FRENCH BRONZES: HISTORY, MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES OF BRONZE SCULPTURE IN FRANCE (16TH - 18TH C.)
Call for Papers : First announcement
SYMPOSIUM
FRENCH BRONZES: HISTORY, MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES OF BRONZE SCULPTURE IN FRANCE (16TH - 18TH C.)
VENUE: Musée du Louvre and Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des
Musées de France (C2RMF), Paris, France
DATE: June 9-12, 2012
SCOPE
A three-day international symposium will be held at the Musée du Louvre
and at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France.
We are aiming to bring together a diverse group of specialists -- e.g.,
historians (of technology, art, trade, ideas), conservation scientists,
curators, and conservator-restorers -- to engage in an
inter-disciplinary exchange and to promote further research into the
development and cross fertilization of ideas and technology related to
the making of bronzes in France -- and by French artists abroad -- from
the Renaissance to the 19th century.
TOPICS
The conference will focus primarily on the following three inter-related
subject areas:
1. The origins and cross-fertilization of ideas and technology related
to the making of bronzes in France between the Renaissance and the 18th
century. This would include three types of perspectives: chronological,
geographical and typological.
2. The production of specific sculptors and founders, or of specific
works of art. While technical aspects would be mostly discussed, all
approaches aiming at documenting the production modes will be much
appreciated, including the diverse roles of those who had a hand in the
making of bronze statuary (e.g., sculptors, founders, merchants, ...)
and how this may have impacted stylistic and technical outcome.
3. Current state-of-the-art research methods and their application to
multi-disciplinary studies. This would include historical and
archaeological investigations, analytical studies of materials (e.g.
metal, core and patina), as well as experimental reconstructions of
metallurgical processes.
REGISTRATION and SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster
presentations before November 1st, 2011. The conference language will be
English.
MORE DETAILS at http://frenchbronze.net
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Francesca G. Bewer
Research Curator, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
617-495-1643 fax 617-495-0322
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138