CONF: Artists’ Collections. Objects, Frameworks, Ideas (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität/ZIKG, Munich / online, 12-13 Nov 2021)
Artists have always assembled a variety of things, whether beautiful, rare or “exotic” artifacts and naturalia, works by other artists, memorabilia, studio materials and models, found objects or knick-knacks. Like other collections, those of artists often…
CFP: Artists and their Collections, 1300-1700 – Session at RSA (Philadelphia, 2-4 Apr 20)
Recent publications and exhibitions [Painters’ Paintings, The National Gallery, London; Magnificent Obsessions, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich / The Barbican Centre, London] have explored artists’ motivations for forming collections, demonstrating that…
Conf: Le collezioni degli artisti in Italia (Rome, 22 Jun 17)
Le collezioni degli artisti in Italia: trasformazioni e continuità di un fenomeno sociale tra Cinquecento e Settecento The collections of artists in Italy: transformations and continuity of a social phenomenon between the sixteenth…