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Les Chantiers des Carrache
12.10 - 19.10.2023
Les Chantiers des Carrache symposium takes place over two days, at Villa Medici and the École française de Rome.
The symposium Les Chantiers des Carrache is the first public meeting organized by the steering committee of the research project “ Carracci ConservArt: visualizing and understanding the Galerie des Carrache through its critical fortune, conservation and restoration. XVIIth-XXIst centuries “.
The Carracci Gallery in the Palazzo Farnese was created between 1597 and 1608 by the brothers Annibal and Augustin Carracci, representatives of the new classicism of the 16th century. Frescoes depicting characters from Ovid’s Metamorphoses decorate this magnificent 20-metre vault which, between optical games and perspectives, spans sculpture, painting and architecture in a triumph of light, shapes and colors that has amazed and fascinated observers for over 400 years.
Launched in 2022, in partnership with several institutions, the Carracci ConservArt research project aims to analyze and publish unpublished data from the restoration of the Galerie dei Carracci in the Palazzo Farnese, which took place in 2015; crossing technical and scientific results with historical-critical research carried out on the work, and complementing them with a study of the graffiti found in the Galerie during this restoration. These grafitti will be the subject of a colloquium open to the public in April 2023, at Villa Medici.
The research workshop on November 8, closed to the public, at the Académie de France – Villa Médicis is intended to bring together all the members and research groups involved in the Carracci ConservArt project.
This meeting will be followed by a study day open to the public on November 9, at the École française de Rome. Dedicated to the Chantiers des Carrache, this day will provide an opportunity to present the studies and research devoted to the question of Carracci’s technique of execution, in the major building sites outside Rome.
Steering Committee
- Alessandra Acconci: Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia, Belle Arti, Paesaggio di Roma
- Francesca Alberti: Academy of France in Rome – Villa Medici
- Rachel George: French School of Rome
- Michel Hochmann: École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
Scientific advisors
- Michela Cardinali
- Giorgio Capriotti
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 PROGRAMME - École française de Rome
I. EXECUTION TECHNIQUES
9h30-9h45 – ITA
Presentation of the Carracci ConservArt project
Prof.ssa Brigitte Marin – Director of the École française de Rome
9h45-10h05 – ITA
“Porsi in sull’opera a veder figura per figura. Cantieri bolognesi prima e dopo Annibale a Roma
Raffaella Morselli, Sapienza – Università di Roma
10h10-10h30 – ITA
I Carracci in cantiere: alcuni aspetti tecnici dei dipinti murali di palazzo Fava a Bologna
Paola Ilaria Mariotti, Cristiana Todaro, Sara Penoni, Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze
10:30am-10:50am – ITA
La tecnica pittorica dei Carracci nel fregio di Palazzo Magnani: materiali, procedure, suddivisione del lavoro
Samuele Vitali, Kunsthistorisches Institut di Firenze
10h50-11h10 – ITA
Il Camerino Farnese: note tecniche attraverso il confronto delle immagini di archivio
Giorgio Capriotti, Studio Capriotti
11:30am-11:50am – ITA
Dati materiali emersi nel restauro del cartone di Urbino per la volta della Galleria Farnese
Carla Bertorello, Giovanna Martellotti, CBC Conservazione e Restauro
11h50-12h10 – ITA
La cappella Cerasi e Annibale Carracci
Maria Grazia Bernardini, storica dell’arte
12h10-13h00 – FR
From Rome to Barcelona and Madrid: data on the technique and vicissitudes of the Herrera Chapel frescoes
Mireia Mestre Campà, Centre de Restauració de Béns Mobles de Catalunya
Andrés Úbeda de Los Cobos, Museo Nacional del Prado de Madrid
II. ANCILLARY STUDIES
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm – FR
Annibal Carracci and the pastel
Catherine Loisel, former curator, Musée du Louvre
3:00-3:20 pm – ITA
Tecnica e produzione dei pastelli: studio delle fonti e produzione di pastelli artigianali
Martina Massarelli, Giulia Procopio, Carla Giovannone, Istituto Centrale per il Restauro
15h20-15h40 – ITA
Luca Retti nel teatro Farnese: lo stucco a Parma nei primi decenni del Seicento tra tecnica da muro ed apparati effimeri
Elena Russo, Elena Zichichi, Carla Giovannone, Istituto Centrale per il Restauro
15h40-16h00 – ITA
Osservazioni sulle tecniche di esecuzione degli affreschi della Loggia di Amore e Psiche della Farnesina
Luisa Barucci, restorer, Studio Barucci
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – ITA
Presentation of the digital archive Carracci ConservArt
Alessandra Acconci, Paolo Scarpitti, Soprintendenza di Roma, società VisivaLab
Partners
The Carracci ConservArt project brings together the French Academy in Rome, the French Embassy in Italy, theÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études – Savoirs et pratiques du Moyen-Âge à l’Époque Contemporaine, the Fondazione Centro Conservazione e Restauro La Venaria Reale, the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia, Belle Arti, Paesaggio di Roma. This is a five-year project of the École française de Rome.
Practical information
- Wednesday, November 8: Villa Médicis, Salle cinéma Michel Piccoli
→ Reserved for symposium speakers - Thursday, November 9: École française de Rome – Piazza Navona, 62, Conference Room
→ Free, open to the public subject to availability
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