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THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE CONFERENCE John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) 2 September 2009 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Ronald Hutton (History Dept., University of Bristol) Languages of Paganism in Victorian Britain Christina Bradstreet (Birkbeck College) Wicked with Roses: Waterhouse’s Soul of the Rose Simon Goldhill (Dept. of Greek, Kings College Cambridge) Sex in the afternoon: the ancient world and desire in Waterhouse Nancy Marshall (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Nymphs in the City: Waterhouse in the Context of Late Nineteenth-Century London Stefano-Maria Evangelista (Trinity College Oxford) Ladies of Shalott: Waterhouse and Victorian Poetry A roundtable discussion will be led by the co-curators of the exhibition: Elizabeth Prettejohn (Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol), Peter Trippi (independent art historian and Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur), Robert Upstone (Curator of Modern British Art, Tate), Patty Wageman (Deputy Director, Groninger Museum). Evening reception and private view of the exhibition at 7 p.m. in the Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts. Trans-Atlantic Romanticism An International Conference 15–17 October 2009 Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts (Dr. Alison Bracker); the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Dr. Martin Postle); and the Department of History of Art, University College London (Professor Andrew Hemingway). Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art. The object of this conference is to rethink Romanticism in the American visual arts of the period c.1789–1848 within a trans-Atlantic framework. The twelve papers and keynote lecture will address the issues of Romanticism from a number of perspectives. The conference brings together scholars from both sides of the Atlantic working on cognate themes, and will provide the forum for extended discussions rather than simply presentations of research findings. The event will open with a keynote lecture by Professor Alan Wallach (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA) at the Royal Academy on the evening of Thursday 15 October, which will lay out key themes to be taken up in the succeeding days. The conference venue will be the Paul Mellon Centre on Friday 16 October, and University College London (Cruciform Building) on Saturday 17 October. Other speakers include Dr Matthew Beaumont (University College London); Professor Emeritus David Bindman (University College London); Professor Leo Costello (Rice University, Houston); Professor Mark Ford (University College London); Professor Paul Giles (University of Oxford); Professor Andrew Hemingway (University College London); Dr Wendy Ikemoto (Courtauld Institute of Art); Dr Sarah Monks (University of York); Dr Kenneth Myers Benjamin West, Death on a Pale Horse, 1783–1803, Royal Academy of Arts. London (Curator of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts); William Truettner (Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum); Professor Dell Upton (University of California, Los Angeles); Professor Emeritus William Vaughan (Birkbeck College, University of London). Saturday’s event will conclude with a round-table discussion. A small exhibition of relevant works by American artists from the Academy’s collection will be shown concurrently in the Royal Academy Library Print Room. Conference fees are £50.00 and £25.00 to students and concessions. The fee covers a drinks reception at the Royal Academy and tea, coffee and a sandwich lunch on the Friday and Saturday. Inquiries and booking requests should be directed to the Conference Assistant, Dr. Philippa Kaina, at the Department of History of Art, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; or by e-mail to: p.kaina@ucl.ac.uk
Antiquity at Home Study Day at the Paul Mellon Centre, 28–29th January 2010 THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE CONFERENCE AND PUBLICATION Related publication This conference will address the collecting of antiquities in Europe, primarily focussing on England and Italy, in the eighteenth century. The event will coincide with the forthcoming publication by Yale University Press of Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth Century Rome, a book begun by the noted Grand Tour scholar, the late Ilaria Bignamini, and completed by Clare Hornsby. This project explores the involvement of the British in Rome in the enormously active market in marbles and other antiquities in mid- to late-century. The conference has been jointly planned by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum and opens with a keynote lecture in the BP Lecture Theatre at the British Museum at 6.30 pm on Thursday 28th January by Professor David Watkin, and continues on Friday 29th at the Paul Mellon Centre. Speakers, including Tim Knox, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum and Ian Jenkins, Senior Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, at the British Museum, will look in detail at different aspects of Antiquity at Home, concentrating on objects and collections. There will be talks looking closely at specific marbles and house collections and broader examinations of the rôle of collectors such as Charles Townley, Richard Worsley and the Gaetani family in Naples. The Study Day will begin with a tribute to Ilaria Bignamini by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and formerly Director of the British School at Rome. Full conference fee, including admission to Professor Watkin’s lecture on 28 January, coffee, lunch, tea and a wine reception at the Paul Mellon Centre on 29 January, is £40 (Student and Senior Citizen concessions £20). To register for the conference please check availability with Ella Fleming at the Paul Mellon Centre. Tel: 202 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 Email: events@paul-melloncentre.ac.uk then send a cheque made payable to the Paul Mellon Centre to 16 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3JA, including a stamped addressed envelope. Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome by Ilaria Bignamini and Clare Hornsby This important and long-awaited book offers the first overview of all British-led excavation sites in and around Rome in the Golden Age of the Grand Tour. Based on work carried out by the late Ilaria Bignamini, the book traces sculptures and other works of art that are currently in public collections around the world from their original find-sites via the dealers and entrepreneurs to the private collectors in Britain. In the first of two volumes, approximately fifty sites, each located by maps, are analysed in historical and topographical detail, supported by fifty newly written and researched biographies of the major names in the Anglo-Italian world of dealing and collecting. Essays by Bignamini and Hornsby introduce the field of study and elucidate the complex bureaucracy of the relevant departments of the Papal courts. The second volume of the book is a collection of hundreds of letters from the dealers and excavators abroad to collectors in England, offering a rich source of information about all aspects of the art market at the time. Ilaria Bignamini was an historian of art and archaeology. Clare Hornsby is Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. January 270x217 mm. 200 b/w + 50 colour illus. Vol. 1: 288 pp. Vol. 2: 176 pp. Slipcased ISBN 978-0-300-16043-7 £45.00
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