Pompeo Batoni 1708-1787 Friday 16 May 2008 The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Pompeo Batoni, Sir Humphrey Morice (1723-1785), 1761-62, oil on canvas, Sir James and Lady Graham, Norton Conyers, North Yorkshire
This one-day conference to be held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, will address a range of topics related to the exhibition, ‘Pompeo Batoni 1708-1787, at the National Gallery, London (20 February – 18 May 2008), and previously at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (21 October 2007 – 27 January 2008). The exhibition, curated by Edgar Peters Bowron, the Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art at the MFAH, and Peter Björn Kerber, Assistant Curator of Paintings, J. Paul Getty, Museum, Los Angeles, is the most comprehensive survey of Batoni’s work to date. While it contains major portraits commissioned by British, Irish and European travellers in Italy, the exhibition also explores in depth Batoni’s historical and mythological paintings – an aspect of Batoni’s work which has been overshadowed in Britain by his Grand Tour portraiture. The papers delivered at the conference will consider Batoni’s oeuvre in relation to portraiture and history painting, and also in the context of both his British and European patrons.
Full conference fee, including coffee, lunch, tea and wine reception: £40. Student and Senior Citizen concessions are available at a reduced rate of £20.
To register for the conference please check availability with Lucy Nixon at the Paul Mellon Centre Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 Email: [email protected], then send a cheque made payable to the Paul Mellon Centre to: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 16 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3JA and include a stamped addressed envelope. Programme
Morning session to be chaired by Christopher M. S. Johns (Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art and Chair of the Department, Vanderbilt University). The afternoon session will be chaired by Edgar Peters Bowron (The Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art, MFAH).
09.45 Registration
10.00 Welcome and opening remarks by Brian Allen
10.05 Introduction to the morning session by Christopher Johns
10.15 Paulo Coen (Università della Calabria), Imperiali and Batoni, Batoni and Imperiali: The Historical and Social Background
10.45 Peter Björn Kerber (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), Seamless Sartorial Theology in Batoni’s Altarpieces
11.15 Coffee
12.00 Christoph Frank (Università della Svizzera italiana), Batoni’s Russian Patrons
12.30 Nicola Figgis (University College, Dublin), Batoni and His Irish Patrons
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Introduction to the afternoon session by Edgar Peters Bowron
14.45 Clare Hornsby (The British School at Rome), Serving the 'Lovers of the Virtù': Batoni, Barazzi and the Dealers
15.15 Stephen Lloyd (Scottish National Portrait Gallery), Batoni and the Portrait Miniature
15.45 Tea
16.30 Aileen Ribeiro (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Batoni and the Arts of Fashion
17.00 Summary by Edgar Peters Bowron, followed by questions and discussion
18.00- Wine reception 19.00