The first session of this meeting is dedicated to the major restoration project of the St. Christopher wall painting in the Grote kerk or Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady) in Breda.
Announcement of a joint Meeting (the Picture Meeting & Kleurhistorisch Platform)
Date: 13 December 2012
Time: 9:15 registration -17:30
Venue: Grote Kerk, Kerkplein 2, 4811 XT Breda
This venue is situated in the south of the Netherlands. the nearest airport is Eindhoven airport. How to get there: www.grotekerkbreda.nl/contact_routebeschrijving.php
Register: Please register online via: www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/agenda/conservation-issues-on-paintings-in-situ or www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/monumenten/kennisoverdracht/kleurhistorisch-platform
Tentative program (The definite program will be online soon, the latest a week before 13/12) :
9h15 : Registration and coffee/tea
9h45 : Welcome by Willem van der Vis (director Grote Kerk Breda)
9h55 : Introduction morning session by Bernice Crijns/Mariël Polman (specialists Architectural Paint research and Paintings, Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency)
10h00 : Bernard Delmotte and Karin Keutgens (wall painting conservators) – The Breda St. Christopher wall painting (part I – assessment and conservation)
11h30 : Intermezzo with organ music and opportunity to view the wall paintings in the church
12h00 : Perla Colombini (professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pisa) – The Breda St. Christopher wall painting (part II – bindingmedia)
12h45 : Lunch
13h15 : Marjan Buyle en Anna Bergmans (Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed/Flemisch Heritage Agency) – Recente ontdekking van een Sint Christoffel van circa 1400 in de Sint Janskerk in Mechelen, zie abstract: http://wp.me/pLSqf-16P
14h00 : Introduction afternoon session, by Klaas-Jan van den Berg (senior researcher Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency)
14h05 : Kentby Catherine Daunt (PhD student NPG, London) – Making Art in Tudor Britain: technical analysis of early 17th century royal portraits in the NPG and at Knole house
14h35 : Martine Posthuma de Boer (Postgraduate Trainee Conservation and Restoration of Historic Interiors, University of Amsterdam) – Darkening of gilt leather hangings in theNetherlands. Characterising degradation phenomena of two case-studies: Sint Pietershof Hoorn and Weeshuis der HervormdenSchiedam
15h05 : Tea
15h20 : Willianne van der Sar (Conservator in Private Practice) – The Application of Solvent Gels in the Conservation of Historic Interiors
15h50 : Rutger Morelissen and Simone Vermaat (Researchers, Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency) – Monumental Art: Technique and Experiment
16h20 : Luciana Akerlund (intern at SRAL, Courtald graduate 2012) – Efflorescence: An investigation of selected paintings from the 19th tot the 21st century with a preliminary experimental study of the role of moisture in the development of efflorescence
16h50 : close; drinks
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