death in 1822? The workshops of Bertel Thorvaldsen, Adamo Tadolini and John Gibson continue to produce works for…
ANN: Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 – Lecture by Charlotte Vignon (Getty Center / online, 5 May 2022, 12-1pm PST)
Drawing from her publication, Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 (2019), curator and professor Charlotte Vignon discusses the commercial strategies and the relationships with preeminent collectors, including J. P. Morgan, that led this…
CONF: Marchands d’antiques à Paris au XIXe siècle – Journée d’études (INHA, Paris, 20 April 2022)
Au sein du marché des antiquités qui s’organise au XIXe siècle en Europe, les marchands ont joué un rôle central dans la circulation des œuvres comme dans la constitution des collections privées et…
ANN: Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century America (Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 21 Feb, 2022, 5.30pm GMT)
The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture, organised by the Italian Chapter Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century AmericaMichele Amedei, Università di Firenze Monday,…
ANN: New archival collections available online at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute (wpi.art)
The WPI is pleased to announce the release of two important archival collections documenting the history of art dealing and collecting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries France. Galerie Félix Gérard…
ANN: Collecting Antiquities in France in the 19th Century – Lecture by Cécile Colonna (Soc. for the History of Collecting / online, 14 Dec 2021, 19:30 CET)
The collector of works of art, original in his path, peculiar in his tastes, unique for his collection, is most often studied as a singular individual through a biography, precisely retraced. The act of collecting is nevertheless a social…
CONF: Bertel Thorvaldsen: Friendship and Social Networks in Europe around 1800 (Munich, ZIKG / online, 12 Nov 2021)
International conference at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, in cooperation with Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen / Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen / Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin. 12 Nov 2021, 10:00 – 15:00 CET Please register via…
ANN: Renoir & Durand-Ruel Oral History (Wildenstein Plattner Institute)
As part of its Oral History Program, the WPI has released two new Oral Histories that explore Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s historical and artistic legacy. Oral histories with Sophie Renoir and Paul Louis Durand-Ruel, respectively the great-granddaughter of Renoir…
CFP: Marchands d’antiques a Paris au XIXe siecle (Paris, INHA, 20 Apr 2022)
Au sein du marché des antiquités qui s’organise au XIXe siècle en Europe, les marchands ont joué un rôle central dans la circulation des œuvres comme dans la constitution des collections privées et…