ARTIS - Institute of Art History of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, in partnership with the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Ajuda National Palace-DGPC, organized the VII Colloquium «Art Collections in Portugal and Brazil in the 19th and 20th centuries» under the theme «Royal Collections and Official Collections», which will take place from October 21st to 24th, 2020, at the Ajuda National Palace, in Lisbon.
Official site: https://colecoesdearte2020.weebly.com/
Many artists aspired to have members of the Royal Houses as commissioners or patrons. Examples of refined taste, their choices and options served as a reference for wealthy nobles and bourgeois, increasing the business of artistic production. As artisan workshops become modern commercial firms in an exquisite range of visual and decorative arts, having the privilege of serving a Royal House and achieving 'official supplier' status became a desired position. According to the market precepts, attractive catalogues were prepared, with careful descriptions and the suggestive power of the image is gradually integrated. Several agents are involved in the acquisition process, particularly when it took place abroad, with the Royal and Official Houses, in their respective diplomats, diligent and effective intermediaries. When acquisitions took place in the antiques market, the mechanisms were similar and the choices made were trends to follow.
The practice of royal collections ends up serving as a model for government collections (presidential, regional and municipal), which, in view of other temporalities, adopt particular profiles. Likewise, gifts among heads of state also generate official collections, allowing continuity of opportunities for other generations of artists, designers, dealers, galleries and workshops.
The memory of the profiles of the royal collections is guaranteed in national museums and in some palaces that have been musealized, serving as a reference for many other collectors and triggering a sharing with the public of certain tastes and artistic typologies, a question that remains similar in the official state collections . Many works and objects belonging to these collections are now available in museums without, however, being identified, making it difficult to understand their particularities and acquisition and incorporation strategies.
The VII Colloquium of Art in Portugal and Brazil in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the theme of the Royal and Official Collections, intends to address all this elaborate market process, the phenomena of taste, trend and influence created. The following aspects will also be considered, as an integral part of reflection and study:
- Collections of the Royal / Official Houses and personal and institutional collections of monarchs, heads of state and other statesmen;
- The end of monarchies and the destinations of royal collections - dispersions and accommodations;
- Formation and development of State collections - public profiles and incorporations;
- Official collections at embassies and consulates;
- Musealization of real and official collections;
- The real and official models of collecting and their reverberations in private collections.
Call for Communications | Papers
Submission of Abstracts | until April 20th, 2020
Attention: in view of the current pandemic situation, the deadline for receiving abstracts has been extended until next April 20th.
Communications on the topic presented and related matters are accepted. Those interested should send a summary with a maximum of 300 words, including the title, accompanied by a short curriculum note (maximum one A4 page) to
artis@letras.ulisboa.pt
Abstracts will be analyzed and their acceptance for presentation of communication will be notified to the authors.
Final communications will be submitted for review by the scientific committee. All accepted communications will be published in the form of a record book.
Organisation
ARTIS - Institute of Arte History
Is an R&D unit financed by FCT - Foundation for Science and Tecnology (UID/EAT/04189/2013), dedicated to research and training in art history and heritage sciences.
Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
The PGPVA aims to train researchers, teachers and highly qualified professionals in the field of visual arts. It also aims to promote critical, theoretical and methodological reflection on the field of theory and artistic practice, to encourage scientific and artistic production and its dissemination, to encourage academic cooperation and exchange practices in teaching and research.
Ajuda National Palace
National Monument since 1910, it is not only the former royal housing and decorative arts museum, it is also the seat of other Portuguese institutions linked to culture and the stage for protocol ceremonies. Its management is in charge of the DGPC and the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic.
Organising Committee
Maria João Neto (ARTIS-IHA, FLUL)
Marize Malta (Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
José Alberto Ribeiro (Ajuda National Palace/DGPC)
Scientific Committee
Clara Moura Soares (ARTIS-IHA, FLUL)
Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa (EA-UCP)
Maurício Ferreira Júnior (MIP)
Paulo Knauss (UFF)
Raquel Henriques da Silva (IHA-FCSH/NOVA)
Sonia Gomes Pereira (Escola de Belas Artes - UFRJ)
Teresa Vale (ARTIS-IHA, FLUL)
Vítor Serrão (ARTIS-IHA, FLUL)
Executive Committee
Lúcia Marinho (ARTIS-IHA, FLUL)
Calendar
Submission of Abstracts: April 20th
Acceptance notification: April 20th
Submission of articles: July 20th
Notification of acceptance or reformulation request: July 30th
Submission of final articles: August 31st
Publication of minutes: October 21st
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