CONFERENCE | The Fabrication of the Antique: Ancient Sculptures Between Collections and Museum Institutions, 16th-19th Centuries

International conference
Grand Salon – Villa Medici

PROGRAM OF DAYTIME CONFERENCES

9:30 AM Welcome
      Sam Stourdzé, Academy of France in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome

9:40 AM Introduction by the organizers        

RETHINKING THE ANTIQUE IN THE RENAISSANCE

Moderated by: Claudia Valeri, Vatican Museums

10:00 AM The Sack of Rome (1527): A Turning Point in the History of Collecting
      Kathleen Christian, Humboldt University, Berlin

10:30 AM Villa Medici 1989-2010: A Review
      Carlo Gasparri, University of Naples Federico II, Naples

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM Egyptian Statues Exhibited in Rome, Represented in France: A Case Study
      Cristina Ruggero, Antiquitatum Thesaurus, BBAW, Berlin

12:00 PM Discussion (45 minutes)

THE ANTIQUES IN COLLECTIONS

 Moderated by: Cécile Giroire, Louvre Museum

2:30 PM Antiquities in the Garden: Reference Models and Aspects of Originality in the Display of the Savonanzi Collection in Trastevere (17th Century)
      Astrid Capoferro, Swedish Institute in Rome, Rome (30 minutes)

3:00 PM ‘No Nation under Heaven so Nearly Resembles the Ancient Greeks and Romans than We’: Staging the Antique in British Interiors, 1720-1770
      Adriano Aymonino, University of Buckingham, Buckingham

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM An Antique in Color: Collection, Exhibition, Restoration, and Copying of Ancient Wall Paintings and Mosaics in Roman Collections in the 17th Century
Delphine Burlot, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

4:30 PM A Museum of Marbles: The Political Materiality of the Louvre during the Era of Revolutions
Adrián Almoguera, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

5:00 PM Discussion

PROGRAM OF DAYTIME CONFERENCES IN PARIS

Place: Musée du Louvre, Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon

9:30 AM Welcome
Cécile Giroire, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Françoise Mardrus, Musée du Louvre, Paris

9:40 AM Introduction by the Organizers

RESTORING ANTIQUITIES BETWEEN COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS

Chair: François Queyrel, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

10:00 AM L’arte di ‘acconciare’ l’antico: Considerations on Some Restoration Practices in the 16th Century
Barbara Furlotti, Census, Berlin / Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

10:30 AM On a Ridge: The Restoration of the Gabii Finds in 1792-1793
Martin Szewczyk, Musée du Louvre, Paris

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM Munich, Stuttgart: From Courtly to Public Museum Collecting, Restoration and Presentation of Ancient Sculpture
Astrid Fendt, Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart Berlin

12:00 PM Discussion

ANCIENT SCULPTURE IN A MUSEUM CONTEXT

Chair: Françoise Mardrus, Musée du Louvre, Paris

2:00 PM André Félibien and the Hall of Antiques at the Louvre
Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Musée du Louvre, Paris

2:30 PM Visconti between Rome and Paris: Scenography and Restorations
Chiara Piva, Sapienza Università di Roma

3:00 PM Break

3:30 PM Exhibiting Ancient Reliefs in 18th-Century Museums
Daniela Gallo, Université de Lorraine, Nancy

4:00 PM Restorations in the First Louvre Museum
Ludovic Laugier, Musée du Louvre, Paris

4:30 PM Discussion

Foto allestimento Louvre: Copyright Fondazione Torlonia PH Agostino Osio