Program conference – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – 13-15 June 2019
The Artistic Taste of Nations: Contesting Geographies of European Art 1550-1815
Thursday June 13
12.00 – 12.30 Registration
12.30 – 13.00 Welcome
Gert-Jan Burgers (director research institute CLUE+)
Ingrid Vermeulen (Vrije Universiteit)
Session 1 – Academies of art and artistic nations
Moderator: Arno Witte (KNIR Rome/ Universiteit van Amsterdam)
13.00 – 13.35 Notions of Nationhood and Artistic Identity in 17th Century Rome, Susanne Kubersky-Piredda (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte Rome)
13.35 – 14.10 Spanish artists and the Academies: places of belonging in the second half of XVII Century in Rome, Maria Onori (Sapienza Università di Roma)
14.10 – 14.45 Shaping architecture. The case of the Regia Accademia di Pittura, Scultura e Architettura in Mantua, Ludovica Cappelletti (Politecnico di Milano)
14.45 – 15.15 Break
Session 2 – Drawings, connoisseurship and geography
Moderator: Klazina Botke (Vrije Universiteit)
15.15 – 15.50 Father Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714) and the Italian schools of design, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò (Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’)
15.50 – 16.25 Connoisseurship beyond geography: some puzzling drawings from Filippo Baldinucci’s personal collection, Federica Mancini (Musée du Louvre Paris)
16.25 – 17.00 Arthur Pond’s Prints in Imitations of Drawings: Connoisseurship and the National School in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain, Sarah W. Mallory (Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts)
17.00 – 18.00 Drinks, Vrije Universiteit
18.30 – 21.30 Dinner with speakers and moderators (at one’s own expense)
Friday June 14
09.00 – 09.30 Registration
Session 1 – The taste and genius of nations
Moderator: Marije Osnabrugge (Université de Genève)
9.30 – 10.05 The ‘taste of nations’. Roger de Piles’s diplomatic views on European art, Ingrid Vermeulen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
10.05 – 10.40 How do great geniuses appear in a nation? A historiographical problem for the Enlightenment period, Pascal Griener (Université de Neuchâtel)
10.40 – 11.10 Break
Session 2 – Print collecting and school formation
Moderator: Huigen Leeflang (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
11.10 – 11.45 Between theory and practice: Dezallier d’Argenville’s idea on print collections, Gaëtane Maës (Université de Lille)
11.45 – 12.20 Des Notices générales au Manuel du Curieux : Michael Huber et l’Ecole française de gravure. (From Notices Générales to Manuel du Curieux: Michael Huber and the French school of printmaking), Véronique Meyer (Université de Poitiers)
12.20 – 12.55 Chronology and School – Questioning two competing criteria for the classification of graphic collections around 1800, Stephan Brakensiek (Universität Trier)
12.55 – 14.00 Lunch break (speakers and moderators only)
Session 3 – Transnational identities
Moderator: t.b.a.
14.00 – 14.35 Towards the construction of an Italian school. The transformative Power of Place in Bellori’s Lives, Elisabeth Oy-Marra (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
14.35 – 15.10 Claimed by all or too elusive to include: the place of mobile artists in artist biographies and the local canon, Marije Osnabrugge (Université de Genève)
15.10 – 15.45 The Galeriewerk and the Self-Fashioning of Artists at the Dresden Court, Ewa Manikowska (Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw)
15.45 – 16.15 Break
Session 4 – Practices of classification
Moderator: Ingrid Vermeulen (Vrije Universiteit)
16.15-16.50 The Dutch and Flemish Schools of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Art Literature, Auction Catalogues and Collections: Together or Apart?, Everhard Korthals Altes (Technische Universiteit Delft)
16.50-17.25 Pieter Cornelis van Leyden´s collections of prints and paintings: content, organization and schools, Huigen Leeflang (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
17.25-18.00 «In the school of the Netherlands I joined two schools, Flemish and Holandaise, I even added some German painters»: The problem of European artistic schools in the context of the Russian Enlightenment, Irina Emelianova (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (Ch))
18.30 – 21.30 Conference dinner with speakers and moderators at the Botanical Gardens, Vrije Universiteit
Saturday June 15
09.00 – 09.30 Registration
Session 1 – Schools going public: the picture gallery
Moderator: Everhard Korthals Altes (Technische Universiteit Delft)
9.30 – 10.05 In search of a higher order: the organisation of the Munich Hofgartengalerie at the end of the eighteenth century, Cécilia Hurley (École du Louvre/ Université de Neuchâtel)
10.05 – 10.40 An organisation by schools considered too commercial for the newly founded Louvre Museum, Christine Godfroy-Gallardo (HICSA Université Paris I – Sorbonne)
10.40 – 11.15 The “Louvre effect”. The new arrangement of the Vatican Pinacoteca and Guattani’s catalogue I più celebri quadri delle diverse scuole italiane (1820), Pier Paolo Racioppi (Fondazione IES Abroad Italy Rome)
11.15 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.15 Panel discussion and closing remarks
13.30 – 15.00 Visit Rijksmuseum print room (speakers and moderators only)
End of conference
