Seminar

The Antique Factory

antique sculptures in museum collections and institutions 16th-19th centuries

22.10.2024

International seminar
Grand Salon – Villa Medici
9:30am-5pm

Daytime conference program

  • 9:30 a.m. Welcome

Sam Stourdzé, French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome

  • 9:40 Introduction by the organizers

RETHINKING ANTIQUITY IN THE RENAISSANCE

Moderator: Claudia Valeri, Musei Vaticani

  • 10h The Sack of Rome (1527): a Turning Point in the History of Collecting

Kathleen Christian, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

  • 10h30 Villa Médicis 1989-2010: an assessment

Carlo Gasparri, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples

  • 11 a.m. break
  • 11h30 Statue egizie esposte a Roma, rappresentate in Francia: un caso di studio

Cristina Ruggero, Antiquitatum Thesaurus, BBAW, Berlin

  • 12h Discussion (45′)
  • 12:45 Lunch

ANTIQUES IN COLLECTIONS

Moderator: Cécile Giroire, Musée du Louvre

  • 14h30 Antichità in giardino: modelli di riferimento e aspetti di originalità nell’allestimento della collezione Savonanzi in Trastevere (XVII secolo)

Astrid Capoferro, Swedish Institute in Rome, Rome (30′)

  • 15h 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
  • 16h00 Antiquity in color: collecting, exhibiting, restoring and copying antique wall paintings and mosaics in 17th-century Roman collections

Delphine Burlot, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

  • 4:30 pm A museum of marbles: the political materiality of the Louvre in the age of revolutions

Adrián Almoguera, Complutense University, Madrid

  • 5:00 pm Discussion
  • DAYTIME CONFERENCE PROGRAM IN PARIS

    Location: Musée du Louvre, Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon

    • 09:30 Welcome

    Cécile Giroire, Musée du Louvre, Paris
    Françoise Mardrus, Musée du Louvre, Paris

    • 09:40 Introduction by the organizers

    RESTORING ANTIQUES BETWEEN COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS

    Moderated by François Queyrel, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

    • 10h00 L’arte di ‘acconciare’ l’antico: considerazioni su alcune pratiche di restauro nel Cinquecento

    Barbara Furlotti, Census, Berlin / Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma

    • 10h30 On a ridgeline. Restoring finds de Gabies in 1792-1793

    Martin Szewczyk, Musée du Louvre, Paris

    • 11:00 a.m. Break
    • 11h30 Munich, Stuttgart: From courtly to public museum collecting, restoration and presentation of ancient sculpture

    Astrid Fendt, Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart Berlin

    • 12:00 Discussion

    ANTIQUE SCULPTURE IN A MUSEUM CONTEXT

    Moderated by Françoise Mardrus, Musée du Louvre, Paris

    • 14h00 André Félibien and the Louvre’s Salle des Antiques

    Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Musée du Louvre, Paris

    • 14:30 Visconti between Rome and Paris: scenography and restorations

    Chiara Piva, Sapienza Università di Roma

    • 3:00 pm Break
    • 15h30 Exhibiting antique reliefs in 18th-century museums

    Daniela Gallo, University of Lorraine, Nancy

    • 16h00 Restorations at the first Louvre Museum

    Ludovic Laugier, Musée du Louvre, Paris

    • 4:30 pm Discussion

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