COLLECTING AND DISPLAY AT THE CONFERENCE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS ON 5th JULY, 2012 AT THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

COLLECTORS OF ANTIQUITIES AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PAST

Chair:  Adriana Turpin (IESA/Warwick)

Leon Lock (Louvain):  Sculptors' Collections in the late 17th Century:  Flemish sculptors and Rome

Adriano Aymonino (Buckingham):  Aristocratic Splendour:  Hugh Smithson Percy (1712-1786) and Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716-1776), 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland.  A case study in patronage, collecting and society in eighteenth-century Britain

Chiara Teolato (Roma Tre):  Souvenirs of the Antique:  collecting and displaying Zoffoli's small bronzes in England (1760-1800)

Silvia Davoli (Wallace Collection):  Dr. Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840-1899) - the dispersed collection of Gandhara sculptures:  Lahore, London, Florence and Berlin.

Workshop on Approaches to the Study of Collecting

Friday 6 July, 2012 at the Institute of Historical Research

In partnership with the Wallace Collection

Based on the success of the 2011 workshop on methodologies of collecting, the Collecting and Display Group and the Wallace Collection are jointly organising a second workshop for the summer of 2012. Our proposal is to consider new approaches to different fields of collecting such as: paintings and the Grand Tour, sculpture, decorative arts, exotica or scientific instruments. We would like contributors to present a specific approach they have used in researching their topic, for example how value or status can be determined, the influence of collectors’ networks, the role of gifts; a further area of discussion might be the use of sources.  

The study day will take place on Friday 6 July at the Institute of Historical Research 9.30-5.30

Further details of the programme and booking form will be available by the end of April. In the meantime, please address any enquiries to a.turpin@iesa.edu or schbracken@btopenworld.com