Prado devotes a conference to the scientific study of works of art

This international conference is proposed as an occasion to deepen knowledge of the disciplinary shifts that took place in the first decades of the twentieth century, when the intersection of scientific research with historiography was irrevocably revealed.

Changes in Art History – Motivated by connoisseur ship Scholarly research and renewal of restoration practices and new institutional purposes for museums were produced – with the activity of some pioneers and enthusiasts of experimentation who transcended the boundaries of disciplines or rigorous professional practice, soon finding considerable support in the initiatives of international institutions and organizations in the League of Nations. For example, the Conference for the Study of Scientific Methods Applied to the Examination and Preservation of Works of Art (Rome, October 13-17, 1930), in which most European countries participated, made a decisive turn for the establishment of the network – in which it is necessary to distinguish between supporters and detractors, between participants and absentees – That paved the way for the birth of conservation science and the physical search for cultural origins in art history.

program

September 27, 2023

It’s 09:00
Reception and approval.

09:30 am
Presentation of the conference.
Miguel Valomir, Director of the Prado Museum.

09:45 am
Inaugural conference: L’oeil et la main. Deux approaches variations de l’histoire de l’art.
Michel Hochmann, Graduate School of Applied Studies, Paris.

10:30 am.
stop.

11:30 am.
part One

Scientific analysis sviluppo delle analisi applies to Beni Culturali in Europa nel XIX secolo e il ruolo dell’Italia.
Paolo Bensi, University of Genoa Studies.

Real art science. Giovanni Morelli and the occupation of the conoscitore.
Maurizio Lorber, University of Trieste Studies.

The beginnings of the application of radiography to the study of drawing.
Ana Gonzalez Mozo, Prado Museum.

Radiografia e connoisseurship: le indagini ai raggi xe le proposed critic de Alan Burroughs.
Marco Cardinale, University of Campania.

1:30 p.m.
debate.
Curator: Miguel Valomir, Director of the Prado Museum.

02:00.
stop.

4:00 pm.
Communication board I.

Wilhelm Bode Pseudo-Boccaccino 1890. The Individualization of an Unknown Renaissance Painter at the Height of Taste and Controversy Over the Interpretive Monopoly of Italian Art.
Llane Fragoso Maldonado, Freie Universität Berlin.

Louis Pasteur and the Origins of the Interdisciplinary Study of Painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Pauline Deschamps-Kahn and Christopher Bakke, École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Science cultivated by the museum. Scope and Details of Art Studies at the National Museum, Mexico City (1900-1910).
Nathel Cano, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

The Eye Against Chemistry: Art Studies in the Netherlands in the 1920s and 1930s.
Arjan de Komen, University of Amsterdam.

Early Bridging Art Analysis and Conservation: Focus on Stanley Kennedy North (1887-1942), artist, restorer and scholar.
Camille Polkonik, Hamilton Care Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

trapped in the past. Polish Museums in the Interwar Period and New Technologies.
Kamila Klodkiewicz and Aldona Tullich, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

5:30 p.m.
debate.
Moderator: Marco Cardinale, University of Campania.

September 28, 2023

09:30 am
Section two.

Conservation Policy and Art History: Science, Techniques, and Experience at Interbellum.
Sven Dobre, Utrecht University.

Converging Looks: Artists and Scientists Before the Discovery of Nature.
Santiago Aragon, Sorbonne University.

10:30 am.
stop.

11:30 am.
Section III.

British Answer and Scientific Inquiry applies to artistic processes, with pioneering expertise, art history, and conservation problems.
Maria Beatrice De Rugeri, Imebi Technical Diagnostics, Rome.

Museums, art academies and university research laboratories: Munich as a case study.
Andreas Burmeister, Emeritus of the Dorner Institute, Munich.

Art Studies in Fine Arts: The Vogue Museum and the Emergence of Conservation.
Francesca Bauer, Harvard Art Museum.

He was born from the scientific laboratory of the Louvre Museum and from the Gabinetto Pinacologico di Napoli.
Angela Cerasolo, Capodimonte Museum, Naples.

1:30 p.m.
debate.
Coordinator: Maria Clelia Gallasi, University of Genoa Studies.

02:00.
stop.

4:00 pm.
Section III.

Restoration workshop of the Museo Nacional del Prado under the direction of Francisco Javier Sánchez Canton. Survey of 1932 and First Guide to the Preservation and Restoration of Paintings by the International Bureau of Museums (1939).
Maria Concepción García Cabarcos is an independent researcher.

4:30 p.m
Communication board II.

A new way of seeing. Art Diagnosis, Art Criticism, Restoration 1926-1939.
Silvia Cecchini, Roma Tre University.

Renato Mancia and the Scuola Nazionale del Restauro (Milan 1935) in Contemporary Debate.
Silvio Mara, Catholic University of Milan.

Art Under Ultraviolet at the Metropolitan Museum: James Rorimer’s Contribution to the 1930 Conference in Rome.
Elena Carrara, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Don’t hurt the plates!” Carl Nordenfalk (1907-1992) and the first technical campaigns at the National Museum in Stockholm.
Sabrina Norlander Eliasson, Stockholms University.

Nearly 100 years of science at Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
Mireia Campuzano, Nuria Orioles, Carles Ribo, Museo National de Arte Catalunya.

Physical Studies of Large Forms at the Cultural Heritage Institute of Spain.
Miriam Boso Manzanas, Beatriz Mayans Zamora, Ana Rosa García Pérez, Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain.

6:00 p.m
debate.
Curator: Ana González Mozo, Museo Nacional del Prado.

September 29, 2023

09:30 am
Section IV.

The International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation (SDN) and Action for Sons for Heritage at the Center for Guerrilla Warfare.
Annamaria Ducci, Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara.

The internationalization of the Prado Museum in the genesis of the International Office of Museums (OIM).
Reyes Carrasco, Prado National Museum.

Nuova museologia e reconfigurazione dei labouratori museali di restaurant.
Maria Beatrice Faella, University of Turin.

11:00 am.
debate.

11:30 am.
stop.

12:30 pm.
Section V

La Conferenza di Roma del 1930 and la (scarsa) partecipazione degli storici dell’arte italiani.
Marco Cardinale.

A Great Absence at the 1930 Congress: The Prado Museum and Artistic Personalization in the First Third of the Twentieth Century.
Ana Gonzalez Mozo.

1:30 p.m.
Discussion and conclusions.
Moderator: Javier Arnaldo, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Engraving:
Free of charge, through the form available online at Prado Museum website.
Sessions can be attended in person until capacity is reached, as well as online, through the link to the Zoom platform that will be provided to registrants. When registering, it is necessary to choose the type of assistance.

Registration deadline:
Until September 18, 2023.

for more information:
www.museodelprado.es