Pride & Ornament Lecture Series

NEW Treasures of the Fondation Napoléon with Karine Huguenaud, Fondation Napoléon, Paris

Thursday 24 May 2012, 7.15 pm to 8.45 pm

The exceptional collection of the Fondation Napoléon comprises memorabilia from the two empires, notably many luxurious objects once belonging to Napoleon I or to other members of the imperial family. The decorative arts are particularly well represented, with some of the most beautiful pieces ever made by the artists and craftsmen of the Napoleonic periods. This illustrated lecture takes a close look at various aspects of Fondation Napoléon, its mission and, especially, works of art in the collection.

KARINE HUGUENAUD is Chargée des Collections at the Fondation Napoléon in Paris and is co-curator of Napoleon: Revolution to Empire, Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2012 which opens at the NGV on 2 June 2012.
This talk is presented at The Johnston Collection with the support of the Fondation Napoléon, Paris and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Manufacture de Sèvres
Vase fuseau au portrait de Napoléon en costume du Sacre d’après Gérard 1812
Paris, Fondation Napoléon, inv. 1165 (acquisition 2002)
© Fondation Napoléon – Patrice Maurin Berthier

Gaming Gardens: Vanity and the Comte D’artois’ Bagatelle with Jennifer Milam

Wednesday 7 March 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

In 1777 the Comte d’Artois played a game with Marie-Antoinette. This youngest brother of Louis XVI bet his sister-in-law 100,000 livres that he could build a château complete with gardens in the time it would take for the Court to return from its annual sojourn at Fontainebleau. Although several of his fellow noblemen believed it was eminently absurd to attempt to achieve such an undertaking in six or seven weeks, Artois won the wager by completing his pleasure house in just 64 days, the prize helping little to defray building costs of over 3,000,000 livres. A spectacular example of how agonistic impulses gave rise to patronage in 18th century France, the case of Artois’s Bagatelle demonstrates the links between vanity and artistic culture in 18th century France.

JENNIFER MILAM is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney. Her books include the Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art (2011), Fragonard’s Playful Paintings, Visual Games in Rococo Art (2006) and Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in 18th Century Europe (2003).

This lecture is supported by The Friends of The Johnston Collection.

Comte d’Artois’ Petite Maison, Jardin de Bagatelle, outside Paris

All In Vain: French Fashion from the Revolution to the Belle Époque with Sylvia Sagona

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

For full description, see Sylvia Sagona Series below

Jacques Tissot, Seaside (July: Speciman of a Portrait), 1878,
collection Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Mirror , Mirror On The Wall: Becoming Beautiful in 19th century Women’s Magazines with Michelle Smith

Wednesday 4 April 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Girls’ and women’s magazines flourished in the 19th century, coinciding with the birth of print advertising and the emergence of department stores. Women eagerly consulted their pages to see the latest fashion plates and corsets, as well as advertisements for beauty products that promised to cure everything from freckles to frizzy hair. This lecture will discuss how these magazines show the birth of modern ideas of beauty but also caution girls and women on the perils of vanity.

MICHELLE SMITH is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne who specialises in girls’ literature. She is the author of Empire in British Girls’ Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 and is currently working on a project comparing Australian, Canadian and New Zealand girls’ print culture from 1840-1940.

Prize Chignons from ‘The Horticultural’, Girl of the Period Miscellany, 1869.

Taking His Name In Vain: Napoleon Bonaparte and his unruly sisters with Sylvia Sagona - SOLD OUT phone 9416 2515 for waitlist

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

For full description, see Sylvia Sagona Series below

Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus Vinctrix, 1804-1806, Borghese Gallery, Rome

Horace Walpole's ‘Fastidious Pain’: Strawberry Hill and the Vanities of Collecting with Beornn McCarthy

Wednesday 2 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

The 4th Earl of Orford, Horace Walpole, was the owner of the neo-gothic manor Strawberry Hill. A fabulous icon of taste and extravagance, Strawberry Hill is a monument to 18th century fashion, and Walpole himself is a central character in any history of vanity. This lecture will introduce a famously eccentric collector, and guide its audience through the many exotic features, vain follies and foibles of Strawberry Hill.

