{"id":2402,"date":"2019-06-04T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:50:14","slug":"reve-romantic-europe-the-virtual-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"R\u00caVE: Romantic Europe the Virtual Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>The following post is by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/english\/research\/researchstudentprofiles\/alicerhodes\/\">Alice Rhodes<\/a> (University of York). If you haven&#8217;t heard of\u00a0R\u00caVE before, then read on to find out more about this exciting\u00a0project:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2404 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1.png 689w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1-150x108.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromanticism.org\/virtual-exhibition\/\">R\u00caVE (Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition)<\/a> is an interdisciplinary online project which showcases iconic European Romantic objects, places, and texts in a series of original blog posts from researchers and heritage professionals from across the continent. The virtual exhibition aims to assess and reassess Romanticism&#8217;s transnational perspectives and to provide an innovative resource for teaching, thinking and writing about Romanticism in new and productive ways. R\u00caVE is the core project of ERA (European Romanticisms in Association), a group which brings together scholarly associations and heritage organisations, including BARS, from around Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition currently contains 26 exhibits, and existing and upcoming posts feature a wealth of Romantic objects of all kinds, from furniture, clothing and jewellery, to publications and artworks, and even clouds, caves, trees and mountains. Some of the most recent highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromanticism.org\/fragment-of-a-cancelled-copper-plate-from-william-blakes-america\/\">Fragment of a cancelled copper plate from William Blake\u2019s America:\u00a0<\/a>Dr Robert Rix (University of Copenhagen) presents a one-of-a-kind fragment from one of the copper plates that Blake used to print his Illuminated Books. The plate is the only surviving fragment to demonstrate Blake\u2019s etching process and provides a unique insight into Blake\u2019s techniques.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromanticism.org\/shakespeares-chair-and-the-polish-princess\/\">Shakespeare\u2019s Chair and the Polish Princess:\u00a0<\/a>Professor Nicola Watson (Open University) traces the European journey of this unlikely piece of literary memorabilia from a kitchen in Stratford-upon-Avon to the garden of Polish princess, Izabela Dorota Czartoryska and its place in the first Polish museum.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromanticism.org\/sandor-petofis-wallet\/\">Pet\u020dfi\u2019s Wallet:\u00a0<\/a>Zsuzsanna Zeke (Pet\u0151fi Literary Museum, Budapest) introduces a wallet given to the poet S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fiby his wife J\u00falia Szendrey and explores the keepsake\u2019s place in Pet\u0151fi\u2019s transformation into the Hungarian national poet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromanticism.org\/every-house-of-the-ant-hill-on-the-plain-richard-horwoods-london\/\">Every House of the Ant-Hill on the Plain: Richard Horwood\u2019s London:<\/a>Dr Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow) explores Romantic London via Richard Horwood\u2019s \u201cNEVER BEFORE ATTEMPTED\u201d plan of the city, engraved in painstaking detail over a period of nine years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above blog posts, along with a whole host of other exhibits exploring the material (and sometimes immaterial) objects which define Romantic Europe can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromanticism.org\/virtual-exhibition\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The associated AHRC-funded project Dreaming Romantic Europe (DREAM) led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/nw225\">Professor Nicola J. Watson (Open University)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc.ox.ac.uk\/person\/3323\">Professor Catriona Seth (All Souls, Oxford)<\/a> launched in autumn 2018 and is due to run until June 2020. Its core endeavour is to continue to build R\u00caVE to 100+ exhibits through running three major workshops and associated satellite events. More generally, it is designed to build an extensive pan-European network of scholars, scholarly associations, and museums. Workshop 1 \u2018Consuming Romanticism\u2019 was held November 9-10, 2018, Maison de Chateaubriand, La Vall\u00e9e-aux-Loups, Paris. The Maison de Chateaubriand was marking the 250th anniversary of Chateaubriand\u2019s birth, staging events and exhibitions including one devoted to Napoleon, \u2018L\u2019Empire en Bo\u00eete\u2019, so ERA members were delighted to be the guests of the museum as part of these celebrations. 16 participants were asked to address a core question &#8211; \u2018How did contemporaries construct themselves through objects (broadly conceived) as consumers of Romanticism?\u2019 &#8211; through producing an exhibit for R\u00caVE, consisting of an image plus a micro-essay of no more than 1000 words drawn from original research. They were also asked to reflect upon the experience of rethinking Romanticisms in terms of the microhistories of Romantic objects, addressing questions such as: What has R\u00caVE so far revealed about previous and potential ways of thinking about Romanticism as a pan-European phenomenon? What has working with the R\u00caVE format taught us so far? How might we best develop R\u00caVEas a virtual museum? Workshop 2 is planned for October 2019 in Ravenna at the Museo Byron under the rubric \u2018Romantic Authorship\u2019, and Workshop 3 \u2018Romantic Media\u2019 is scheduled for June 2020 in association with the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2403\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2403\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2403 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-1-300x297.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-1-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-1.png 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maison de Chateaubriand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are also delighted to be bringing DREAM and R\u00caVE to this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/conference\/fac-arts\/english\/romantic-studies\/index.aspx\">BARS conference<\/a>, where we\u2019ll be presenting two panels: <em>Dreaming Romantic Europe: facts and their fantasies,\u00a0<\/em>which will bring together 9 senior scholars of Romanticism to present their own innovative research in the form of R\u00caVE exhibits and a partnered ECR workshop which will use R\u00caVE\u2019s approach of object microhistories to investigate a further 5 Romantic objects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019d like to know more, find us at the BARS 16th International Conference, \u2018Romantic Facts and Fantasies\u2019, in Nottingham, follow ERA on twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/euromanticism\">@euromanticism<\/a> and view the exhibition <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromanticism.org\/virtual-exhibition\/\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following post is by Alice Rhodes (University of York). If you haven&#8217;t heard of\u00a0R\u00caVE before, then read on to find out more about this exciting\u00a0project: R\u00caVE (Romantic Europe: The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2402\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}