Collecting the art of light. Glass, connoisseurship and the art market in the 19th century
An international symposium dedicated to glass art, collecting and the art market during the 19th century. In particular, it will present the results of the Corpus Vitrearum project "Les vitraux historiques des collections publiques de la Ville de Genève", led by the Vitrocentre Romont in close collaboration with Musée Ariana, which holds all of the 400 or so stained-glass windows studied.
Programme:
vendredi 7 mars | 10h - 19h
(Musée d'Art et d'Histoire)
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samedi 8 mars | 9h - 13h30
(Musée Ariana)
Recontextualisation de vitraux dans l’architecture
Modération : Ambre Oggier (Musée Ariana)
9h - Märchenlicht versus herrschaftliches Panorama. Glasmalerei in den
Schlössern Rheinstein und Stolzenfels
Claudia Sedlarz (CVMA, Stained Glass Research Center Potsdam,
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
9h30 - Swiss Heritage and Swiss Glass: the Winns of Nostell Priory and the
Glazing of Wragby Church, West Yorkshire
Joseph Spooner (Corpus Vitrearum Great Britain)
Collections publiques
Modération : Rafaël Villa (UNIGE)
10h - Inventorisation, étude et diffusion : gros plan sur les vitraux des
collections publiques de la Ville de Genève
Valérie Sauterel and Aude Spicher (Vitrocentre, Romont)
10h30 - Glas : Sammeln und Bewahren. Einblicke in die Bestände der Tiroler
Landesmuseen
Christina Wais-Wolf (Corpus Vitrearum Austria/Austrian Academy
of Sciencesn) and Christina Zenz (Tyrolian State Museums)
11h - Pause café
Modération : Claire FitzGerald (Musée Ariana)
11h30 - La collection du musée de Cluny : un temps privilégié pour l’enri-
chissement (XIX e siècle), un autre pour l’étude (XXe siècle)
Sophie Lagabrielle (Musée de Cluny - Musée du Moyen Age, Paris)
12h - Abbot Vincenzo Zanetti and the european circle of glass connois-
seurs
Simona Larghi (Independent researcher, Venice and Milan)
12h30 - Raymond Chambon (1972-1976), collectionneur visionnaire et
controversé
Catherine Thomas (Musée du Verre de Charleroi)
Conclusion
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Full program
Find out more on the Vitrocentre website: Collecting the Art of Light