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For those who will be in New York City for the College Art Association conference next month, the Digital Cicognara Library charter members would like to inform you of a session designed to contextualize research on the renowned Cicognara Library housed at the Vatican.  Organized and to be moderated by independent scholar Jeanne-Marie Musto, this presentation will appeal to those with an interest in the confluence of historical library collections and art movements.

Historic Libraries and the Historiography of Art

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 8:30 am

New York Hilton Midtown

Room: Sutton South

§  Susan M. Dixon, La Salle University, "Rodolfo Lanciani’s Revenge"

§  Dominique Polanco, University of Arizona, "Colonial, Imperial, and National Collecting: Mexican Manuscripts and Their Historical Positions in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espaņa"

§  Jennifer Purtle, University of Toronto, "Borrowing from Books: The Xu Family Library and the Use of Art History against Empire" 

§  Barbara Steindl, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, "The Library of Leopoldo Cicognara: From Bibliophilic Collection to Scholarly Instrument"

 

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Deborah Kempe

Chief, Collections Management & Access

Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

10 East 71st Street | New York, NY 10021

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