York - National Gallery Collaborative Research Partnership: Activities and Achievements

2016

Jeanne Nuechterlein's article is due to be published in the National Gallery conference proceedings, 'Primitive Renaissances'.
July: National Gallery curators visit York for research partnership meeting to discuss current and future collaborations.
July: Nicola Sinclair gave her final report on her CDA at the National Gallery.
April: Susanna Avery-Quash, Senior Research Curator (History of Collecting) lectured at York on 'John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823): Patron and Promoter of British Art in Georgian London'.
April: Nicola Sinclair submitted her PhD on 'Early German Art in the National Gallery and Beyond: The Case of the Krüger Collection and its Reception in Britain in the Latter Half of the 19th Century'.

2015

November: Caroline Campbell, Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500, gave a paper on 'Bellini and the Santo in Padua' for 'The Venice that Made Bellini', an international workshop in York convened by Emanuele Lugli of the History of Art Department.
July: Nicola Sinclair, holder of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, presented a paper at the National Gallery seminar for CDA students.
June: Amanda Lillie (York) gave a paper entitled 'The in-between bits: Piero's architectural interstices' at the international conference 'Piero della Francesca and Disegno' organised by the National Gallery and the Courtauld Institute.
March: Anthony Geraghty (York) gave a paper on ‘Experiencing Castle Howard’ and Richard Johns (York) gave a paper on ‘Mind the Step: animating the country house staircase’ at the Animating the 18th-Century Country House conference at the National Gallery.
Alasdair Flint, holder of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award at the National Gallery, co-supervised by Amanda Lillie (York) and Caroline Campbell (National Gallery), was awarded his PhD for a thesis entitled 'Building the Virgin's House: The Architecture of the Annunciation in Central and Northern Italy 1400-1500'.
Anthony Geraghty (York) and Susanna Avery-Quash (National Gallery) submitted a major AHRC grant application for a research project entitled 'Inventories, Objects, Interiors: Changing Spaces in British Historic Houses c.1500-c.1950'.
January: we formally renewed our Partnership Agreement.

2014

November: Amanda Lillie (York) gave a paper entitled 'Sculpting Architecture: Donatello's Banquet of Herod in Lille' for the National Gallery's Research Seminar.
March: Caroline Campbell, Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500 and Loans Curator, lectured at York on 'Colour at the National Gallery'.

Building the Picture Exhibition - April-September 2014

Amanda Lillie and Caroline Campbell, Curator of Italian Painting before 1500, co-curated the exhibition 'Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting', with the assistance of AHRC collaborative doctoral student Alasdair Flint.
- December: the on-line publication was shortlisted for Apollo Magazine's Digital Innovation Award.
- September: three York post-graduates, James Jago, Alasdair Flint and Livia Lupi convened a post-graduate conference entitled 'Beguiling Structures' at the National Gallery, with doctoral and post-doctoral speakers from universities in London, York, Rome, Lausanne, Paris and Tours, supported by Amanda Lillie's AHRC fellowship.
- July (Episode 93) and May (Episode 91): Podcasts were released on the National Gallery website for the 'Building the Picture' exhibition.
- June: a public interdisciplinary study morning was held at the National Gallery with Martha Fiennes (film maker), Amanda Levite (architect), Caroline Campbell and Amanda Lillie.
- June: Amanda Lillie convened an international scholars' colloquium at the National Gallery, 'Imagining Architecture'.
- May: Caroline Campbell and Amanda Lillie gave a lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, 'Curators in Conversation'.
- April: the Building the Picture online publication was launched together with five short films featuring contemporary perspectives on imaginary architectures.

Strange Beauty Exhibition - January-April 2014

Jeanne Nuechterlein and Susan Foister (Deputy-Director of the National Gallery and Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting) co-curated the exhibition 'Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance'.
- Jeanne Nuechterlein's article 'German Renaissance art through the eyes of the National Gallery' was published in The Burlington Magazine (Number 1331, Volume 156, pages 76-84).
- Jeanne Nuechterlein co-convened a conference at the National Gallery entitled 'Primitive Renaissances: Northern and Germanic Art at the fin de siecle to the 1930s'.
- March: Susan Foister and Jeanne Nuechterlein gave a lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, 'Curators in Conversation'.
- February: Episode Eighty-Eight podcast was released on the National Gallery website for the 'Strange Beauty' exhibition.
- Strange Beauty workshop – ‘Changing Perceptions of German Art: a Workshop on Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance.
- January: pre-opening colloquium for 'Strange Beauty' exhibition.
- Jeanne Nuechterlein worked with Susan Foister, the Deputy Director and Curator of German Painting at the National Gallery, and with AHRC collaborative doctoral student Nicola Sinclair to curate this exhibition, focusing on the history of the museum’s German Painting collection and 'Shifting Perspectives on German Renaissance Art’.

Both exhibitions offered curators, academics and PhD students the opportunity to study innovative art-historical topics, while drawing the public’s attention to little-explored areas of the National Gallery’s own collections.

2013

This was a particularly busy year, during which Jeanne Nuechterlein and Susan Foister worked on their 'Strange Beauty' exhibition, and Amanda Lillie and Caroline Campbell worked on their 'Building the Picture' exhibition at the National Gallery.
Amanda Lillie began her AHRC Fellowship 'Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting' (£136,942.40) in partnership with the National Gallery, enabling her to co-curate the 'Building the Picture' exhibition with Caroline Campbell.

2012

2012 was a productive year for exhibition planning with successful applications to the AHRC by Jeanne Nuechterlein and Susan Foister for the second York-National Gallery collaborative doctoral award, and by Amanda Lillie for a research fellowship to enable her to work on the ‘Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting’ project.
December: Cordula van Wyhe (York) gave a paper entitled 'Swagger and Smirk: Patrician Empowerment and Rembrandt's Night Watch' for the National Gallery's Research Seminar.
York PhD student, Nicola Sinclair, was awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, to write a dissertation on the religious contexts of German art between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, supervised by Jeanne Nuechterlein (York) and Susan Foister (National Gallery).

2011

In 2011, the first year of our partnership, we organised a series of stimulating and ground-breaking talks, seminars and symposia:
- March: Susan Foister, Amanda Lillie and Jeanne Nuechterlein convened a workshop for the Jan Gossaert's Renaissance exhibition at the National Gallery with research papers and discussion taking place in the seminar room and in front of works in the exhibition itself.
- June: Luke Syson came to York to give a revelatory lecture and research seminar on the National Gallery Leonardo exhibition.
- July: Scott Nethersole (Courtauld Institute), Amanda Lillie (York) and Alison Wright (UCL) convened a National Gallery workshop on Botticini’s Coronation/Assumption of the Virgin altarpiece as part of the study day for the ‘Devotion by Design’ exhibition.
- December: Luke Syson, curator of the Leonardo exhibition, led a special visit to the acclaimed exhibition for graduate students and staff from York, the National Gallery and the Department of Theology at King’s College London.

October: York PhD student, Alasdair Flint was awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, to write a dissertation on ‘The Virgin's House and other Architectural Narratives in Renaissance Marian Painting’, supervised by Amanda Lillie (York) and Caroline Campbell (National Gallery).