AHNCA @ 30: Past, Present, and Future

Please join us on Tuesday, October 1 at 7PM EDT for the Virtual Salon “AHNCA @ 30: Past, Present, and Future.” 

This Virtual Salon is organized by Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and is part of a series of online events cosponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. 

As AHNCA celebrates its 30th anniversary, we invite you to join Patricia Mainardi, its founder, and Roberto C. Ferrari, her former student who served on the AHNCA board, for a conversation about the history of the organization and how the study of nineteenth-century art has evolved and continues to do so today. There will also be a few surprise guests and time for Q&A as well.   

Patricia Mainardi is professor emerita of art history at the doctoral program in art history of the City University of New York. A specialist in European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, her books include Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867; The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic; Husbands, Wives and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France; and Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture, in addition to numerous articles, catalogues, and reviews. She has received numerous fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art (France), and the Yale Center for British Art. She is Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques of France and is one of only two art historians who received both the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award and its Charles Rufus Morey Award for the most distinguished book of the year, Art and Politics of the Second Empire.

Roberto C. Ferrari is the Curator of Art Properties at Columbia University Libraries, where he oversees the university’s permanent collection. He received his PhD in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, focusing on nineteenth-century British art. Ferrari will guest co-curate with Sophie Lynford a major exhibition on Simeon Solomon at Delaware Art Museum in 2027. He most recently curated the exhibition Time and Face: Daguerreotypes to Digital Prints (Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2021–22). Ferrari has taught courses in art history and curatorial practice at Columbia, Drew University, and other institutions. He has published extensively and given numerous presentations on the Jewish artists Rebecca and Simeon Solomon, the Black model Fanny Eaton, the neoclassical sculptor John Gibson, and the US-born painter Florine Stettheimer.

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This event is free and open to the public but registration is required at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsf-qqqjMjG9TyYMWqTFRT-KfUw9zI9iTA