Artistic Commerce and Confrontation in the Portuguese and Spanish Empires

International conference

University of Zurich

6-7 December, 2012

• David Young Kim (UZH)
• Jens Baumgarten (Unifesp)
• Tristan Weddigen (UZH)

Thursday, December 6, 2012

KOL-E-13 (Senatszimmer)

• 10:30 - 10:45 Greetings and Introduction
  DAVID YOUNG KIM (University of Zurich)
  JENS BAUMGARTEN (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
  TRISTAN WEDDIGEN (University of Zurich)
• 10:45- 11:30 Roundtable
  moderated by David Young Kim (University of Zurich)
  ALAN CHONG (Asian Civilisations Museum)
  HANNAH BAADER (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut)
  MARGIT KERN (University of Hamburg)
  ANDRÉ LUIZ TAVARES PEREIRA (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
  GERHARD WOLF (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut)
• 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break

Travelling objects

• 11:45 - 12:15 PETER MARK (Wesleyan University; Humboldt-Universität, IGK Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive)
  An Art of Trans-Cultural Communication: The Iconography of 16th- and 17th-century Luso-African Salt Cellars
• 12:15 - 12:45 LUISA ELENA ALCALÁ (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  Shaping Hispanic Taste: the Jesuits as Global Agents Connecting Europe and America
• 12:45 - 13:00 Discussion
• 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Merchants and Collecting

• 14:30 - 15:00 ANNEMARIE JORDAN GSCHWEND (Centro de História de Além-Mar, Lisbon and Switzerland)
  Shopping in the Renaissance – Merchants as Cultural Mediators in Spain, Portugal and their Overseas Empires
• 15:00 - 15:30 CHRISTINE GÖTTLER (Institute of Art History, University of Bern)
  "A Storehouse of all Goods and Riches": Antwerp, the Portuguese Merchants, and the Oriental Indies
• 15:30 - 15:45 Discussion
• 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

Transatlantic Rituals

• 16:15 - 16:45 CÉCILE FROMONT(University of Chicago)
  Dancing for the King of Congo from Early Modern Central Africa to Colonial Brazil
• 16:45 - 17:15 MARGRIT KERN (Freie Universität Berlin; University of Hamburg)
  Translation Processes in the Art of the Early Modern Age: “The Mass of Saint Gregory”, a Feather Mosaic from 1539
• 17:15 - 17:30 Discussion

Evening Lecture

KOL-E-18

• 18:30 - 19:30 LUÍS DE MOURA SOBRAL (Université de Montréal)
  Vanitas in the Tropics. Manuel da Costa Athaíde (1762-1830) and the End of a Pictorial Genre

Friday, December 7, 2012

KOL-G-212

Colonial Materiality

• 09:30 - 10:00 CHARLENE VILLASEÑOR BLACK (Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles)
  'Enconchados' and Iridescence: Materials, Meaning, and Trade
• 10:00 - 10:30 MARI-TERE ÁLVAREZ (J. Paul Getty Museum)*
  He Who Controls the Palo de Brasil Controls the World
• 10:30 - 10:45 Discussion
• 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

Missionary Spaces

• 11:15 - 11:45 HANNAH BAADER (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut)
  Goa – The City and Transformations of Space
• 11:45 - 12:15 MARKUS NEUWIRTH (University of Innsbruck)
  The Good Shepherd of Goa
• 12:15 - 12:30 Discussion

The Miraculous in the New World

• 13:30 - 14:00 ASTRID WINDUS (University of Hamburg)
  Diego de Ocaña and the Implementation of the Cult of the Virgin de Guadalupe in Charcas (1600-1)
• 14:00 - 14:30 CLARA BARGELLINI (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
  Coins and Miracles: How Engraving Arrived in New Spain and What It Meant
• 14:30 - 14:45 Discussion
• 14:45 - 15:15 Coffeebreak

Maritime Devotion

• 15:15 - 15:45 URTE KRASS (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  The Performative Use of a Statue of Saint Francis Xavier in late 17th-century Goa
• 15:45 - 16:15 PEDRO MOURA CARVALHO (Asian Civilisations Museum)
  Exporting Exotic Works of Art into Japan, around 1600: The fumi-e
• 16:15 - 16:30 Discussion

Visions of Empire

• 16:30 - 17:00 CHRISTINA M. ANDERSON (University of Oxford)
  The Portuguese Empire through Flemish Eyes: The Indian Gem Trade and the Jeweller-Merchant Karel Helman
• 17:00 - 17:30 MARIA BERBARA (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
  Visual Constructions of the Portuguese Empire
• 17:30 - 17:45 Q & A
• 17:45 Concluding Remarks
  DAVID YOUNG KIM (University of Zurich)
  JENS BAUMGARTEN (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
  TRISTAN WEDDIGEN (University of Zurich)

Connecting Art Histories, The Getty Foundation

*sponsored by SNF (Schweizerischer Nationalfond)

Universitdade Federal de São Paulo

Fundação de Apoio à Universidade Federal de São Paolo

University of Zurich