BEORNN MCCARTHY has lectured and tutored in English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. His research spans the 18th and 19th centuries, and is focused on the relationship between literature and collecting in this period. A Masters Graduate, he is in the final stages of his PhD at the University of Melbourne, and is preparing a monograph on the life and letters of Isaac D’Israeli.

Horace Walpole’s likeness seen on a carving at Strawberry Hill after the unveiling of the restoration of the house on 23 September 2010.
photo credit | Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Europe.

Beau Brummell, Dandyism And Neckclothitania with Clara Tuite

Wednesday 9 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

This lecture focuses on the sensational Regency figure of George ‘Beau’ Brummell (1778-1840), the original English dandy. Famous first for his ‘discovery’ of the neckcloth and clean white linen, in 1816 Brummell made a famed midnight Channel crossing to France to escape debts run up in London’s gambling hells. Living in Calais and then Caen, he became an exiled tourist attraction and finally a study in ruination.

CLARA TUITE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests are British Romanticism, and 18th and 19th century literary and cultural history, with a focus on the Regency. She is currently completing a book entitled Proverbial Notorious: Lord Byron and the Rites of Scandalous Celebrity.

R H Cooke, ‘George Brummell in Caen’, Frontispiece, Vol I, Captain Jesse, The Life of George Brummell, Esq., commonly called Beau Brummell, 2 vols., London, 1844

Don't Waste A Wash: Hygiene and History with Valerie Krips

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

The TV advertisement ‘Don’t waste a wash’ assumed that everyone could be nice, clean and hygienic. But a daily shower and the use of deodorant are neither universal nor age-old, so how did people manage in earlier times? When did hygiene become a matter of serious concern in illness? These and other matters concerning hygiene, personal and public, are the topics for this talk about dirt, death, hygiene and the use of soap.

VALERIE KRIPS retired from the English Department, University of Pittsburgh, in 2006. She now lives in Melbourne, where she is a Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and a co-editor of Arena Magazine. Her research interests lie in cultural studies, and in particular heritage and memory.

Children washing in a tub

The Vanity Of Fashion with Roger Leong

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

For centuries, writers and commentators have warned against the vanity of fashion; generally to little effect. This talk spans the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries to discuss some of the ways women have accepted, embraced and endured extremes of clothing styles and, ultimately, physical pain and distortion in the pursuit of fashion.

ROGER LEONG is Curator International Fashion & Textiles at NGV Melbourne and has recently co-curated ManStyle. He has organised numerous exhibitions on historic and contemporary fashion ranging from the time of Jane Austen, The Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev to Shoes, hats and sneaker culture.

Adam Buck (1759-1833), Miss Hester Sarah Fry, England, 1802, (A0991-1989)

Marie-Antoinette Of Spa Resorts: Empress Eugénie and the Search for an Imperial Identity with Eugene Barilo von Reisberg

Tuesday 5 June 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Join Eugene Barilo von Reisberg for another adventure in royal iconography as he explores the hidden meanings and semantic connotations in portraits of Eugenie, Empress of the French (1826-1920), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873), and uncovers a secret language of visual symbolism in the details of dress, jewellery, and accessories that transmit messages of social status, imperial power, dynastic ambitions, and political aspirations.

EUGENE BARILO VON REISBERG is a Melbourne-based arts writer, curator, and blogger. His expertise on Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873), a 19th century German-born international court portraitist, is widely recognised, and he has contributed numerous articles and presented papers on the artist in Australia and internationally. He is currently pursuing a doctoral thesis on the artist at the University of Melbourne.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, The Empress Eugenie Holding Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial on her Knees, 1857

‘The Cruellest Remedy For Human Vanity’: Smallpox and the beautiful face in 18th century Europe with Michael Bennett

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

In 18th century Europe most people caught smallpox. It killed one in ten and left many survivors hideously disfigured, ‘turning the babe into a changeling at which its mother shuddered and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.’ (T B Macaulay)

This talk considers the cultural history of smallpox, especially its perceived role as a scourge of vanity and destroyer of beauty. It likewise considers the attempts to manage smallpox through inoculation, initially with a mild form of smallpox and, later, with a cattle disease known as cowpox that reputedly protected the fair faces of dairymaids.

