
El Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts de Ljubljana organizará los días 23 y 24 de junio de 2022 un interesante congreso titulado “Artistic and architectural heritage of the nobility between old and new regimes: transformations, reinterpretations and new uses” y cuyos temas principales serán:
- Commissions and patronage of the old aristocratic houses and of newly-nobilitated families around and after the middle of the 18th century. Visual representations of the nobility.
- Collections and collecting practices of nobility after the middle of the 18th century.
- Sales, transfers and dispersal of aristocratic art collections.
- Trading objects of aristocratic heritage.
- Reconstructions of noble collections based on archival sources (interior photographs, inventories).
- New architectural commissions of the nobility in the late 18th and the long 19th century and the usage of new styles (historicistic, oriental, Asian) in architecture and interior furnishing.
- Renovations or adaptations of aristocratic residential buildings in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- New institutionalised uses and presentation of castles and manors; the role of organised heritage protection in their preservation.
- Aristocratic heritage and its fate during and after the revolutions and wars.
- Musealisation of aristocratic heritage.
- Visualisation of the nobility and their historical role in the post-WWI and post-WWII art.
CALL FOR PAPERS HASTA EL 15 DE DICIEMBRE