Conference on illuminated manuscripts

"Inside Illuminations: Art Technical Research and the Illuminated
    Manuscript"
Brussels, KIK-IRPA
5 June 2014

Program and Registration

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Researching the components and technology of Western Manuscript
Illuminations in the laboratory has become more widespread during
the last decade. The great diversity of techniques, materials and
tools used by illuminators to illustrate and decorate texts has
become a challenging topic for scholars of manuscripts and medieval
painting. Art technical research on illuminated manuscripts provides
insights into provenance, workshop practice and the
interrelationships between painting on parchment and painting on
panel, wall and cloth. For conservators of manuscripts, moreover,
collaboration with laboratories of scientific imaging and
non-destructive material testing has become an important factor in
making decisions about treatments and interventions. The conference
Inside Illuminations is intended to advance interdisciplinary
research on technical art history and the medieval illuminated
manuscript by providing a forum for scholars working on specific
manuscripts, on illuminators' practice and on recently developed
research tools and databases.

The conference is organized by the Royal Institute for Cultural
Heritage (Brussels), Illuminare (Centre for the Study of Medieval
Art, KU Leuven) and UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve).

Program

Registration, 5 June, 8.30
KIK-IRPA, Jubelpark 1
1000 Brussels

    "Inside the Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold: The Parisian
    Campaign of Illumination. Part I: The Artists"
        Stella Panayotova
        Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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    "The Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold. Part II: The Materials"
       Paola Ricciardi
       Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

    "Macro-XRF Scanning of Illuminations: An improved method for
    non-invasive art technical analysis of Illuminated Manuscripts"
        Nancy Turner
        J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles

    "Inside an early 14th century Franciscan Antiphonary.
    Documentation and Analyses of a Ghent Choir book"
        Lieve Watteeuw
        Illuminare
        KU Leuven

        Marina Van Bos
        KIK-IRPA

    "The Dream of Nebukadnezar. Painting technique of the Ottonian
    Reichenau scriptorium"
       Robert Fuchs and Doris Oltrogge
       Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences

    "Some technical notes on the Fleur des histoires (Brussels, KBR,
    ms. 9231-9232) by the Mansel Master, the Therouanne Master and
    Simon Marmion"
         Anne Dubois
         UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve

    "Colour in medieval Portuguese manuscripts: between beauty and
    meaning"
       Maria Joao Melo and Adelaide Miranda
       Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa

    "Monitoring Pigment Stability in the Illuminated 'Treasures' of
    the British Library"
        Paul Garside, Christina Duffy and M. Beltran de Guevara
        London, British Library

    "Multidisciplinary study of medieval illuminations of the
    Marcade Collection (Treasury of Saint-Andre Cathedral of
    Bordeaux, France)"
        Aurelie Mounier
        CNRS - Universite Bordeaux 3

Posters

    "Issues around two Books of Hours, IL 15 and IL 19 (Lisbon,
    Bibliotheca National)"
       Ana Lemos and Rita Arujo
       Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    "Analysis of pigments of two manuscripts attributed to the
    Master of Gijsbrecht van Brederode (Utrecht, ca. 1450-1470)"
    Antonia Zaratin, Cecile Oger and Helena Calvo del Castillo
    Universite de Liege

    "Monitoring illuminations and gilding characteristics with the
    RICH mini-dome. The Bible of Conrad von Vechta (Bohemia, 1402,
    Antwerp, MPM 15.1 and 15.2)"
        Lieve Watteeuw, Bruno Vandermeulen, Jan Van der Stock,
        Frederick Truyen, Marc Proesmans and Luc Van Gool
        RICH Project, Faculty of Arts, Illuminare, KU Leuven and
        ESAT, KU Leuven

On Friday morning 6 June 2014, there will be an optional visit for
maximum 15 participants to the Manuscript Department of the Royal
Library of Belgium or to the Leuven University Libraries.

Organisation board:

    Marina Van Bos
    KIK-IRPA

    Lieve Watteeuw
    Illuminare, KU Leuven

    Anne Dubois
    UCL

Partners: KBR, KU Leuven (University Library and Maurits Sabbe
Library) and UCL (INCAL)

The Proceedings of the conference will be published in the Series
Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, Illuminare, Research Centre for
Medieval Arts, Peeters Publishers, Paris - Leuven - Warlpole.

Info:

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