CONF: The Commerce and Circulation of the Decorative Arts – The role played by auctions, dealers, collectors, and museums, 1792-1914 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon – 25-27 Sept 2024)
This international three-day colloquium investigates the role played by auctions, dealers, collectors, and museums in the circulation of the decorative arts from 1792 until 1914. Beginning with the ‘ventes des biens des émigrés’…
CFP: The Commerce & Circulation of Decorative Arts 1792-1914: Auctions, Dealers, Collectors and Museums (Lyon, LARHRA – 25-27 Sep 2024)
This international three-day colloquium, to be held in Lyon, France, from 25 to 27 September 2024, will investigate the role played by auctions, dealers, collectors, and museums in the circulation of the decorative…
ANN: Collecting Spanish Decorative Arts in Britain and Spain, online seminar (Collecting and Display, 20 Mar 2023; 8pm London GMT)
Coleccionismo de artes decorativas españolas en Gran Bretaña y España / Collecting Spanish Decorative Arts in Britain and Spain (Madrid: Polifemo, 2022) examines the collecting of Spanish decorative arts between about 1850 and…
CFP: Promoting the Made in Italy Brand: 1948-1960. Histories of Italian craft and design for the 21st century (Politecnico di Milano, 16-18 May 2023)
This 3-day international conference is organized as part of the VO Project – Voices of Objects. Italian Design from Museum to Home, a FARB 2021 project funded by the Department of Design at…
ANN: The Hali Colloquium in Italy: Kerman Carpets of the Safavid Period (1501-1736); (Genoa, 10-11 Feb 2023)
This two-day colloquium In memory of Dr Alessandro Bruschettini, 1939-2021 in English language only will bring together experts in historical carpets, historians of art, and specialists from other disciplines to catalyze new research…
STIP: Burlington Magazine scholarship for French 18th Century art
The Burlington Magazine scholarship for the study of French 18th Century fine and decorative art (2021)Application deadline: 22 Mar 2021 The scholarship has been created to provide funding over a 12-month period to…
PUBL: Two new articles in ‚Oud Holland‘ (2020, no. 2): Angela Jager – Selling paintings to Sweden / Carrie Anderson – Between optic and haptic: Tactility and trade in the Dutch West India Company’s gold box (1749)
Angela Jager – Selling paintings to Sweden: Toussaint Gelton’s correspondence with Pontus Fredrik de la Gardie – pp. 108-126 SummaryThis article discusses the contents of four unpublished letters by the painter Toussaint Gelton…
ANN: Lecture – Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 (Los Angeles, 15 Apr 2020)
Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 7:00 p.m. Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center, Los Angeles
CFP: Revivals in the Decorative Arts (Lisbon, 14-16 Oct 2020)
National Palace of Ajuda, Lisbon Portugal, October 14 – 16, 2020Deadline: Apr 15, 2020 The 2020 Annual Conference and General Assembly of ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and…