ANN: Research Group “L’età delle Dispersioni. Collezionismo tra Italia ed Europa nell’età moderna”
Launch of the international research group’s platform “L’età delle Dispersioni. Collezionismo tra Italia ed Europa nell’età moderna”, where the results of the studies carried out and new initiatives are published. The focus of…
ANN: Early Modern Collecting and the Shifting Cabinet of Curiosities – Lecture by Patricia Rocco (Collecting and Display, 15 May 2023 18:00 BST, zoom only)
Ulysses Aldrovandi had established one of the largest naturalist collections of his day in 16th century Bologna, including all manner of exotic flora and fauna. His collection was meant to be categorized, catalogued,…
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: The Medici Beyond Florence. Art and Politics (Florence/online, 16-17 Mar 2022)
The conference investigates the history and culture of the Medici family through art collecting and patronage practices, from the beginning of the ducal era (1530) to the end of the Thirty Year’s War (1648)….
CFP: Close Encounters – Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Britain 1500-1800 (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, Sep 22, 2022)
The risks and challenges of migration are of compelling interest today. Over the last thirty years, research on early modern artists’ migration and on cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Britain has…
PUBL: Eric Jan Sluijter, Jan van Goyen: Virtuoso, Innovator, and Market Leader (Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 13.2, 2021)
This augmented translation of an influential essay from the catalogue for the 1996 exhibition Jan van Goyen, now translated by Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert, examines the strategies and innovations – in style, subject matter, technique, and price level – that…
CONF: Arthub Antwerp – Networking, Collaboration and Co-Production in Netherlandish Art from the 15th Century onwards (online, 7-8 Oct 2021)
Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte e. V. (ANKK)International Conference in collaboration with the Rubenianum, Antwerp Register by 1 Oct 2021 Antwerp is more than Rubens. It is often forgotten that the Netherlandish metropolis…
CFP: Printmaking as Passe-Partout: Leveraging Skill and Knowledge in Artists’ Migration, 15th-18th Centuries (APS-sponsored RSA Panel, Dublin 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2022)
The RSA invites proposals for this panel at our 68th Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday, 30 March through Saturday, 2 April. Submission deadline: 26 July 2021
CONF: Collections of Drawings in Vienna and Central Europe (online / Albertina & Universität Wien Vienna Center for the History of Collecting, 10-11 June 2021)
This conference – Zeichnungssammlungen in Wien und Mitteleuropa: Akteure, Praktiken, Rahmendiskurse – hosted by the Albertina and the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting (Vienna University), will consider the collecting of drawings from 1500 onwards. Conference…