MICHAEL BENNETT is Professor of History at the University of Tasmania. The author of four books on late medieval and early Tudor England, he is currently writing a book on smallpox and the early global spread of vaccination in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Baptiste Vanmour, Lady Mary Wortley Montague with her son Edward, circa 1717

Vanity – thy name is not Jane Austen! with Lise Rodgers

Thursday 21 June 2012, 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm $30

‘Vanity working on weak heads produces all sorts of mischief’ – so wrote Jane Austen in Emma. Whilst definitely not having such a ‘weak head’ herself, Jane took much delight in pointing the finger at those of her characters who did - Sir Walter Elliot, Mr Collins, Mrs Norris – just to name a few. Let’s get acquainted with Jane’s less likeable characters!

LISE RODGERS is an accomplished Melbourne actress whose career has spanned stage, screen and radio. An interest in the world and characters of Jane Austen is the inspiration behind her series of ‘Jane’ performances.

The Sylvia Sagona Series

Sylvia Sagona is an internationally recognised specialist on 19th century French society. She retired from the French Department at the University of Melbourne to work on historical documentaries for French and Australian television and is currently researching a book on Parisian women in the 19th century.

All In Vain: French Fashion from the Revolution to the Belle Époque

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

The Ancient Roman-inspired white muslin dresses of the French Revolution might look flimsy and vapid but they carried the weight of Republican principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Indeed, the changing role of women in 19th century French society can be gauged by the clothes they wore, from the prison of the corset, crinoline and bustle, to the shorter skirts and cycling pantaloons of the New Woman. Clothes do matter.

Jacques Tissot, Seaside (July: Speciman of a Portrait), 1878,
collection Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Taking His Name In Vain: Napoleon Bonaparte and his unruly sisters SOLD OUT phone 9416 2515 for waitlist

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Napoleon used his three beautiful sisters as pawns in his power game, marrying them to his top generals and placing them on newly created thrones of Europe. But this avaricious, quarrelsome and disloyal trio with none of their brother’s talent, plotted to ruin his marriage, and, through their unbridled ambition, finally contributed to his downfall.

Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus Vinctrix, 1804-1806, Borghese Gallery, Rome

Staging Power: The Paris of Napoleon Bonaparte SOLD OUT phone 9416 2515 for waitlist

Thursday 12 April 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Napoleon, the master of spin and propaganda, used every art form to publicise his image of himself and his regime as he rose from General to Emperor. The city of Paris with its triumphal arches spoke of the glory of ancient Rome, while its plundered art treasures were intended to make it the museum capital of Europe. Even Notre Dame and the bridges over the Seine were altered to stage grandiose spectacles of power.

Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805–07 (exhibited 1808), Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Food, Glorious Food with Margaret and John Leonard

Monday 19 March 2012, 10.15 am to 12.00 pm $30

This illustrated presentation deals not with recipes or cooking but with the food of the poor, usually on the streets of London in Dickens’ lifetime, the changes of diet due to the Industrial Revolution, the effect that these had on health, and a small part at the end which deals with Christmas. John gives readings from Dickens and Henry Mayhew.

MARGARET LEONARD was a French and English teacher and with JOHN LEONARD has diverse experience in the performing arts. They now delight in sharing their enthusiasm for literary classics through their dramatised readings.

from Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, first published as a novel in 1841

Dining With Jane with Lise Rodgers

Thursday 22 March 2012, 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm $30

It is every woman’s dilemma. Guests for dinner – what to serve? For Jane Austen and the women of her time, it was no different. Searching for recipes, gathering ingredients, arranging the table, preparing the food, serving it up … Using cookbooks of the period and of course Jane’s letters, let’s explore the world of Regency food.

LISE RODGERS is an accomplished Melbourne actress whose career has spanned stage, screen and radio. An interest in the world and characters of Jane Austen is the inspiration behind her series of ‘Jane’ performances.

