ANN: TIAMSA Live Book Discussion: Frances Fowle and Mary Kate Cleary, The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since Mid-Nineteenth Century (22 May 2025, 18:00 CET)
TIAMSA is pleased to announce its fifteenth book discussion: The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). Authors Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh)…
CFP: Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World – Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts (Edited Volume)
We seek proposals for chapters in a proposed edited volume dedicated to the topic “Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World: Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts,” edited by Tanja L. Jones…
ANN: Masterclass – European Collectors as Patrons (Palazzo Butera, Palermo, 28-30 Jun 2023)
“European Collectors as Patrons” is a three-day masterclass on how patronage supports and defends artistic and cultural activity. Bertrand du Vignaud and Claudio Gulli will outline how over the last three centuries a…
CONF: Artists Agents and Patrons from the Low Countries in the Iberian World (Brussels, 9 Dec 2022)
The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) is organizing a study day to further clarify our understanding of the artistic exchanges and influences that took place between the Low Countries and the Iberian…
CONF: Between Passion and Mission. On the Public Relevance of Privately Funded Exhibition Spaces (Duesseldorf, Sammlung Philara, 20-21 May 2022)
Wie sieht gesellschaftlich relevantes Kunstmäzenatentum im 21. Jahrhundert aus? International wie deutschlandweit ist eine wachsende Anzahl von privat getragenen Ausstellungshäusern und Sammlungen zu verzeichnen. Ausgehend von den vier regionalen Institutionen im Verbund Rhineland…
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)….
TIAMSA Member News: The History of Collecting – Then and Now. Conversation between Sir David Cannadine and TIAMSA Founding Member Inge Reist (online / Frick Center for the History of Collecting, 10 June 12pm EDT)
Join author and historian Sir David Cannadine in conversation with Inge Reist, Director Emerita of the Center for the History of Collecting, in celebration of the publication of “What’s Mine Is Yours”: Private Collectors and…
CFP: Power, Patronage and Production – Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections (Princeton/New York, 13-15 Jan 2022)
Call for papers:Power, Patronage and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American CollectionsPrinceton/New York, 13 – 15 January 2022 Deadline: 01 Feb 2021
CFP: Breaking art rules? New patrons, art commissions and the old “règles de l’art” (Session at the 15th SIEF Congress, online, 21-24 Jun 2021)
Call for papers:Breaking art rules? New patrons, art commissions and the old “règles de l’art” (Session at the 15th SIEF Congress, online, 21-24 June 21) Convenors: Judith Laister, Anne Kersten, Alexander Kochhttps://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2021/panels#9593Deadline: 26…