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…
CFP: Imperial Material – Napoleon’s legacy in culture, art and heritage 1821-2021 (online, 3 Aug 2021)
We invite researchers of all disciplines, and museum and heritage professionals, to reflect on the enduring material and visual legacy of Napoleon, what our interpretation and use of it means for the future…
ANN: Lecture ‘Collecting practices in the Gulf’ by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya (online / University of Edinburgh Collecting and Art Market Research Cluster, Tues 27 Apr 2021)
Sheikh Saoud bin Mohamed bin Ali Al Thani (1966-2014) was one of the most prominent art collectors of the last decades. He was very influential in the constitution of collections for Qatar Museums…
TIAMSA Member Announcement: CFP: The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era (College Art Association, Annual (virtual) Conference, 10–13 Feb 2021)
Deadline: September 16, 2020 Despite the important role antiquity and archaeology played in the ideology of the Third Reich, until recently there has been little attempt to develop a holistic picture of the…
ANN: Circulating Artefacts (CircArt): a global platform against the looting and trafficking of pharaonic antiquities (British Museum)
The British Museum’s Circulating Artefacts (CircArt) project, launched in 2018, has gone live: https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/egypt-and-sudan/circulating-artefacts