TIAMSA Member Discount: PUBL: – Italy for Sale. Alternative Objects – Alternative Markets (Brill, Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets Vol. 19)
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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…
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…
ANN: Spoliation and Recovery of Art and Antiquities from Italy (The Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 22 Mar 2022, 3pm GMT)
As Italy’s artistic heritage, both antiquities and fine art, has been hardest hit by the illicit art trade, these papers will focus on the country’s historic spoliation during the Renaissance, Napoleonic and Grand…
ANN: Lynn Catterson – Stefano Bardini and the Manufacture of Authenticity (live online / Forum Kunst & Markt, TU Berlin, 31 Jan 2022, 18:15-19:45 CET; in English)
In November 1888, writing to the German museum official, Wilhelm Bode (1845-1929), the dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) stated that he was certain that “eight marbles and 12 terracottas” in South Kensington (V&A) were fake,…
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…
PUBL: ‘Feeding the Market for Renaissance Bronzetti’ and ‘Renato de Crosa: A Forgotten Art-Agent for Empress Catherine the Great’ (Colnaghi Studies 08, 2021)
In its current issue, a tribute to Charles Avery, Colnaghi Studies features two publications that study aspects of the art market: Peta Motture: ‘Feeding the Market for Renaissance Bronzetti‘ (pp.56-73): “Focusing primarily on…
TIAMSA News: The Hugo Helbing Lecture 2021 to be held by TIAMSA Board Member Lynn Catterson: “Stefano Bardini and Wilhelm von Bode: A Case of Collaborative Contamination of the Canon and the Scholarly Literature?” (online / Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich, 28 Apr 2021, 18:30-20:00)
Operating out of Florence, but active all around Europe and across the Atlantic, Stefano Bardini (1836 – 1922) built a business that could claim nearly a thousand clients and which transacted many thousands of…
ANN: Round Table ‘From Genoa to London: Four Centuries of Collecting Raphael’ (London Art Week Digital / online – 3 Dec 2020, 5pm GMT)
Round Table ‘From Genoa to London: Four Centuries of Collecting Raphael’ London Art Week Digital / online – 3 Dec 2020, 5pm GMT London Art Week inaugurated its first and highly acclaimed Symposium…