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Location:
National Portrait Gallery, London
Date:
29 November 2005
Contact:
Clare Oxenbury
Tel:
01865 248768
Fax:
01865 791237
Email:
clare@rms.org.uk
Website:
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ONLINE BOOKING FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE AT 4PM ON THURSDAY 24TH NOVEMBER
Recent advances in the analysis of paintings are leading to a revolution in how we look at art, the people who made it and, perhaps surprisingly, the social and economic climates in which they worked. By looking in detail at the material structure of paintings we can learn much about the choices artists made, why they made them and how and where their materials came from. An essential strand in these developments is the application of various forms of microscopy. This one-day meeting will look at the forefront of this field, from Roman wall paintings to the current fight against forgery, from simple surface microscopy to the most advanced laser Raman analysis, from why an artist might paint the way he did to what the choice of materials tells us about when and where the picture was painted.
Event Programme
10.00-10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30-10.35 Welcome Dr. Alison Crossley (University of Oxford)
Morning Chair Dr. Alison Crossley
10.35-11.15 Dr. Joyce Townsend (Tate Gallery)
Microscopical techniques contribute to knowledge and interpretation of traditional paintings
11.15-11.50 Valentine Walsh (Pigmentum Project)
Systematic analysis of historical pigments and historical collections of pigments
11.50-12.25 Dr. Henryk Herman (Actinic Technology/University of Surrey) & Dr. Tracey Chaplin (London Metropolitan University)
Advanced microscopical techniques for the characterisation of historical pigments
12.25-13.00 Dr. Ruth Siddall (University College London)
Not a Day Without a Line Drawn: Pigments and Techniques of Greek and Roman Artists
13.00-13.45 LUNCH
Afternoon Chair Dr. Ruth Siddall (University College London)
13.45-14.25 Dr. Nicholas Eastaugh (Pigmentum Project/University of Oxford)
Authenticity revisited: Beyond the microscopy of materials for dating and provenance
14.25-15.05 Paul Biro (Independent Consultant)
The use of fingerprints in art historical research
15.05-15.30 TEA
15.30-16.05 Jane Davies (Independent Consultant)
Microscopy and archival research: interpreting results within the context of historical records and traditional practise
16.05-16.40 Isabel Cardoso (University College London)
Eighteenth century church altarpieces in the Algarve, Portugal: A comparison of the historical documents to the results of microscopical analysis
16.40-17.00 Questions and Discussion
