International Conference organized by "The Court Studies Forum", with the Centro studi of the Venaria. The conference will be interdisciplinary, with historians, art historians, historians of literature and music. For further information please contact Marcello.Fantoni chez ksuflorence.net

Speakers include :
John Christianson, The Infrastructure of the Royal Hunt
Jeroen Duindam, Between relaxation and instrumentality : the royal hunt at early modern European and Asian courts
Suzanne J. Walker, The culture of hunting in early modern Europe
Andrea Spiriti, L’evoluzione del casino di caccia e dell’iconografia venatoria nello Stato di Milano in età spagnola e austriaca
Laura Facchin, Giovanni Battista Curlando : un pittore sabaudo e il ciclo delle cacce bavaresi di Schleissheim (1689)
Gérard Sabatier, Royal Hunts in France
Andrea Merlotti, The Hunts of the Savoy
Stefano Lorenzetti, Music and Hunting in Early Modern Europe
José Martinez Millan, Hunts and the Spanish court
Philip Mansel, Royal Hunts in an age of Revolutions : from Louis XVI to Napoleon III