Final Programme

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FINAL PROGRAMME

9^th May 2019 - Thursday

09:00 – 09:30: Registration

09:45 – 10:15: Opening & Welcome

João Coroado - President of Tomar Polytechnic Institute (IPT)

Stephanie de Roemer - ICOM-CC Sculpture, Polychromy and Architectural Decorations Working Group (SPAD) Group Coordinator

 

10:15 – 12:15: Session I

Chair: Jack Soultanian - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.

• Why don’t they chat anymore? Polychrome wooden sculptures and lighting: technical and emotional instances

   Francesca Tonini, Riccardo Balzarotti - Ca' Foscari University in Venice - Urbino University, Italy

• Preparation layers: a historical overview of the materials and techniques used to produce an “invisible” layer with impact on the final appearance of polychrome sculptures

   Isabel Pombo Cardoso - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• The fin-de-siècle interiors and the irruption of light

   Wivine Wailliez - Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, IRPA-KIK, Brussels, Belgium

• Sensorial world – light, sparkles and reflex

   Elsa Murta - Laboratório José de Figueiredo, Lisbon, Portugal

 

12:30 – 13:45: Lunch

13:45 – 14:30: Technical visits

Visits to the Conservation and Restoration Laboratories: painting, sculpture, paper, ceramics and gilded wood.

 

14:30 – 16:30: Session II

Chair: Emmanuelle Mercier - Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, IRPA-KIK, Brussels, Belgium

• Gilded altarpieces – chemistry and faith

   Ana Bidarra, João Coroado, Fernando Rocha - Techn&Art - IPT; Geobiotec - UA; Cinábrio - Conservação e Restauro

• Rediscovering Mackintosh’s Oak Room: 1907-08 - a symphony of light and shade

   Alison Brown - Glasgow Museums, Scotland

• Under UV light: games of metamerism. An investigation on luminescent materials and the technique of black-light artists

   Serena Francone - Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, Italy

• The lost lustre of medieval polychromy: What does it mean for our perception, and how do we treat it?

   Kaja Kollandsrud - Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Sweden

 

16:30 – 17:30: Coffee break and Poster session

17:30 – 18:30: Session III

Chair: Ricardo Triães - Techn&Art – Tomar Polytechnic Institute, Portugal

• Light and its effects as a force for change in altarpiece building systems

   Fanny Unikel Santoncini - Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía (ENCRyM-INAH), Mexico

• Material and Light-reflection in the Damascus Room Dresden

   Jessica Hensel - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Conference dinner - 9^th May 2019 – Thursday

Venue: Taverna Antiqua (http://tavernaantiqua.com/)

Time: 20:15

Cost: 20,00 €

Address: Praça da República, 23-25, 2300-550 Tomar

Dinner registration required

 

10^th May 2019 - Friday

09:00 – 10:30: Session IV

Chair: Francesca Tonini - Ca' Foscari University in Venice - Urbino University, Italy

• Highlights, decorations and contouring. Gildings on alabaster illustrated by the exceptional altarpiece of Boussu

   Judy De Roy - Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, IRPA-KIK, Brussels, Belgium

• Infra-mince and light as a plastic resource in Contemporary Installation Art

   Juan Manuel Torrado - Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

• Tactile Light: The preservation and exhibition of light-based work by So-Cal artists

   Elizabeth Homberger, Abigail Duckor, Laura Maccarell - Detroit Institute of Arts, U.S.A.

 

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break and Poster session

11:00 – 12:30: Session V

Chair: Ana Bidarra - Techn&Art - IPT; Geobiotec – UA; Cinábrio – Conservação e Restauro, Portugal

• Light as a staging instrument in churches in the early 16^th Century in the Northern part of the Low-Countries

   Aleth Lorne, Bertil van Os - Independent conservator, The Netherlands

• To Replace or restore the worn parts? Right decision making for the conservation of light Installations

   Konstantinos D. Stoupathis - Melmofake Museum, Athens, Greece

• From printmaking to installation: light as a visual mediator

   Áurea Muñoz del Amo - Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

 

12:30 – 13:45: Lunch

13:45 – 14:30: Technical visits

Visits to the Conservation and Restoration Laboratories: painting, sculpture, paper, ceramics and gilded wood.

