{"id":7797,"date":"2017-10-27T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2017-10-27T18:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T23:04:18","slug":"christopher-johns-to-present-lecture-october-31-at-international-symposium-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2017\/10\/christopher-johns-to-present-lecture-october-31-at-international-symposium-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Johns to Present Lecture October 31 at International Symposium in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7798\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2017\/10\/VilladellaRegina_Turin.jpg\" alt=\"VilladellaRegina_Turin\" width=\"445\" height=\"335\" \/>Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700-1820<\/em>, an international symposium held October 29-31 in London, will bring together eminent academicians and museum scholars to investigate the role played by royal women&#8212;electresses, princesses, queens consort, reigning queens, and empresses&#8212;in the shaping of court culture and politics in Europe of the long eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will present the lecture, &#8220;Two Queens and a Villa: Enlightenment Sociability in Turin,&#8221; on October 31 in the Tower of London. Other venues are Kensington Palace and Hampton Court Palace.\u00a0 Papers will explore such themes as royal women as political agents; royal women: networks and conversations; royal women as patrons of art and architecture; royal women and the crafting of image, and royal women: engaging with technology and nature.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research has explored how in fulfilling these roles they made major contributions to the arts; the development of new models of philanthropy and social welfare; the promotion and support of advances in science and medicine; as well as trade and industry; and the furthering of imperial ambition. While local contexts may have conditioned the forms such initiatives took, their objectives were rooted in a European tradition of elite female empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day symposium was organized by Historic Royal Palaces, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, in association with the exhibition &#8216;<a title=\"Enlightened Princesses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrp.org.uk\/kensington-palace\/explore\/enlightened-princesses\/\">Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World<\/a>&#8216;, on view at Kensington Palace from June 22 through November 12, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>*Garden facade of Villa della Regina,Turin, Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700-1820, an international symposium held October 29-31 in London, will bring together eminent academicians and museum scholars to investigate the role played by royal women&#8212;electresses, princesses, queens consort, reigning queens, and empresses&#8212;in the shaping of court culture and politics in Europe of the long eighteenth century. 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