ANNE WANNER'S Textiles in History / symposiums |
Early Textiles Study Group -
12th biannual conference Textiles in Art: from the
Bronze Age to the Renaissance Seminar-style papers by
specialist textile historians based on new research and
focusing on the representation of textiles in works of
art. Papers to include: Sophie Desrosiers - "Textiles
represented in the Dame à la Licorne tapestries
and some other late 15th century hangings in the For full programme and booking
form please see home page http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Textilesinart/ Conference fee: £85 for two
days (£50 for a single day) Organisers: Hero
Granger-Taylor, Rosalind Janssen and Lisa Monnas hgt 4/7/08 |
Early
Textiles Study Group - 12th
biannual conference Textiles in Art: from
the Bronze Age to the Renaissance Provisional Programme 5th-
6th December 2008 Please see below for related
events on Thursday 4th and
Sunday 7th December Day 1, Friday 5th
December 2008 For map and venue details, see http://www.britac.ac.uk/contact/index.html 9.15 Registration 11.00 coffee 11.30 Zhao Feng
The Two Systems of Textiles in the
Mongol period and their reflection in the art of the time
(13th-14th
centuries CE). Professor, Paola Frattaroli I
decori tessili di Giotto e della sua scuola, e di Simone
Martini. Independent
scholar, 1.00 lunch at 2.00 Jane Bridgeman
Textiles, dress and the artist in
Renaissance Elena Phipps Aymara
traditions: striped textiles, their origins and
significance in the Southern Andes. Senior
Museum Conservator, Textile Conservation Department,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, organizer and author, with
Johanna Hecht and Cristina Esteras Martin, of exhibition
and catalogue, The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and
Silverwork 1530-1830, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York 2004 3.30 tea 4.00 Jon Thompson Carpets
and Felts in Persian Painting: Problems of interpretation,
previously May Beattie Fellow, 5.10 Evening
of Day 1, Friday 5th December
2008 For map etc. see http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting.aspx 6.30 and again at 7 pm Rosalind
Janssen will talk give an informal gallery talk on textiles
represented in Ancient Egyptian art (Rosalind Janssen
is a Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London,
and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UCL collections) At the same time it will be possible
to purchase books (we are looking into the
possibility of conference participants being given
various discounts on books). Tas Restaurant, for map see http://www.tasrestaurant.com/find_us.asp, tel.020 7637 4555/1333, good accessibility (lift) 7.45 Conference dinner see
booking form, partners/friends welcome. The restaurant is
very close to the Day 2, Saturday 6th
December 2008 Courtauld Institute of Art, for map see http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/index.html, for detailed information on access please contact jackie.sullivan@courtauld.ac.uk, 0207 848 1449 9.00 Registration for
participants for this day only 9.30 Proceedings, with
breaks for coffee, lunch and tea Papers to include (order
provisional) Hero Granger-Taylor Textiles
in early Mesopotamian art finds from other areas ( Marie-Louise Nosch
References to textiles in Mycenaean
Linear B texts and the evidence of contemporary
wall-paintings. Director, Centre for
Textile Research, Lauren McGhee - "The
representation of wool and linen textiles in Roman-period
mummy portraits from Antinoopolis in Middle Rosemary Crill - Textiles
in the wall paintings at Ulla Mannering Gold
Sheet Figures from Migration-period Lisa Monnas Problems
in the chronology of 14th
century Italian textiles with reference to paintings.
Independent scholar, Rembrandt Duits - The
monetary value of textiles represented in Renaissance
painting. Assistant Curator (Photographic
Collection) Warburg Institute, Maria Hayward Fact
or fiction? An analysis of two portraits of Elizabeth I
at 5 pm finish Related activities, 4th-7th
December 2008 Thursday 4th
December 1 pm Lisa Monnas will be
giving the Lunchtime Talk in the Lecture Theatre at the National
Gallery, She will be signing books after
this. c.5 pm We hope to arrange a lecture
on a subject related to our conference theme, perhaps in
conjunction with the Saturday 6th
December After our conference finishes at 5
pm it should be possible to go ice skating in the
courtyard of Somerset House. Booking advised: http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/ice_rink/default.asp
Sunday 7th
December 10.15 am Rembrandt Duits has
very kindly agreed to give an informal gallery talk
at the National Gallery, to include paintings
discussed during the conference Business Meeting for Early
Textiles Study Group members hg-t 30/6/08 |
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