‘A plan of a typical course of nineteen dishes’ from Mrs Fraser, The Practice of Cookery, 1800

Dickens 2012

Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812. In 2012, to celebrate 200 years since his birth, organisations worldwide are planning festivals, exhibitions and much more in honour of the most internationally acclaimed British novelist. 

The Johnston Collection is contributing to DICKENS 2012 with a year-long programme of activities to coincide with the bicentenary.

from Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, first published as a novel in 1841

Dickens & Children with Elisabeth Neales and John and Margaret Leonard

Friday 30 March 2012, 10.15 am to 12.00 pm $30

This presentation starts with a short discussion of Dickens’ own children and his relationship with them. This is followed by an account of the various children that Dickens portrays in the novels, including children of the middle class, cheeky urchins and children of the very poor.

The speaker will be Elisabeth Neales and John and Margaret Leonard will provide dramatised readings.

ELISABETH NEALES is a graduate of Oxford University and has taught English and History in secondary schools in England and Australia. She is currently Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship Melbourne Branch.

JOHN and MARGARET LEONARD have diverse experience in the performing arts and now delight in sharing their enthusiasm for literary classics through dramatised readings.

Dickens The Social Reformer with Elisabeth Neales and John and Margaret Leonard

Friday 13 April 2012, 10.15 am to 12.00 pm $30

This presentation shows that Charles Dickens was very critical of the social conditions and institutions of his time. In his novels, he exposed these conditions often by using humour and satire so that he would not alienate his readers.
The speaker will be Elisabeth Neales and the readers will be John and Margaret Leonard.

ELISABE TH NEALES is a graduate of Oxford University and has taught English and History in secondary schools in England and Australia. She is currently Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship Melbourne Branch.

John and Margaret Leonard have diverse experience in the performing arts and now delight in sharing their enthusiasm for literary classics through dramatised readings.

Dickens bust at Dickens’ birthplace, Portsmouth
photo credit | Roger Edwards

VisitingThe Author: Writers’ House-Museums with Linda Young

Tuesday 8 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

English (and Scottish) literature-lovers began visiting their heroes’ homes and haunts in the early 19th century, and haven’t stopped yet. It was and is a romantic journey of admiration, loyalty and self-identification with characters, places and the creative genius of authors. The taste soon acquired a nationalist tinge as a celebration of English (or Scottish) cultural achievement, which by the later 19th century resonated throughout the British Empire. The three house museums dedicated to Charles Dickens tell the story.

LINDA YOUNG is Course Director in Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies at Deakin University in Burwood. She is writing a book about historic houses as a species of museum – among which, the houses of culture heroes such as writers are very prominent.

Hidden From View: historic houses in the Western District landscape with Christine Reid

Thursday 8 March 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

An examination of the landscapes within the Western District and the siting of historic houses, with particular reference to the houses that will be visited on the upcoming Friends tour.

CHRISTINE REID, a Melbourne-based garden writer with a particular interest in garden history and cultural landscapes, contributes regularly to a wide range of Australian and international publications. With Professor Harriet Edquist, she is undertaking a major study of the cultural geography of western Victoria. When not travelling or visiting other people’s gardens, she likes to tend her own garden, rake and secateurs in hand.

This talk provides an introduction to The Friends of The Johnston Collection Western District tour in March 2012

Dalvui, Noorut

Writing Your Family Story with Glenda Banks

Wednesday 28 March 2012, 10.15 am to 12.45 pm $30

With growing interest in genealogy there is a tendency to undervalue the lived history of our own generation. Each of us has a story to tell: how we have reacted to social
change, survived challenges or built on achievements. How do we mark our page in our continuing family story? This workshop provides insight into the process of writing creative nonfiction: building your data base, developing a framework, settling on a writing style, narrative construct and publishing options.

GLENDA BANKS has a PhD in historiographic metafiction and is the author of seven non-fiction books on contemporary social issues and a commissioned history of Australian health care accreditation. She has just completed a historical novel based on the experiences of Victoria’s mid-19th century goldfields women as described in found diaries, journals, family histories and site records.

