Conference
Icons In The Making
Invitation
We would like to inform you about the organization of an international conference on: “Icons in the Making”, which will take place in Paris, at the Institut National d’Histoire d’Art (INHA) and the Petit Palais Museum (Paris) on 8th-10th December 2021. The Conference is organized by INHA, France, in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, the Petit Palais Museum, the Quai Branly Museum (Paris), and the University of the Aegean and University of West Attica (Greece).
This conference-workshop aims to bring together art historians, art conservators and scientists specialised in the diagnosis and examination of the materials and technology in the construction of icons, seeking to create a network of permanent cooperation for the exchange of knowledge and experience in the study of the materials used in their construction and the creative process. How should we bring into the debate different methods of analysis of historical, stylistic, iconographic and material in order to understand the emergence of forms and the creative process?
The aim is to understand the process of creation and reconstruction of icons over time, the laboratory practices, the interventions related to the conservation, repair and, in general, the transformation of icons, in order to, in the long run, write their history and to involve the technological history of art in the history of social and religious practices.
This conference is a continuation of the two-day workshop that took place in Athens, in December 2020, with the same theme focusing specifically on Greek and Ethiopian icons, with organizers from Greece (the University of the Aegean; the Directorate of Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments of the Ministry of Culture and Sports; the University of West Attica; the Benaki Museum) and INHA. At the present conference, the discussion will be extended to the Mediterranean and the Slavic world. The topics to be addressed should allow for a review of contemporary research on the issues of the creation and transformation of icons, as well as possible transfers of materials, techniques and models between different cultural traditions. Also under consideration are questions of attribution to a particular maker, workshop or site.
On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Committee,
Irene Leontakianakou
Assistant Professor
University of theAegean
Icons In The Making
DATE
Wed, 08.12.21 -
Fri, 10.12.21
07:00 -
16:00
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Invitation
We would like to inform you about the organization of an international conference on: “Icons in the Making”, which will take place in Paris, at the Institut National d’Histoire d’Art (INHA) and the Petit Palais Museum (Paris) on 8th-10th December 2021. The Conference is organized by INHA, France, in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, the Petit Palais Museum, the Quai Branly Museum (Paris), and the University of the Aegean and University of West Attica (Greece).
This conference-workshop aims to bring together art historians, art conservators and scientists specialised in the diagnosis and examination of the materials and technology in the construction of icons, seeking to create a network of permanent cooperation for the exchange of knowledge and experience in the study of the materials used in their construction and the creative process. How should we bring into the debate different methods of analysis of historical, stylistic, iconographic and material in order to understand the emergence of forms and the creative process?
The aim is to understand the process of creation and reconstruction of icons over time, the laboratory practices, the interventions related to the conservation, repair and, in general, the transformation of icons, in order to, in the long run, write their history and to involve the technological history of art in the history of social and religious practices.
This conference is a continuation of the two-day workshop that took place in Athens, in December 2020, with the same theme focusing specifically on Greek and Ethiopian icons, with organizers from Greece (the University of the Aegean; the Directorate of Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments of the Ministry of Culture and Sports; the University of West Attica; the Benaki Museum) and INHA. At the present conference, the discussion will be extended to the Mediterranean and the Slavic world. The topics to be addressed should allow for a review of contemporary research on the issues of the creation and transformation of icons, as well as possible transfers of materials, techniques and models between different cultural traditions. Also under consideration are questions of attribution to a particular maker, workshop or site.
On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Committee,
Irene Leontakianakou
Assistant Professor
University of theAegean
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