International Conference “Collecting Antiquities from the Middle Ages to the End of the Nineteenth Century”, University of Wrocław, 25 – 28 March, 2020
International Conference “Collecting Antiquities from the Middle Ages to the End of the Nineteenth Century”, University of Wrocław, 25 – 28 March, 2020
Wednesday, March 25 (University of Wrocław Museum, 1 Uniwersytecki Square)
5:00 pm
Registration Desk Open
Receive name badges, programs, and folders
6:00 pm
Opening of the exhibition: Nineteenth-century collections of antiquities from Polish museums
Reception hosted by the University of Wrocław Museum
Thursday, March 26 (University of Wrocław Museum, 1 Uniwersytecki Square)
8:30 Registration
9:00 am Opening of the Conference (Director of the University of Wrocław Institute of Art History – Prof. Romuald Kaczmarek)
9:15 am Opening Lecture (honorary guest - Prof. Krzysztof Pomian)
10:00 am – 1:15 pm
- I. European Collections of Antiquities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Massimo Cultraro (University of Palermo)
Hans Rupprecht Goette (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin), About the History of the Collection of Greek and Roman Sculptures of Sir Charles Nicholson
Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma (National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden), Creating Antiquity: From ‘Archaeological Cabinet’ to a National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818 – 1840
11:00 – 11:15 am Coffee Break
Elena Santagati (Università di Messina), Collecting in Sicily in the 19th Century: Baron Judica and the Wonders of Ancient Akrai
Paweł Gołyźniak (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), Philipp von Stosch (1691 – 1757) – Collecting, Visual Documentation, Research and Publication of Ancient Engraved Gems as an Example of Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism into Proto-Archaeology
Zoltán Suba (Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest), Master and Disciple. Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Private Collection and Its Impact on Neoclassicism
Francesca Ceci, Isabella Serafini (Capitoline Museum, Rome), The Presence of the Sobieski Royal Family in the Collection of the “Soprintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali di Roma”, in the Roman chronicles and in Rome: A Historical Commentary
1:15 – 2:30 pm Lunch (Institute of Art History, 36 Szewska Street)
2:30 – 5:30 pm
- II. Chosen Objects from the European Collections of Antiquities.
Chair: Hans Rupprecht Goette (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin)
Anna Głowa (Catholic University of Lublin), Joanna Sławińska (Jagiellonian University Museum), Late Antique Textiles from Egypt in the Jagiellonian University Archaeological Cabinet
Gaius Stern (University of California, Berkeley), The Pieces of the Ara Pacis Augustae
Annarita Martini (Independent Researcher, Rome), From the Capitol to the Louvre: the Journey of a Mithraic Relief
Eliška Petřeková (Masaryk University, Brno), Franz von Koller and the mystery of the bronze tripod from the Real Museo Borbonico in Naples
Giulia Moretti Cursi (University of Rome), The Dionysian Ancient Reliefs of the Cardelli’ Collection: A Product of 17th Century Classicism or an Interpretative Paradigm?
Luca Salvatelli (Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo), “Anno ab incarnatione Domini Nostri MLXVI”: A Note about Halley Comet in Viterbo’s Archbishop Librarian collection
5:30 – 5:45 pm Coffee Break
5:45 – 7:15 pm
- III. Collecting Prehistoric Antiquities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Luca Salvatelli (Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo)
Wojciech Nowakowski (University of Warsaw), Collections of ‘Homeland Antiquities’ from East Prussia in 18th Century (in German)
Massimo Cultraro (University of Palermo), After the Universal Flood. Collecting Prehistoric Antiquities in Sicily during the 18th Century
Serena D’Amico (Università degli Studi di Catania), The Von Andrian Collection of Prehistoric Antiquities
7:30 pm Dinner (“Capri” restaurant, 21 Więzienna Street)
Friday, March 27 (University of Wrocław Museum, 1 Uniwersytecki Square)
8:30 am Registration
9:00 – 11:00 am
- IV. Classica Hungarica. The Collection of Antiquities in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest in Context
Chair: Árpád Miklós Nagy (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Edit Szentesi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), The most Important Hungarian Private Collection of Classical Antiquities Ever: Gábor Fejérváry and the Fejérváry-Pulszky Collection
Árpád Miklós Nagy (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), Classica Hungarica. A History of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Eszter Süvegh (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), The Historical Plaster Cast Collection of Sculptures in Budapest
Tamás Szabadváry (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest), ‘(…) not a provincial product, but it had been imported from Italy(…)’ – Contributions to the Art Object Transfers Between the Hungarian National Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
11:00 – 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am – 1.15 pm
V. Contribution of Polish and Lithuanian Aristocrats in Collecting Antiquities in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma (National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden)
Aistė Paliušytė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius), Antiquities in the Collection of the Radziwiłłs in the 18th Century
Monika Rekowska (University of Warsaw), Sense and Sensibility – Izabela Czartoryska and Her Collection of Antiquities
Dorota Gorzelany-Nowak (National Museum, Cracow), The Overlooked Collection. The Ancient Art Collection of the Princes Czartoryski Museum
Paweł Gołyźniak (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), Constantine Schmidt-Ciążyński (1818 – 1889) – His Outstanding International Career at the Art Market and Collecting of Engraved Gems and Old Masters Paintings
1:15 – 2:45 pm Lunch (Institute of Art History, 36 Szewska Street)
2:45 – 3:45 pm
- VI. Philhellenic collection of antiquities
Chair: Monika Rekowska (University of Warsaw)
Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen (National Museum of Copenhagen) – the title of the presentation will be given later.
Agata Kubala (University of Wrocław), From Greece to Wrocław. Eduard Schaubert’s Collection of Antiquities
3:45 – 5:15 pm
- VII. Silesia Antiqua. Collecting Antiquities in the Nineteenth-Century Wrocław and the Lower Silesian Area
Chair: Monika Rekowska (University of Warsaw)
Krzysztof Demidziuk (Archaeological Museum, Wrocław) – Ancient Finds in the Collection of the Royal Museum of Art and Antiquities in the Time of Johann G.G. Büsching (1818-1829) – in German
Magdalena Palica (Stadtbibliothek Weberbach, Trier) – Antiquities Collections in Silesia – Terra Incognita?
Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk (University of Wrocław Museum), Collecting Copies of Antiquities – Casus of the University of Wrocław (in German)
5:15 – 5:30 pm Coffee Break
5:30 – 6:00 pm Closing presentation:
Vinnie Nørskov (Museum of Ancient Art and Archaeology, Aarhus University), When is a collection a collection? Provenance studies and the role of dealer’s collections
6:00 pm Summarizing and Closing the Conference
7:00 pm Dinner („Capri” restaurant, 21 Więzienna Street)
Saturday, March 28
9:45 am (leaving 10:00 am) Post-Conference Tour: sightseeing of Wrocław’s main tourist attractions: the Main Market; main building of the University of Wrocław (with particular emphasis on the “Leopoldina” Assembly Hall with its beautiful baroque paintings); the Cathedral Island “Ostrów Tumski”
1:00 pm Lunch (Institute of Art History, 36 Szewska Street)
