The Courtauld Institute of Art: Third Early Modern Symposium: Art Against the Wall
23 October 2011
This one-day symposium will explore the relationship between walls and art in early modern visual culture. During the period 1550-1850 the interplay between work and wall became increasingly complex as art objects began to pull away from the walls which had previously defined them. The enduring association between artistic skill and craft production meant that many art works were often still regarded as elements in overarching decorative schemes; paintings installed in eighteenth-century English domestic interiors, for example, continue to be described as part of the ornamentation, even as the furniture, of a room…
Saturday, 19 November 2011
10.00 – 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
The Courtauld Institute of Art
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2011/autumn/nov19_ArtAgainsttheWall.shtml
