New Collecting Narratives: Birmingham Museums' Italian Renaissance and Baroque Decorative Arts Collections

新的收藏叙事：伯明翰博物馆的意大利文艺复兴和巴洛克装饰艺术收藏

• 批准号: 2434515
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2434515
• 关键词: New; Collecting; Narratives; Birmingham; Museums

Birmingham's Italian Renaissance and Baroque decorative art collection, comprising ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture and metalwork, was among the first to be acquired for the city and was exhibited in a dedicated display when Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) opened in 1885. Dating from the 15th-17th centuries, this material was acquired largely either by the BMAG's first director, Whitworth Wallis, during two research trips to Italy, or from the South Kensington Museum's first curator, Charles Robinson. These objects were apparently purchased from Italy's most important 19th-century dealers of Renaissance art including Stefano Bardini and Giuseppe Salvadori, who sold to major institutions across the world. Initial research suggests that material was acquired not only from Florence but from Rome, Milan, Venice, etc.Despite its obvious potential, this collection has not been studied in any depth since its purchase and its significance is little explored. In contrast, acquisitions made in the mid-20th century of Italian Baroque painting and sculpture were the focus of a project to research and redisplay the Baroque galleries at BMAG in partnership with the National Gallery through a curatorial traineeship funded by the Art Fund and the Vivmar Foundation. As BMAG prepares for a major refurbishment and redisplay, it is crucial that the related holdings of decorative art are researched in greater depth, and their significance and connections to other collections fully revealed. The project is therefore timely and original with results feeding directly into planned new displays. The collaborative arrangement will allow the PhD student to benefit from access to curators who have detailed knowledge of individual objects and of the collection itself, as well as from academic supervision by experts in Italian art (including archival research) and in 19th-century display histories and Anglo-Italian artistic relations.

伯明翰的意大利文艺复兴和巴洛克式的装饰艺术系列，包括陶瓷，玻璃，纺织品，家具和金属制品，是该市第一个被收购的人之一，并在伯明翰博物馆与美术馆（BMAG）（BMAG）于1885年开业时在专用展览中展出。这是从15th-17th Centuries开放的，这是该材料的最高收入。瓦利斯（Wallis）在两次去意大利的研究旅行中，或者来自南肯辛顿博物馆（South Kensington Museum）的第一个策展人查尔斯·罗宾逊（Charles Robinson）。这些物品显然是从意大利最重要的19世纪文艺复兴时期艺术经销商那里购买的，其中包括Stefano Bardini和Giuseppe Salvadori，他们卖给了全球主要机构。最初的研究表明，不仅是从佛罗伦萨获得的材料，而且是从罗马，米兰，威尼斯等获得的。尽管有明显的潜力，但由于购买的潜力明显，因此尚未对其进行任何深度研究，而且其意义很少。相比之下，在20世纪中叶，意大利巴洛克式绘画和雕塑进行的收购是研究和重新播放BMAG的巴洛克画廊的重点，并通过由艺术基金会和Vivmar Foundation资助的国家画廊合作，与国家美术馆合作。当BMAG准备进行重大翻新和重新演奏时，至关重要的是，对装饰艺术的相关持有的深度进行了更深入的研究，并且它们与其他收藏的意义和联系充分揭示了。因此，该项目是及时的，原始的，结果将直接馈送到计划的新显示器中。该协作安排将使博士生可以从对单个对象和收藏本身详细了解的策展人以及意大利艺术专家（包括档案研究）和19世纪的展示历史和盎格鲁 - 意大利艺术关系中受益。