Scintillating Surfaces: mother-of-pearl and the decorative arts with Alison Inglis

Saturday 14 April 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

This paper will examine the use of shells (especially mother-of-pearl) in the decorative arts, both as a motif (as in still life painting), and as an ornamental material in its own right. Examples discussed will include shell grottoes, shell furniture and shell objets d’art.

ALISON INGLIS is an internationally recognised specialist in British 19th century art. She also has a research interest in Australian art museums and the history of collecting and display in this country. She is currently researching a book on the circulation of works of art around the British Empire between 1850-1950.

maker unknown, a group of six Victorian shell-work flower displays, late 19th century
photo credit | Christie’s, London, South Kensington

Mad Monks And Naughty Nuns: Figures of Monks and Nuns in English Porcelain with Matthew Martin

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Many 18th century English porcelain factories produced figures representing members of Catholic religious orders. The function of these figures has never been entirely clear. This talk will examine some ideas about the reception of these figures, looking especially at the phenomenon of masquerade, and the existence of 18th century English Recusant art collectors.

MATTHEW MARTIN is Assistant Curator International Decorative Arts and Antiquities at the NGV. His research interests include 18th century porcelain sculpture and the role of Recusant elites as art collectors in 18th century England.

Chelsea porcelain factory, Nun, circa 1752-55, V&A Museum, London, C.205-1940

‘Among The Shining Antique Marbles’: Grand Tourists responses to ancient sculpture in Rome with Lisa Beaven

Thursday 26 April 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

This lecture explores the sensibility that Grand Tourists brought to the experience of viewing ancient statues and the emotional responsiveness that emerged in this encounter. The vogue for looking at various sites and statues by moonlight and torchlight clearly reveals that many wanted to engage their imagination as well as their sight in their encounter with antiquity. Drawing on travel writings and travel accounts, the lecture reconstructs the 18th century Roman context for this viewing experience.

LISA BEAVEN is a lecturer in art history at La Trobe University. She has written widely on patronage and the history of collecting in 17th century Rome, and her book An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his antiquarian and artistic circle in Rome was published in 2010.

While continuing to write about 17th century art collecting, she is also interested in travel and travel writing in early modern Europe.

Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museum, Rome

The Scottish Regency Furniture Of William Trotter with Martin Purslow

Tuesday 1 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

The Edinburgh-based firm of William Trotter was one of the most significant workshops of cabinet makers in Regency Scotland. William Trotter (1772-1833) was born into a family of merchants and by 1809 he was sole proprietor of the firm Young & Trotter.
In 1814-15 Trotter furnished the library and picture gallery that the King’s architect and surveyor for Scotland, Robert Reid (1774 - 1856) had added to Paxton House for George Home. Trotter was regarded as perhaps the most eminent of all Scottish cabinet makers and rosewood was a timber which he worked regularly. Examples of Trotter furniture can also be seen at Government House, Hobart.

MARTIN PURSLOW, CEO, National Trust of Australia (Victoria) was former Director of the National Gallery of Scotland’s first ever outstation, the Paxton Trust. With a background in design and architectural history, he is an expert on Chippendale furniture and Scottish Regency furniture.

detail of Trotter furniture, Paxton House, England

This lecture celebrates the centenary of the discovery of the greatest hoard of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery ever to be found.

The Cheapside Hoard: History revisited with Stephen Gallagher

Thursday 10 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Drawing upon research carried out at the Museum of London, the V&A Museum and the British Museum, Gallagher will provide a detailed examination of this hoard - that lay undisturbed for some 300 years beneath one of London’s busiest streets – and the murky events surrounding its discovery. He will discuss how historical research informs his jewellery practice, and demonstrate the ways in which the past continues to be relevant to contemporary craft and design.

STEPHEN GALLAGHER is a Melbourne-based jeweller whose work is influenced by the Elizabethan era, and explores how research of historical material can inform contemporary practice. He has a BA in Gold & Silversmithing (Hons) and is a recipient of an Emerging Artist Mentorship in 2000 from Craft Victoria and an Ethel Oates Scholarship in 2001 from The Embroiderers Guild, Victoria. In 2008 he was awarded an Australian Arts Council - Skills and Arts Development London Studio to explore Elizabethan objects in situ. His work is represented in public and private collections around the country.

