Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

April 8, 2026
Oxford, UK

Panel Title:

Eighteenth-Century Italian Art and Artists in Global Contexts

Panel Chairs: 

Arlene Leis, Independent Scholar

Miriam Al Jamil, Independent Scholar

Papers:

Hardeep Singh Dhindsa, Birmingham Museums Trust “Nero Asiaticus’: Navigating Anglo-Indian Politics through the Grand Tour of Sir Robert Clive”

Elisa Cazzato, University of Naples Federico II “Ephemeral Itineraries: Theatre Decorators and the Mobility of Artistic Practices in Eighteenth-Century Europe”

Agnieszka Anna Ficek, Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas “The Global Lives of Porcelain: Maria Amalia of Saxony and the Circulation of Artistic Knowledge between Naples, Dresden and China”

Maja Jackson, Independent Scholar “Art, Science, and Spectacle: Pietro Longhi’s Exotic Animals in Eighteenth- Century Venice”