Symposium on polychrome sculpture

ICOM-CC Symposium on
Polychrome Sculpture: Tool Marks and Construction Techniques
Auditorium, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Sunday 24-25 October 2010

Capacity: 100 delegates

ICOM-CC Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decoration Working
Group and the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL) will host
a symposium on Polychrome Sculpture: Tool Marks and Construction
Techniques.

A number of guest scholars and conservators will be invited to
discuss current issues relating to the technical study of polychrome
sculptures. It is hoped that the ensuing discussion among experts
from various fields will lead to further attention and research in
this area.

The symposium will have as a focal point the study of tool marks on
sculptures relating to the construction process. Work benches were
often constructed as temporary aids to help the artisan during the
carving process. Traces of clamps used to hold the sculpture in
position during carving are often found on both the top and bottom
of wooden sculptures. Traces of these clamps and those of tools used
to carve the sculpture can be often hidden by subsequent decorative
layers or misinterpreted. These marks, however, can give clues to
the construction process and have, in the past, lead to the
identification of a workshop or even master carver himself. Focus on
the identification and classification of these tool marks, through a
meticulous study and documentation, may provide more insight into
the carving process of sculptures leading to tentative attributions
to certain studios or workshops. Furthermore, the symposium hopes to
highlight wider issues in the material-technical study of polychrome
sculptures through the discussion of a number of case studies. It is
hoped that this may contribute to a consensus in terminology that
will cross borders between the disciplines of art history,
conservation and science.

The symposium will commence in the afternoon of Sunday 24 October
2010 with a number of Keynote lectures and a welcome dinner, and
will continue with presentations and discussion sessions on Monday
25, 2010 October. The proceedings from the symposium will be
published in an electronic format on the Sculpture, Polychromy, and
Architectural Decoration Working Group home page of the ICOM-CC
website.

Registration and Costs:
Registration deadline and payment: 1 October 2010 to info<-at->sral<.>nl
(attention: ICOM-CC Sculpture 2010).

    ICOM-CC member:     Euro 75, -
    Non-ICOM-CC member: Euro 95, -
    Student:            Euro 55, -
    Dinner:             Euro 60, -

Please provide the following information on registration: delegate
name; institution; country and email address. Please indicate on
registration if you wish to attend the conference dinner. A
registration form can be downloaded as a word document from the
ICOM-CC website.

Programme:

Contributions for papers and posters relating to the topic are
welcome. Submissions should consist of an abstract (approximately
300 words) to be sent by 16 July 2010 to Kate Seymour
<k.seymour<-at->sral<.>nl>

Three keynote presentations of 45 minutes will be given on Sunday 24
October, followed by a discussion session. Presentations on the
Monday will be shorter and will be interspaced with further
discussion sessions. Accepted posters will be viewed during breaks
and authors will be given 5 minutes to present their project to the
main hall. Updates to the programme will be posted on the Sculpture,
Polychromy and Architectural Decoration Working Group home page on
the ICOM-CC website.

Confirmed Speakers:

    Arnold Truyen
    Head of Sculpture Conservation, Stichting Restauratie Atelier
    Limburg, Maastricht

        Traces on the sculptures of Jan van Steffenswert of work
        bench clamps and Construction techniques of nineteenth
        century sculptures: observations and discussions

    Emmanuelle Mercier
    Sculpture Conservator, KIK-IRPA, Brussels

        Observations of wooden supports and their use to augment
        questions of attribution: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century
        Mosan sculptures as a case study.

    Agnes Le Gac
    Assistant Professor and Sculpture Conservator, Universidade Nova
    de Lisboa

        Wooden sculptures by the lay bother Cypriano da Cruz
        (c.1645-1650-1716): a study of the carving tool marks to
        determine attribution.

    Corinne Van Hauwermeiren
    Sculpture Conservator, Museum of Liege

        The technical study of Romanesque and Gothic Sedes Sapientae
        from the Pyrenees-Orientales (France). A methodological
        approach/.' Peter Stiberc, Sculpture Conservator, Opificio
        delle Pietre Dure, Florence:

    Peter Stiberc
    Sculpture Conservator, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence

        Wood Crucifixes in Late 15th Century Florence: Innovations
        in the Construction Techniques

    Michael Rief
    Conservator, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen

        Going forensic. Art historical research of Northern late
        Gothic and Renaissance wooden sculptures based on the
        in-depth analysis of traces of the carving process and
        materials

    Regina Urbanek
    Lecturer and Sculpture Conservator, CICS Cologne

        Cologne Wooden Reliquary Busts between 1270 to 1360:
        technical developments in carving and construction.

    Marc Peez
    Sculpture Conservator, LVR Amt for Denkmalpflege Brauweiler in
    Rhineland

        Title to be decided

Organisers: The symposium is organized by the ICOM-CC Sculpture,
Polychromy, and Architectural Decoration Working Group Coordinator,
Kate Seymour and the Head of the SRAL Polychrome Sculpture
department, Arnold Truyen. The Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg
(SRAL) is one of the main conservation studio's in the Netherlands
and one of the only studios with a department dedicated to the
conservation of polychrome sculptures. SRAL works for public
collections within the province of Limburg as well as on a national
and international level and closely collaborates with the newly
established University of Amsterdam (UvA) five year programme in
Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage.


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