CFP – Digging up the Past: Exporting Antiquities in the Ottoman Empire from the Late 19th to the Early 20th Century ( 6-7 June 2024)
Until the de facto dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the balance of power in the variousprovinces was asymmetrical. A large part of the empire was under Ottoman rule, which wasperceived in…
ANN: RIHA Journal special issue 2023: The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era
This publication was inspired by the 2017–2019 German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP). We hope that it will augment our understanding of the role of antiquities in the art world in the Nazi…
CONF: Researching antiquities collections through auction catalogues: potential and pitfalls (London, Institute of Classical Studies – online, 22 Sep 2023)
Event dates: 22 September 2023, 10:00AM – 4:00PM For more information: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/researching-antiquities-collections-through-auction-catalogues-potential-and-pitfalls. For the Call for Papers: ics.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/institute_classical_studies/Auction%20catalogues%20cfp%20%281%29.docx.
CONF: Journée d’études – Provenances archéologiques et marché des antiques à Paris au XIXe siècle (INHA Paris, 17 Apr 2023)
Au sein du marché des antiquités qui s’organise au XIXe siècle en Europe, les objets qui s’échangent sont pour une bonne part issus de fouilles archéologiques, plus ou moins licites, organisées dans des…
POSTPONED (new date to be announced) – TIAMSA Live Book Discussion No. 6 – Barbara Furlotti “Antiques in Motion – From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections “
TIAMSA is pleased to announce its sixth book discussion – Antiques in Motion. From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections. Author Barbara Furlotti will discuss her book, followed by a conversation with Adriano Aymonino (University of Buckingham)…
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…
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…
CFP: 2 Sessions at RSA Dublin: Globalizing Early Modern Eastern European Art / Revisiting Collecting Antiquities (30 Mar – 2 Apr 2022)
Globalizing Early Modern Eastern European ArtDeadline: 1 August 2021 In recent years, global approaches to the study of art and material culture have gained momentum, particularly in Anglo-American academia. An increasing number of…
ANN: Merle de Massoneau and the Formation of his Collection of Antiquities, Lecture by Sujatha Chandrasekaran (IHR Collecting & Display / online; 5 Jul 2021, 6pm BST)
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, collectors of ancient art look towards Imperial Russia and its Black Sea littoral as a place of rich and beautiful finds of all periods and styles, ranging from…