Ashmo­lean Conference

On 5 and 6 September, 2024, the Census will be co-orga­ni­sing a confe­rence at the Ashmo­lean Museum devoted to the topic ‘Crea­ti­vity and Inven­tion in Anti­qua­rian Drawings (1400–1600)’.

The confe­rence, orga­nised by Cammy Brot­hers, Kath­leen Chris­tian, Jenny Sliwka, and Cathe­rine Whistler, was made possible by gene­rous grants from the Fritz Thyssen Stif­tung, the Berlin Univer­sity Alli­ance Oxford-Berlin Part­ner­ship, and Northe­as­tern Univer­sity. It is  part of the acti­vi­ties of the Census rese­arch focus ‘The Anti­qua­rian Drawing as a Site of Crea­tive Invention’.

Crea­ti­vity and Inven­tion in Anti­qua­rian Drawings (1400–1600)

5 September and 6 September, 2024, Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmo­lean Museum

5 September

14:00–14:30 Jennifer Sliwka (Oxford), Cammy Brot­hers (Boston), and Kath­leen Chris­tian (Berlin) 

Intro­duc­tion

14:30–15:00 Giovanni Santucci (Pisa)

Accu­mu­la­tion, Hybri­diza­tion and Inven­tion in Giovanni Battista Montano’s Anti­qua­rian Drawings 

15:00–15:30 Coffee Break 

15:30–16:00 Michael Waters (New York) 

Archi­tects, Anti­qua­rians, and Endu­ring Invented Anti­qui­ties in the Sixte­enth Century 

16:00–16:30 Marzia Faietti (Bologna)

The Space of Anti­quity in Amico Asper­tini. Memory and its Rejection

16:30–17:00 Discus­sion

6 September

10:15–10:45 Carolyn Yerkes (Princeton)

Ancient Siege and the Early Modern Landscape

10:45–11:15 Eliza­beth Merrill (Ghent)

Fran­cesco di Giorgio’s Anti­qua­rian Empiricism

11:30–12:00 Coffee Break

12:00–12:30 Clare Guest (London)

Essence and Mode: the Sophistic Presence in Anti­qua­rian Aesthetics

12:30–13:00 Robert Gaston (Melbourne)

Histo­rio­gra­phic Mispri­sion: Pirro Ligorio’s Anti­qua­rian Drawing and the Conflict of Scho­larly Disciplines 

13:00–14:15 Lunch, for spea­kers and regis­tered attendees

14:15–14:45 Anna Rebecca Sartore (Ghent)

The Libro Capponi and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder’s Inven­ti­ve­ness in Drawings after the Antique 

14:45–15:15 Tatjana Bartsch (Rome)

Drawing Anti­qui­ties with the Eyes of the Painter. Maarten van Heems­kerck in Rome

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–16:30 Kath­leen Chris­tian (Berlin)

A Census of Supposed Testi­mo­nials of Direct or Indi­rect Obser­va­tions of Possibly at Least Parti­ally Antique Works of Art and Archi­tec­ture Known in the Renaissance 

16:30–17:00 Cammy Brot­hers (Boston)

Archaeo­logy, Anti­qua­ria­nism, and the Art Historian

17:00–17:30 Discus­sion