First Lecture on 31 January 2018
Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the surviving art objects, thanks to ever developing research questions and methodologies. This topic helps us to think about the agents and their networks (artists, patrons and other market consumers), objects and socio-economic factors (making, buying and trading) as well as the broader cultural issues of the transmission of skills and ideas (the movement of artists, objects and imagery). Our lecture series brings together leading experts in medieval and early modern historical periods in and beyond Europe, particular highpoints for the study of workshop practices, and also those researching workshop continuities and changes in later centuries, including digital mediation.
The aim of our lecture series on the artistic workshop is to speak to an interdisciplinary audience who are interested in thinking about issues such as agency and the commission, production and the use of art works and objects in the widest possible sense as well as those attuned to the theoretical implications these issues have for visual and material culture of all ages/periods. The lecture series will be free and open to a wide public.
Co-organisers: Joanne Anderson and Eckart Marchand
Lecture Series supported by the University of London Coffin Trust Fund
For details on individual lectures visit: SAS events page
Programme
Inside Pygmalion’s workshop: Ivory carving in Gothic Paris
31 January 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute,
Description
Speaker: Sarah Guerin, University of Pennsylvania
Manuel Arias (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid) Alonso Berruguete, "the son of Laocoon", and his assimilation of classical sources
7 February 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Manuel Arias, Museo Nacional da Escultura, Valladolid
Tessa Murdoch (V&A) Master and Apprentice: Transferring skills in the London Huguenot communities
21 February 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Tessa Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum
Andy Murray (Open University) The Socialisation and Specialisation of Workshop Labour at the Charterhouse of Champmol
21 March 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Andy Murray, Open University
Adam Lowe (Factum Arte, Madrid) Mediation and Transformation | Alchemy and New Technology: Factum Arte’s workshop practice in an age of 3D recording and printing
9 May 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Adam Lowe, Factum Arte, Madrid
Glyn Davies (Museum of London) ‘Goldsmiths, ivory carvers, embroiderers: identity in the medieval workshop’
16 May 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Glyn Davies, Museum of London
Michelle O’ Malley (Warburg Institute) Botticelli, his assistants and the business of the workshop
6 June 2018 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Michelle O'Malley, Warburg Institute
Joris van Gastel (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome) - The Bernini Workshop (Re)visited
20 June 17:30-19:30
Venue: Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Joris van Gastel, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
Therese Martin (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid) Re-opening the Treasury: Meaning in Materials at San Isidoro de León
27 June 17:30-19:30
Venue Warburg Institute
Description
Speaker: Therese Martin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid
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