1. science
2. social science
3. history

CONNOISSEURSHIP WORKSHOP
18 MARCH 2015
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM LECTURE THEATRE
10:00
Coffee & Tea
10:10
Christina Anderson (History & Ashmolean) Welcome & Introduction
10:20
PANEL 1
Jim Harris (Ashmolean), Chair/Respondent
Peter Stewart (Classics)
‘Visualizing Beazley’s Connoisseurship’
Tom Stammers (St Anthony’s & Durham)
‘Inverting the Louvre: Connoisseurs and amateurs in mid-nineteenthcentury France’
Emma Smith (English)
‘Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Collectors of Shakespeare’s
First Folio’
11:10
PANEL 2
Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean), Chair/Respondent
Tim Wilson (Ashmolean)
‘Not Beazleyan, not Morellian, Just Something Art Historians Do.
Looking at Italian Renaissance maiolica’
Lyce Jankowski (Ashmolean)
‘Developing a Scientific Approach to Coin Collecting: The Nineteenthcentury turning point for Chinese colletors’
Emma Searle (Classics)
‘From Philokaloi to Idiotae: Collectors and Consumers of Art in
Ancient Rome
12:00
COMFORT BREAK
12:10
PANEL 3
Anna Marie Roos (Lincoln), Chair/Respondent
Monica Price (Earth Sciences)
‘Connoisseurs, Scientists and the Mineral Kingdom’
Stephen Harris (Plant Sciences)
‘The Botanical Connoisseur’
Graham Harding (History)
‘”A certain purple hue was suffusing his nose”: Wine connoisseurship
in nineteenth-century England’
13:00
LUNCH
13:30
PANEL 4
Georgi Parpulov (History & British Museum)
‘The Connoisseurship of Byzantine Art’
Yasmine Seale (Oriental Studies)
‘Classical Antiquities in the Ottoman Imagination’
Gratian Vandici (Theology & Europaeum)
‘Strauss against Schleiermacher: Religious connoisseurship between
art and myth’
14:20
Comfort Break
14:30
PANEL 5
Colin Harrison (Ashmolean), Chair/Respondent
Margaret Dalivalle (Keble)
‘”Picturarum verè Originalium”: Inventing originality in early modern
London’
Matthew Walker (History of Art)
‘William Talman’s Petition: Rethinking Architectural Collecting in Early
Eighteenth-century Britain’
Ewa Kociszewska (Medieval and Modern Languages)
‘Connoisseurship and Reputation in Seventeenth-century Paris: The
affair of the diamonds for the Queen of Poland’
15:20
CONCLUDING REMARKS and FINISH