Colloque international : « Academy, Market, Industry: Sculptural Models, Themes and Genres between Britain and Italy, c. 1728-1854 » (Londres, 16-17 mai 2025)

Colloque international : « Academy, Market, Industry: Sculptural Models, Themes and Genres between Britain and Italy, c. 1728-1854 » (Londres, 16-17 mai 2025)

Date et lieu: 16 et 17 mai 2025, Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres (en hybride)

Ce colloque international de deux jours explorera l’influence des échanges entre la Grande-Bretagne et l’Italie sur la sculpture aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Les communications aborderont l’évolution des genres établis tels que les bustes, les sculptures idéales, les monuments funéraires et publics, ainsi que les copies et les adaptations d’œuvres antiques. Elles examineront la manière dont ces modèles ont été adaptés dans la sculpture décorative, y compris les reliefs, les décors de cheminées, ainsi que dans les œuvres d’art plus petites telles que les gemmes, les camées, les ivoires et les œuvres en porcelaine, en faïence et dans de nouvelles « pierres » artificielles.

La conférence est organisée par Kira d’Alburquerque (Victoria and Albert Museum), Adriano Aymonino (University of Buckingham), Albertina Ciani Sciolla (University of Buckingham) et Andrea Bacchi (Fondazione Federico Zeri – Università di Bologna), et soutenue par la Henry Moore Foundation, Stuart Lochhead Sculpture et l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra.

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PROGRAMME

DAY ONE – FRIDAY 16 MAY 2025

MORNING

10.00: Registration

10.30: Welcome and Introduction: Adriano Aymonino – Albertina Ciani Sciolla – Kira d’Alburquerque

 

Session One: New Approaches to Old Genres and Themes

Moderator: Andrea Bacchi (Università degli Studi di Bologna / Fondazione Federico Zeri)

10:45: Emily Hirsch (Brown University): Italy, By Way of Flanders: John Michael Rysbrack and Peter Scheemakers the Younger in England, c. 1720-1750

11:05: Camilla Parisi (Università Roma Tre): The Impact of British Collecting on Italian Artistic Trends: The Case of Filippo della Valle (1698-1768)

11:25: Discussion

11:35: Tea/Coffee Break

12:05: Mattia Ciani (Università degli Studi di Siena): Antonio Cocchi and Joseph Wilton. The Charm of Antiquity and the ‘True Catholic Air’

12:25: Susan Jenkins (Westminster Abbey): “The insolence of this puppy!”: Evidence for the Complexities of Commissioning Models between England and Rome in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.

12:45: Matteo Maggiolo (Independent Scholar): Christopher Hewetson and the Evolution of the Portrait Bust in Late Eighteenth-Century Rome

13:05: Discussion

13:15: Lunch

 

AFTERNOON

Session Two: Models, Themes, Genres and Media Transfer

Moderator: Malcolm Baker (University of California, Riverside)

14:45: Karl Brose (University of Virginia): Media Transfers and Transnational Exchange in Edme Bouchardon’s Roman Portraits, 1727-1732

15:05: Dominic Bate (Brown University): Giles Hussey and the Revival of Gem Engraving in Georgian Britain

15:25: Discussion

15:35: Tea/Coffee Break

16:05: Miriam Al Jamil (Independent Scholar): Antiquity in dialogue: Eleanor Coade’s Artificial Stone and Global Exchanges

16:25: Catrin Jones (V&A Wedgwood Collection): Flaxman Models and Wedgwood Process

16:45: Discussion

 

Session Three: Books’ Presentations

16:55: Adriano Aymonino: Introducing the New Edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, “Taste and the Antique” (Brepols/Brepols/Harvey Miller, 3 vols, December 2024).

17:05: Jonathan Marsden: Introducing the “European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty The King” (Modern Art Press and Royal Collection Trust, 4 vols, Autumn 2025)

17:15: Closing Remarks

17:45: End of Day One

 

DAY TWO: SATURDAY 17 MAY 2025

 

MORNING

10.00: Registration

10.30: Welcome and Introduction: Adriano Aymonino – Albertina Ciani Sciolla – Kira d’Alburquerque

 

Session Four: New Genres, New Subjects

Moderator: Anne-Lise Desmas (The J. Paul Getty Museum)

10:45: Max Bryant (Minneapolis Institute of Art): Cockerell’s ‘Progetto’ and the Transformation of the Sculpted Pediment

11:05: Tiziano Casola (Independent Scholar): Outside Mythology: Religious and Historical Themes in Anglo-Roman Sculpture (Late 18th to Early 19th Century)

11:25: Discussion

11:35: Tea/Coffee Break

12:05: Anna Frasca-Rath (Universität Wien): The Wounded Ideal. New Iconographies in Roman Sculpture around 1848

12:25: Albertina Ciani Sciolla (University of Buckingham): Between Art and Industry: Raffaele Monti’s “Veiled Women”

12:45: Discussion

13:00: Lunch

 

AFTERNOON

Session Five: Patronage, Industry and the Dissemination of Renaissance and Modern Models

Moderator: Alison Yarrington (University of Loughborough)

14:30: Alessio Costarelli (Università degli Studi di Messina): The British Glory of Thorvaldsen and His School

14:50: Giuseppe Rizzo (Gallerie degli Uffizi): The Sutherlands’ Patronage and Copies of ‘Renaissance’ Statues in Britain: from Florence to Trentham Hall and Sydenham

15:10: Discussion

15:30: Francesco Zagnoni (Università degli Studi di Bologna): Exhibiting Italian Neo-Renaissance Sculpture in Great Britain: The Commissions of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry to Lorenzo Bartolini

15:50: Matteo Salomone (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata): Genoese Casts from ‘Professor Varny’: Sculptural Exchanges between Genoa and England through the Work of Santo Varni

16:10: Discussion

16:30: Closing Remarks: Nicholas Penny (former Director, National Gallery, London)

16:45: End of Day Two

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