This two-day conference will explore materials, techniques and artistic interconnections across Europe, including the role played by those who commissioned or sought sculptural works of art from foreign artists.

Programme :

Friday 20 March

10.00-10.30 : Coffee and Registration
10.30 Welcome: Paul Williamson, Keeper, Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass, V&A

10.40 Session One – Introduction: Disseminating Artistic Ideas
Chair: Amanda Lillie, University of York

Eckart Marchand, The Warburg Institute, University of London – Image and Thing: the distribution and impact of plaster casts in Renaissance Europe
Cinzia Sicca, University of Pisa – The Tuscan sculpture and marble trade with Europe in the 16th century
11.40 Refreshments

12.00 Session Two – Italian Sculpture in Northern Art
Chair: Susie Nash, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Jens Burk, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich – “Conrat Meit von Worms“- court sculptor of Margaret of Austria
Paula Nuttall, V&A – Memling and Italian Renaissance sculpture
13.00 Lunch (provided)

14.15 Session Three – The Netherlands and Spain
Chair: Léon Lock, University of Leuven, Brussels

Arie Pappot, The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (co-author), and Lisa Wiersma, University of Amsterdam – The sculptural work of Jacques Jonghelinck (1530-1606)
Kim Woods, The Open University – The activation of the image: expatriate carvers and kneeling effigies in late Gothic Spain
15.15 Refreshments

15.45 Session Four – Exporting Italian Sculpture to Spain and France
Chair: Carmen Fracchia, Birkbeck, University of London

Johannes Röll, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome – Sculpture in Italy and Spain around 1500.
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, University of Vermont – Pietro Tacca’s bronze equestrian monuments for Spain
16.45 Discussion
17.15 Drinks reception
18.15 Close

Saturday 21 March

10.00 Coffee and Registration
10.20 Welcome and Summary of Day One: Glyn Davies, V&A

10.30 Session One – English Renaissance Sculpture
Chair: Phillip Lindley, University of Leicester

Peta Motture, V&A – Making connections and asking questions around the transmission of bronze techniques.
Kent Rawlinson, Royal Institute of British Architects – Giovanni da Maiano: revisiting the English career of a Florentine sculptor (1520-42)
11.30 Refreshments

12.00 Session Two – Exchanges between Italy and the North
Chair: Marika Leino, Oxford Brookes University

Thierry Crépin-Leblond, Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d’Écouen – Francesco Scibec da Carpi, an Italian woodcarver at the French Court
Robert van Langh, The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – The influence of bronze casting techniques from north of the Alps on Florentine bronzes in the third quarter of the 16th century
13.00 Lunch (provided)

14.15 Session Three – Hungary: Patronage and Artistic Interconnections
Chair: Peter Dent, University of Bristol

Péter Farbaky, Budapest History Museum – The relationship between architecture and sculpture in Hungarian early Renaissance art patronage
Alison Luchs, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC – The relief of Alexander the Great in the National Gallery of Art: the Hungarian connection
15.15 Refreshments

15.45 Session Four: Panel Discussion
Chair: Holly Trusted (formerly known as Marjorie Trusted), V&A

Jeremy Warren, The Wallace Collection
Alison Wright, University College London

16.30 Close

Informations pratiques :
When: Fri 20 March 2015 – Sat 21 March 2015
Where: The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre – London

Free, booking essential (here)

Source de l’information : Victoria and Albert Museum