Another Horizon. Northern Painters in Rome 1814–1870

Programme

Day One

Monday, October, 19, 2015
Accademia di Danimarca

9.30 Coffee and registration

10.00 Greetings
Marianne Pade, Director, Accademia di Danimarca
Kristian Göransson, Director, Istituto Svedese

Introduction to the conference
Martin Olin, Stockholm

Session 1: Sociability, Networks (chair: Martin Olin)

10.30
Asher E. Miller, New York
Northerners in Italy: Interaction, Transmission, Collaboration

11.00
Jens Peter Munk, Copenhagen
Life among foreign artists in Rome as seen from a Danish perspective

11.30
Sine Krogh, Copenhagen
Friendships in the Age of Romanticism. The Portrait Painter C.A. Jensen in Rome

—— Break (12.00-12.15)

12.15
Jan D. Cox, Leeds
Thomas Fearnley in Italy: Industry, sociability, liminality

12.45
Golo Maurer, Rome
Rom-Angst or Failing in Rome

Lunch 13.30-14.30

Session 2 – Reshaping Artistic Practices (chair: Magnus Olausson,Stockholm)

14.30
Torsten Gunnarsson, Stockholm
Nordic Open-Air Oil Sketching in Italy c. 1810-1850. Origins,practice, technique and contemporary evaluation

15.00
Carl-Johan Olsson, Stockholm
Expectation, Experience and Memory – Oil sketches in the light of studio works and vice versa

15.30
Alexander Kaczmarczyk, Frankfurt a.M.
”New” classical fragments ? C.W. Eckersberg’s landscape and genre paintings

16.00
Katarina Lykke Grand, Aarhus
Tourists in Rome? – Travel images and writings by Danish painters 1830-1855

Discussion

Break 17-18

Key-note lecture

18.00
Kasper Monrad, Copenhagen
C.W. Eckersberg in Rome 1813–16. The Beginning of an Epoch and the Beginning of an End

Day 2 (Tuesday, October, 20)
Istituto Svedese

Session 3 – Addressing New Genres (chair: Liliana Barroero)

9.30
Giovanna Capitelli, Cosenza
The Roman People: a new genre of painting in cosmopolitan Rome

10.00
Ilenia Falbo, Cosenza
Jacob Lindström vs Bartolomeo Pinelli: Illustrating the Roman "Popolo" during the early 19th Century

10.30
Sarah Timme, Frankfurt a.M.
Norse myths in Rome

discussion

Break 11–11.15

Session 4 – Workshop panel: Thorvaldsen’s Collection of Paintings
(chair: Ernst Jonas Bencard, Copenhagen)

11.15 – 11.30
Kira Kofoed
A Collection of Paintings with a Significant Lack

11.35 – 11.50
Laila Skjøthaug
Facing the artist in Rome: Portraits of Bertel Thorvaldsen

11.55 – 12.10
Karen Benedicte Busk-Jepsen
A Home in Rome: Louise Seidler’s portrait of Franziska Caspers

12.15 – 12.30
Lejla Mrgan
San Paolo fuori le mura as a ruin

12.35 – 12.50
Ernst Jonas Bencard
Does art need to be so heavy?

Discussion

Lunch 13.00-14.00

Session 5 – National developments and identities (Chair: Lars Berggren,
Rome)

14.00
Mikael Ahlund, Uppsala
North vs. South. Italy, landscape painting and national identity

14.30
Anja Gerdemann, Darmstadt
The Construction of the North in Adolph Tidemand’s Genre Paintings

15.00
Matthias Matz, Berlin
A Finn in Rome: Robert Wilhelm Ekman’s journey to Rome in 1840

Break 15.30–15.45

15.45
Andreas Dehmer, Dresden
Evelina Stading. A female painter from Sweden, Dresden Romanticism, and Italian landscapes

16.15
Tiziano Antognozzi, Lucca
Facing Rupture: Swedish Painters and the Roman Revolution (1846–1849)

16.45
Asker Pelgrom, Utrecht
Dutch artists and Rome (1840-1870): the Risorgimento as a reference culture

17.15 – Round table discussion

Drinks and farewell

The conference is a collaboration between Accademia di Danimarca / Det
Danske Institut i Rom, Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma / Svenska
Institutet i Rom and the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Generous financial support has been granted from Föreningen Svenska
Rominstitutets Vänner and Ny Carlsbergfondet.

Scientific committee: Tiziano Antognozzi, Liliana Barroero, Giovanna
Capitelli, Kristian Göransson, Martin Olin, Marianne Pade, Adelaide
Zocchi.