The Centre de recherche du château de Versailles has launched the Visiteurs Database listing the accounts of foreign visitors to the domain, the Palace and the Court of Versailles, between the second half of the 17th century and the end of the 19th century. The database is part of the research programme “Court identities and
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5 March 2015
In offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers, Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism.
Continue reading ...Mapping Titian allows users to visualize one of the most fundamental concerns of the discipline of Art History: the interrelationship between an artwork and its changing historical context. Focusing on the paintings executed by the Venetian Renaissance artist, Titian (ca. 1488-1576), this site offers a searchable provenance index of his attributed pictures and allows users
Continue reading ...Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, Ting Chang explores the politics of mobility and cross-cultural encounter in the nineteenth century.
Continue reading ...The binomial art-money, nowadays even obvious, existed in the past as well, although through partially different forms and mechanisms.
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
12 October 2010-2 January 2011
University of York, UK
8 December 2012