CFP: Painting Techniques: History, Materials and Studio Practice (Symposium Rijksmuseum): Deadline April 1rst 2013
The beautifully renovated Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its doors to the public in 2013. To celebrate this event the Rijksmuseum will host a three-day symposium on Historical Painting Techniques. The central theme of the symposium will be the technical study of historically used painting techniques, the historical painting materials, their origin and trade, and their application in the painter’s workshop.
This symposium will be the fifth in a series of very successful meetings that started in Prague in 1993, followed by a meeting in Leiden in 1995, and continued by the IIC congress in Dublin in 1998 and the National Gallery meeting in London in 2009. As considerable developments continue to take place in the field of ‘technical art history’, we hope to show the advances that are being made in the study of the material aspects of paintings. The symposium will provide a podium for the effective dissemination and fruitful discussion of new work.
We strongly encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between art historians, conservators, and scientists. Contributions discussing technical findings, documentary evidence and analytical results, in relation to art historical questions are particularly encouraged. We emphatically invite art historians to contribute, but also welcome relevant contributions from other disciplines, such as source research, conservation science, the history of science and technology, history of trade and trade routes, historical mining, metallurgy, pharmacy. The program should prove of interest to academic scholars and students as well as museum professionals, curators, conservators, art historians and scientists.
Contributions to the symposium are considered, either as oral presentation or as poster, on the assumption that they are not being considered for publication elsewhere. They should be original material that has not been published. Contributions should be related to the materials and methods of painting from the middle ages until the beginning of the 20th Century. Contributions on works of art in other media which have a direct bearing on painting will also be considered for inclusion in the symposium program.
Call for Papers and time table
Deadline for abstracts for oral papers and posters: 1 April 2013.
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2013.
Program published: 15 June 2013.