Capers, Crockery, and Clocks

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TORCH Network RECSO will be hosting an afternoon of graduate presentations of objects from the Wallace Collection in London, one of the world’s finest collections of 18th and 19th-century paintings, sculpture, furnishings, ceramics and armour.

The talks are a direct result of research pursued on the 'Art of the Enlightenment: Image, Text, Object' module, part of the MSt European Enlightenment course.

Vittoria Fallanca: Interpreting Allegory in Poussin's 'A Dance to the Music of Time'

Thea Goldring: Transformations in Images and Meaning in Sèvres Porcelain

Rachel Skokowski: Rotating Dial Clocks and the Visualization of Time in Late Eighteenth-Century France

A buffet lunch will be provided and the talks will begin at 12.30. All are welcome to attend.

 

Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford

Contact name: Adam Bridgen

Contact email: adam.bridgen@ell.ox.ac.uk

Audience: Open to all