 

14:30 – 16:00: Session VI

Chair: Kaja Kollandsrud - Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Sweden

• Lux and Lumen, transcendence and theatricality - two coatings for one Rococo altarpiece by André Soares

   Agnès Le Gac, Eduardo Pires de Oliveira - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• Plastic Fantastic: Conserving Andreas’ Trust

   Gerri Strickler - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.

• Light as sculptured shapes and a disturbing degradation factor in contemporary medals

   Ana Sofia Neves, Ana Bailão - Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

 

16:00 – 16:30: Coffee break and Poster session

17:30 – 18:30: Session VII

Chair: Stephanie de Roemer - ICOM-CC - SPAD Group Coordinator / Glasgow Museums, Scotland

• Polychromy and light: new approaches to the analysis of the pictorial remains of the Monastery of San Salvador de Oña (Burgos)

   Ana Maria Cuesta Sánchez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

• Light and Shadow: from the design to the preservation of Mary Vieira’s artwork at Belo Horizonte

   Pedro Augusto Vieira Santos - School of Architecture, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Conserving Holograms for Museum Exhibition

   Abigail Duckor, James Graham - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, U.S.A.

 

POSTER SESSION

• The Museum of King Jan III`s Palace at Wilanów – does the revitalization of the palace reflect the Baroque idea of light? Polychrome conservation and exhibition issues

   Katarzyna Onisk - Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów, Poland

• Shedding light on Medieval Art

   Bogna Skwara - Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Warsaw, Poland

• How to discern between illusion and reality? The identification of depicted light effects on Netherlandish sculptures from the early 16th century

   Aleth Lorne, Bertil van Os - Independent conservator, The Netherlands

• Light versus tangible and intangible heritage preservation – use of modern methods in monitoring and evaluation of colour changes in art objects

   Agnieszka Pawlak, Sylwia Svorová Pawelkowicz - Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów, Poland

• Is it the same light? Luso-oriental polychrome sculptures

   Daniel Vega, Isabel Pombo Cardoso - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• How the study of the polychromy sheds fresh light on a previously proposed conservation treatment. Case-study of the statuary of the western porch of the cathedral of Our Lady of Tournai (Belgium)

   Camille De Clercq - Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, IRPA-KIK, Brussels, Belgium

• Shedding light on the polychromy of the sculptures of Master Pero’s workshop: the original polychromy and possible forms of its divulgation

   Sara Sá, Isabel Pombo Cardoso - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

• The azulejos of San Francisco church, Leiria, Portugal: how to preserve their interpretation

   Ricardo Triães et al. - Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal

• 3D models of cultural heritage: the problem of light during the outdoor photogrammetric acquisition

   Frederico Henriques, Ana Bailão - CITAR/UCP; HERCULES/UÉ; CIEBA/FBAUL

• Invisible X-ray radiation to bring to light the inner armature of the oversized Portuguese Soldier plaster model (MML00604)

   Agnès Le Gac - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• Enlightening the darkness: how to turn European shadows into Goan light

   Vanessa Antunes et al. - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; ARTIS-IHA, FLUL; HERCULES; Lab. José de Figueiredo; Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

• Conserving a work made by light and rhythm

   Maria Cristina Lanza, Maria Elisabetta Prunas, Paola Iazurlo - Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro, Rome, Italy

• How the Three Holy Kings lost their guiding light

   Heike Bommes - KOLUMBA - Art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany

• Shine of a new light for monitoring processes: multispectral imaging solutions in a set of sculptures from Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte

   Jani dos Santos et al. - Signinum, Gestão do Património Cultural, Portugal

• The problem of polychromy in Achaemenian architecture (Persepolis, Pasargadea and Naqsh-e Rustam): continuation of vernacular tradition or an innovation

   Sahar Ahmadinezhad - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

• Recovering the light of the divine. The Sanctuary of the Madre de Deus Convent

   Alexandre Pais et al. - Universidade Católica, Porto, Portugal

 

11^th May 2019 - Saturday - Social programme

Tomar visits

9:30 Convent of Christ

Venue: Praça da República (by the central statue; we will then walk to the Convent)

Cost: free

(http://www.conventocristo.gov.pt/en/)

Registration required

15:00 Contemporary Art Nucleus (donation of José- Augusto França)

Venue: Praça da República (by the central statue; we will then walk to the Museum)

Cost: free

(https://guiastecnicos.turismodeportugal.pt/en/contemporary/view/Museu-Municipal-de-Tomar-Nucleo-de-Arte-Contemporanea-Doacao-de-Jose-Augusto-Franca)

Registration required

 

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