The Society for the History of Collecting
are delighted to invite you on
15 January 2024, 7:00 pm (CET); 6:00 pm (GMT)
for an Online Lecture delivered by Alice Martignon
on the subject of 'Art market in Venice from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries: places, protagonists and strategies'
Art market's places in Venice 1853
This talk aims to offer an original excursus on the art market in Venice from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, so on the principal places of sale of works of art, objets d'art and antiquities, as the antique galleries, the secondhand shops, the local, national and international exhibitions – at first the Venice Biennale – and the events, like the auctions, but also on the principal protagonists of this market, from the great antique dealers to the small junk dealers.
In this contribution, we will deal with the strategies adopted in the commerce of art and antiquities, including those for the illicit transport of cultural goods from Venice to foreign countries, so we will also address the laws protecting the historical and artistic heritage, the actions of the Venice Export Office, and the customs control on this precious goods.
Art market's places in Venice in 1910-11
SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY: Alice Martignon (PhD in History of Art, University of Udine) is a Research Grant Holder (post-doc), a member of the Research Group "Characterization of Materials of Cultural Heritage", a collaborator of the Materials Characterization Laboratory and a Subject expert at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She currently coordinates the ARMID@Venezia research project (Ca' Foscari/Venice Conservatory). Her research interests are the art market, the licit and illicit exports of cultural goods, the collecting and the decorative arts, with a focus on the mid-nineteenth-early twentieth century period; she also deals with digital humanities, in particular digitization, virtual restoration and the building up of databases of cultural goods.
*Registration for the event will close on 14 January 2024
