Collecting, Collectors and the Market for Islamic Art from the 19th to the 20th Century
January 24, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Collecting, Collectors and the Market for Islamic Art from the 19th to the 20th Century
Date: 24 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
This seminar is geared towards providing an overview of collecting, collectors and market of Islamic art objects in order to analyze their motives and interests. It will focus on Italy, especially in the years bridging the nineteenth and twentieth century, and will pinpoint the channels of acquisition (sales, antique dealers, museum directors) and the mechanisms of selection of specific artifacts which now are part of the Islamic collections in the most important museum of the world.
Speaker: Daniela Cecutti
Daniela Cecutti is a graduate of the University of Udine (Italy), where she studied art history and specialised in non-European art. She obtained her PhD in 2013, after defending her dissertation on collections of Islamic arms and armour, entitled Collecting and the market for Islamic Art from the 19th to the 20th Century; Italy and the International context. She has collaborated with several Italian museums; has published scholarly articles and essay in academic journals and exhibition catalogues, and has published a monograph on the subject of Italian collecting of Islamic art Una miniara inesauribile: L’Italia e il contesto internazionale tra Ottocento e Novecento.
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