CFP: Social Agency of Secular Goldsmiths’ Work in the Late MA (Leeds, 3-6 Jul 2023)
Wrought for a vast range of mundane practices and contexts, in an abundance of forms, styles, and techniques, European late medieval secular goldsmiths’ work remains an elusive category of artistic production. Perhaps deterred…
CFP: Belvedere Research Journal, First Issue
We are inviting the first round of submissions to the newly founded Belvedere Research Journal (BRJ), a peer-reviewed, open access e-journal. We seek articles that shed new light on the visual culture of…
CONF: Collecting Central Europe – Kunstkammer Workshop (online, 24 May 2022, 7pm CEST)
Kunstkammer Workshop with Mark A. Meadow, Renate Leggatt-Hofer and Eliška Zlatohlávková24.Mai.2022 07:00 PM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien Kunstkammer Workshop:Four short presentations followed by live discussion and Q&A.
CFP: The Material Culture of Magnificence in Early Modern Cities. Session at RSA (San Juan, 9-11 Mar 2023)
This session proposes to study the material culture of magnificence in early modern cities as a specific topic. Magnificentia, by its definition as a virtue, is very much concerned with the individual. By making…
CONF: Hansards in the World: Continuity and Discontinuity on the Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic Frontiers of the Early Modern Hanse (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 12-13 May 2022)
Hansards in the World gathers and promotes new histories of the Hanse -an organization of merchants and towns- and how the merchants interacted with the wider world in the early modern period. Contributors explore novel perspectives…
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…
CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paris, 9-10 Jun 2022)
In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon…
CFP: Thinking About the Archive & Provenance Research (DCNtR Blog)
In the debate about the colonial past of ethnological museums in Western Europe, provenance research has emerged in recent years as the main method for researching colonial legacies and addressing museums’ need for decolonisation….
CFP: Art Exhibitions as intersections in Post War Europe (Stockholm, 11-12 May 2022)
Scholars of art history and exhibition studies are increasingly investigating the role of art institutions in the circulation of art, in post war Europe. The movement of art between East and West Europe,…