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: Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century America (Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 21 Feb, 2022, 5.30pm GMT)
The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture, organised by the Italian Chapter Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century AmericaMichele Amedei, Università di Firenze Monday,…
ANN: Collecting Antiquities in France in the 19th Century – Lecture by Cécile Colonna (Soc. for the History of Collecting / online, 14 Dec 2021, 19:30 CET)
The collector of works of art, original in his path, peculiar in his tastes, unique for his collection, is most often studied as a singular individual through a biography, precisely retraced. The act of collecting is nevertheless a social…
ANN: The London Gallery, 1938-1950: Collecting and Patronage of Surrealist Art in Britain; Lecture by Caterina Caputo (online / The Society for the History of Collecting; 8 Oct 2021, 6:30 BST)
The aim of this talk is to provide an analytical overview of collecting practices and patronage of Surrealist art in Britain from 1938 to 1950, within the context of Surrealists’ strategies and methodologies for disseminating…
CONF: Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now (online Symposium, 18-19 June)
“The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now” will take place online on Friday-Saturday, June 18-19, starting at 11 a.m. (New York) / 5 p.m. (London). It is part…
CFP: Seminars in the History of Collecting 2019
Call for Papers The seminar series was established as part of the Wallace Collection’s commitment to the research and study of the history of collections and collecting, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth…
CFP: Seminars on Collecting and Display, Oct 2017 – June 2018
Call for Papers Seminars on Collecting and Display Institute of Historical Research Senate House London WC1E 7HU 15.10.2017 – 17.06.2018 Deadline: Sep 8, 2017 The conveners of the Seminar for Collecting and Display, London, invite…
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