Colors and pigments in Renaissance art in Europe

Colloquium
Thursday, November 18 to Saturday, November 20, 2021
Grand Salon, Villa Médicis
Free admission

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This symposium brings to a close the multi-year Pictor research program, which brings together a team of French, Swiss, Italian, Spanish and Belgian researchers to take a comparative approach to the profession of painter in 16th-century Europe.

After several study days devoted to the population of painters, regulations, training, knowledge, methods and techniques, this meeting will focus on the materials and pigments used in painting, but also in other figurative arts (tapestries, stained glass).

The study of the materiality of works of art is a field that has been booming in recent years, opening up new perspectives thanks to collaboration between historians, scientists and restorers. The symposium will provide an opportunity to compare data from scientific analyses with that from the study of sources (archives, recipe books and treatises).

Program :

Thursday, November 18 2021

9:15 am: Welcome
Francesca Alberti
Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis
Laura Pettinaroli
École Française de Rome

9:30 a.m.: Introduction
Session moderator: Julien Lugand
Université de Perpignan-Via Domitia

9.45am: Philippe Lorentz
Sorbonne-Université, EPHE-PSL
“Of a more beautiful yellow and more like gold”:
orpiment in the Issenheim polyptych by
Grünewald

10:15am: Michel Menu
ITMO University, St Petersburg
Analyzing the color of the Issenheim Altarpiece

10:45 a.m.: break

11:45: Romain Thomas
Université Paris-Nanterre
Gold, a material neglected by Renaissance painters
? Initial thoughts on
the case of some Dutch and German artists and creative centers

12:15pm: discussion

← Visit
Trinité-des-Monts church
(reserved for speakers)

Chairman: Michel Hochmann
École pratique des Hautes Études, PSL

3:30 pm: Doris Oltrogge
Cologne Institute of Conservation Science
Pigments in texts – pigments in
the workshop: a complex story

4:00 pm: Jesús Criado Mainar and Rebeca Carretero Calvo
Universidad de Zaragoza
Colores y pigmentos en la pintura zaragozana
del siglo XVI. Una aproximacion a partir del
estudio de la documentacion contractual.
1500-1620.

4:30 pm: Concetta Pennuto
University of Tours
Treating syphilis? Jean Fernel and the painter who
painted with cinnabar

5:00 pm: break

17h15: Audrey Nassieu Maupas
École pratique des Hautes Études, PSL
Garance, brazil, kermes, cochineal: the question
of red in textile dyeing in Paris in the
16th century

17h45: Guy-Michel Leproux
École pratique des Hautes Études, PSL
La conception des verres colorés des vitraux
de la Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes : un travail
de collaboration ?

6:15 pm: discussion

Friday, November 19, 2021

French School of Rome

Chairman: Francesca Alberti
Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis

9h45: Anne Servais
Université Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne
“Un colore bellissimo rosso di verzino”,
Brazilian lacquers in the palette of Renaissance European painters

10h15: Mauro Salis
Università di Cagliari
Alcune note su pigmenti e leganti utilizzati nei
polittici di Sardegna nella prima età moderna

10:45 a.m.: break

11:15 a.m.: Philippe Walter
Sorbonne Université
Understanding painting practices
combining chemical imaging on artwork and on
samples

11:45: Angela Cerasuolo
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
“Avvertimenti de’ quali non fa bisogno
ragionare”: pigmenti e mescolanze nelle fonti
letterarie del XVI secolo, tra ricettari e teoria
dell’arte

12:15pm: discussion

Chair: Diane Bodart
Columbia University

2:30 pm: Claudio Seccaroni
ENEA, Roma
Tradizione e innovazione sulle tavolozze
cinquecentesche. Alcuni esempi

3:00 pm: Raffaella Morselli
Università di Teramo
Da Armenini a Garzoni: colori e pigmenti in due
trattati di fine Cinquecento

3:30 pm: break

4:00 pm: Michel Hochmann
École pratique des Hautes Études, PSL
Some thoughts on the pigments
mentioned in Italian documents
in the 16th century

4:30 pm: Stefano Volpin
Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
and Giulio Bono, restorer
Sui dipinti rinascimentali veneziani:
colori, alterazioni e restauri

5:00 pm: discussion

Saturday, November 20, 2021

morning
← Visit
Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti
(reserved for speakers)

afternoon
← Visit
Restoration of the Loggia
of Galatea at the Villa Farnesina
accompanied by
Virginia Lapenta
Villa Farnesina, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
(reserved for speakers)

➝ To reserve your seats at the École française de Rome, click here.

Information :

Patrizia Celli – Département d’histoire de l’art
Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis
[email protected]

PASSSANITAIRE
In accordance with the provisions of the decree of July 23, 2021, in order to gain access to the study day, we kindly ask participants to present their valid health pass, accompanied by proof of identity.