Diocletian's Palace in the works of Adam, Clérisseau and Cassas
International conference organized by Institute of Art History – Cvito
Fiskovic Centre Split
Scientific Committee:
Josko Belamaric (Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fiskovic Split)
Milan Pelc (Institute of Art History Zagreb)
Pierre Pinon (ENSA de Paris-Belleville, École de Chaillot, Institut
national d'Histoire de l'Art Paris)
John A. Pinto (Princeton University)
Ana Sverko (Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fiskovic Split)
Organizing Committee:
Josko Belamaric, Milan Pelc, Ana Sverko
Assistants:
Marina Horvat, Ivana Tadic
The international conference entitled Diocletian's palace in the
works of Adam, Clérisseau and Cassas – Split, November 26-29,
2014, organized by the Institute of Art History, arises out of the
installation research project Dalmatia – a destination of European
Grand Tour in the 18th and the 19th century (2014-2017) of the
Institute of Art History, under the aegis of the Croatian Science
Foundation. The conference is financed by the Croatian Ministry of
Science, Education and Sports and the City of Split.
Researchers from several countries responded to the invitation to
explore the role of Diocletian's Palace in the work of Robert Adam,
Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Louis-François Cassas, as well as the
influence of Diocletian's Palace on the development of European
neo-classicism.
The papers are divided into four groups. The section subtitled
Reading the Place brings together papers primarily devoted to the
ways in which the space is understood and recorded in image and
word, based on the direct observation of the monuments and their
surroundings. Representing the Past collects works in which the
emphasis is placed on depictions of Diocletian's Palace as sources
for scholarship. From today's perspective, they are an important
document concerning the state of the monument of that time.
Here there is also a contribution about the only extant specimen
of the Livorno edition of Adam's Diocletian's Palace. The group
linked by the subtitle Diocletian's Palace and the Adam Style
presents works in which there is discussion of the direct influence
of Diocletian's Palace on the work of Robert Adam, while Lessons
of Diocletian's Palace focuses on the later influences of the works
of Adam, Clérisseau and Cassas about the Palace on neo-classicist
architecture and culture, as well as on later periods and on the
conservation of the Palace itself.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, November 27
Split City Museum
9.00 – 10.00
Registration
10.00
Welcoming remarks
10.30
1st session
Reading the Place
Moderators: Frances Sands, Milan Pelc
10.30
Heather Hyde Minor
Robert Adam as Author
10.55
Angelo Lorenzi
The Adam's point of view
11.20
Ana Sverko
"The view from the Palace is no less beautiful": the context of
Diocletian's Palace in the book Ruins of the palace of the Emperor
Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia
11.45
Isabelle Warin
The Ornamentation of Diocletian's Palace in the work of Louis-François
Cassas (1756-1827)
12.10-12.40
Coffee Break
12.40 - 13.10
Discussion
13.30
Lunch Break
16.00
2nd session
Representing the Past
Moderators: Flora Turner-Vucetic, John A. Pinto
16.00
Josko Belamaric
The Split Peristyle as interpreted by Robert Adam
16.25
Krasanka Majer Jurisic
The 18th Century graphics of the Porta Ferrea and the Communal square In
16.50
Ivan Mirnik, Ante Rendic-Miocevic
Another look at the Livorno edition of Adam's Diocletian's Palace
17.15-17.45
Discussion
17.45 -18.15
Coffee Break
18.30-19.30
Lecture
John A. Pinto
"The most glorious place in the universal world": Rome in the Age of the
Grand Tour
Friday, November 28
Split City Museum
9.30
3rd session
Diocletian's Palace and the Adam Style
Moderators: Heather Hyde Minor, Ante Rendic-Miocevic
9.30
Frances Sands
Reconstructed and in ruins: the influence of Diocletian's Palace within
the drawings of Robert Adam
9.55
John A. Pinto
"The Beautiful Spirit of Antiquity": Robert Adam and Diocletian's Palace
10.20
Colin Thom
'Spalatro' on Thames: or how Diocletian's Palace inspired Robert Adam's
most audacious development – the Adelphi
10.20
Elke Katharina Wittich
Variety and elegance. Details of Diocletian's Palace in architectural
decorations
10.45-11.15
Discussion
11.15 – 12.15
Coffee Break
12.15
4th session
Lessons of Diocletian's Palace
Moderators: Barbara Vujanovic, Fabien Bellat
12.15
Annie Gilet
Dessins et gravures du Palais de Dioclétien à Split par Louis-François
Cassas (1756-1827), un exercice préparatoire aux relevés des grands
sites archéologiques du Levant en 1785
12.40
Amanda Green
Experiential Neoclassicism and the Adam 'Revolution' in English
Architecture
13.05
Stephen Caffey
Imperial Capriccio: The Palace of Diocletian and England's Visual
Cultures of Empire
13.30-14.00
Discussion
14.30
Lunch Break
16.30
4th session
Lessons of Diocletian's Palace
Moderators: Elke Katharina Wittich, Josko Belamaric
16.30
Viktor Lorincz
Local Antiquities and Architecture in the 18th Century Central-Europe:
The Case of Cardinal Migazzi and I.M.A. Ganneval
16.55
Olivia Sara Carli
The influence of Adam, Clérisseau and Cassas on Diocletian's Palace
restoration
17.20
Fabien Bellat
Stalinists avatars of Diocletian Palace
17.45-18.15
Discussion
18.15 -18.45
Coffee Break
18.45-19.45
Lecture
Ivan Mirnik, Ante Rendic-Miocevic
Sheila Mc Nally and excavations of Diocletian's Palace (1968-75)
Saturday, November 29
Diocletian's Palace
9.30 – 12.30
Walking tour in Diocletian's Palace
12.30-13.30
Summary of the Conference
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Diocletian's palace (Split, 27-29 Nov 14). In: ArtHist.net, 20.11.2014. Letzter Zugriff 26.04.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/8947>.