Stephen Gallagher, The Arcadian Hoard, 2009

Summer In The Hills with Andrea Inglis

Thursday 17 May 2012, 7.15 pm to 8.45 pm $30

Andrea Inglis will discuss the development of the colonial hill station phenomenon as it emerged in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century. In particular she will consider the hill station retreat at Mount Macedon.

ANDREA INGLIS has a background in teaching and is currently involved in educational research. She has an MA and PhD in social history. Her particular area of interest, and the subject of her theses, is recreation in the 19th century.

William Short, Mount Macedon 1894 – showing Braemar House in the background

Objects & The Theatre Of Memory with Valerie Krips

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Proust’s Marcel remembers when he dips his madeleine in linden tea, the woman at the sink remembers her mother as she washes an inherited cup: objects and memory go together.
It’s no surprise, then, that museums have long been called theatres of memory. In this talk objects, some from The Johnston Collection, will open into memories as we think about the role museums and their objects play in the interaction of past and present today.

VALERIE KRIPS retired from the English Department, University of Pittsburgh, in 2006. She now lives in Melbourne, where she is a Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and a co-editor of Arena Magazine. Her research interests lie in cultural studies, and in particular heritage and memory.

Roman painting, Second Pompeian Style, from the House of Julia Felix in Pompeii

The Mystery Of Love: Paintings and Poetry from India with Richard Runnels

Thursday 24 May 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

More than any other subject, love has inspired Indian poetry and painting. In their unique manner, poets and painters have given us personal renditions of that most elusive of human emotions.
Join Richard Runnels to look at stunning art works from the major Indian styles of the 16th through 19th centuries, and discover the words that so beautifully describe them.

RICHARD RUNNELS is the author of Indian Painters – British Masters Company Paintings from The Johnston Collection. He has lectured at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria and The Johnston Collection on topics as diverse as art, tea, architecture and food from India.

Krishna and Radha Dancing in the Moonlight, Kotah, 1840

Australia's Stained Glass: fine art, decorative art or just plain trade? with Bronwyn Hughes

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Australia’s stained glass had humble beginnings as a small additional strand to plumbing, glazing and paper-hanging firms. Stained glass grew with the colony to become a significant ornament to permanent settlement, in Gothic Revival churches, stately homes and grand public buildings. This talk will focus on a selection of intriguing examples to be seen in and around Melbourne, and what they reveal about the architecture, economics and culture of their time.

BRONWYN HUGHES is an art historian specialising in stained glass and consultant to heritage architects and organisations. Since completing her PhD on Anglo-Australian stained glass artist, William Montgomery, she has been compiling and editing the first encyclopaedia of Australia’s stained glass makers and researching stained glass war memorials.

Welcome window at ‘Cliveden’, now in the Cliveden Room at the Hilton on the Park Hotel,Wellington Parade, East Melbourne

STUDY DAY 2012

The Delicate Art Of Deception– Revealing Fakes and Forgeries

Saturday 13 October 2012

Fake? Forgery? Replica? Real?
What is a fake? How does it relate to a replica, an imitation, a version or a copy?

The Delicate Art of Deception Study Day will, through a series of illustrated cases and hands-on examples, discuss and illustrate objects that have perplexed, bothered and intrigued curators, historians, and collectors alike.

Speakers for the Study Day will include Eugene Barillo von Reisberg, William (Bill) Davis, Alison Inglis, John Payne, Martin Purslow, Robyn Sloggett and Susan Scollay.

For further information: + 61 3 9416 2515 | info@johnstoncollection.org

TOURS 2013

The Hidden Treasures of Venice and Rome with Sylvia Sagona

1-13 October 2013

A 13-day tour of lesser-known collections, palazzo and districts of Venice and Rome.

Pietro Longhi, The Ridotto in Venice, Italy, 1757