History of Art News and Events
The Waddesdon Files: A Five-Year Collaborative Project for MA students
The University of Buckingham partners with Waddesdon Manor on a five-year collaborative project between two taught MA programmes.
New teaching partnership with the Wallace Collection
Wishing to pursue a career in a heritage organisation, antique-dealing, auctioneering, museums, conservation or interior design? A limited number of full-time and part-time places are available on the MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors starting in October 2019 and…
Alumnus appointed as Riesener Project Coordinator at the Wallace Collection
Congratulations to Alexander Collins, MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors alumnus, for his recent appointment as Riesener Project Coordinator at the Wallace Collection. The Riesener Project is a collaboration between The Wallace Collection, the Royal Collection Trust and Waddesdon Manor,…
Call for papers: The Roman art world in the 18th century and the birth of the art academy in Britain
The Accademia di San Luca and the British School at Rome (BSR) invite submissions for papers for the conference The Roman Art World in the 18th Century and the Birth of the Art Academy in Britain, to be held in…
Publication of the week: Dr Barbara Lasic
Barbara Lasic, “Ethnicity”, in P. McNeil (ed.), A Cultural History of Fashion Vol.4: The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This…
Publication of the week: Dr Adriano Aymonino
Adriano Aymonino & Manolo Guerci, “The architectural transformation of Northumberland House under the 7th Duke of Somerset and the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, 1748-86”, The Antiquaries Journal 96 (2016), 315-61. DOI: 10.1017/S0003581516000676. Northumberland House constituted one of the…
History of Art MA mentioned in <em>The Guardian</em>
A Guardian survey of postgraduate degrees in the art market includes a report on Buckingham’s MA in the Art Market and the History of Collections. Jeremy Howard is quoted, saying “The unique selling point of the course is that it…
Talk by Dr Barbara Lasic at the Wellcome Collection
On 24 March 2016, Dr Lasic is giving a talk at the Wellcome Collection in London entitled Dangerous Liaisons. Vilified and mocked, yet irresistibly enticing, cosmetic artifice in the eighteenth century was no longer the preserve of wealthy elites and was…
62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (April 2016)
Dr Adriano Aymonino will give a paper at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016): “From practice to theory: the role of the Antique in Italian Renaissance workshops”. Here is the abstract…
Paper by Adriano Aymonino at Georgian Group symposium
Dr Adriano Aymonino spoke at the Georgian Group’s symposium on Robert Adam and His Brothers (23-24 September 2015). His paper was entitled “Robert Adam and the birth of the ‘true style of antique decoration’: the interiors at Kedleston Hall and…