Upcoming Events
The 12th International Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture
Art & Science Unite! Interdisciplinary Polychromy Research
18 – 21 November 2024
at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
See Updated Conference Information here.
For further information contact: PRT12@getty.edu
Past events
"Colouring in a ‘Dark’ Age: Histories of Colour in the Post-Classical World" Conference, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
20th September, 2024.
This international conference revisits the varied roles of colour in the societies around the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to c. 1000. Long neglected in scholarship until recently, colour is increasingly recognised for its importance to all aesthetic visual experiences: unfixed, universal, present yet intangible, it serves as unique vehicle for emotions and expression. Renewed scholarly attention has uncovered its roles in the economic, social, and religious lives of both the Classical period and the post-High Middle Ages but has ignored the period between them. This conference seeks to fill the lacuna and debunk the ‘Dark Age’ moniker in literal terms. It recalibrates scholarly attention onto a critical historical context where thinking about colour continued to evolve and innovate, exploring contexts as diverse as Christian salvation texts and Sassanid Iran.
Online registration is available. To attend, please register here by September 19, 2024.
"Egyptian Blue – From Literature to the Artifact to the Lab" - 30th EAA Annual Meeting in Rome, Italy. Session #723.
28th - 31st August, 2024.
Organisers:
Anthony Baragona, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Alexandra Rodler-Rørbo, Austrian Archaeological Institute
Hilary Becker, Binghamton University
Giovanni Verri, Art Institute of Chicago
Ariadne Kostomitsopoulou Marketou, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society
As the first artificial pigment, Egyptian blue has a millennia-long history of production, processing, working, and use. Experimental archaeology, archaeometry, and research into ancient texts make it possible to understand more about how this first synthetic pigment was made, distributed, and used. Technological choices in ancient production practices and the provenance of resources are interesting meeting points for discussing cultural change and trade interactions in human history. An interdisciplinary dialogue between archaeologists and natural scientists is desirable to address challenges related to the analysis of archaeological materials.
Contributions are invited that inspire this dialogue and discuss work on the development of analytical instruments and techniques, experimental approaches, analysis of production technology and material provenance.
Further details of the session can be found here.
The finalprogramme for the session can be found here.
VII COLLOQUIO AIRPA - Ostia Antica, Italy.
20th - 22nd June, 2024.
The theme of the meeting is "La pittura parietale in museo".
More information here.
International study day - "Crossed views on the use of polychromy in ancient societies". Odeon of the Archéopôle d'Aquitaine in Pessac.
6th - 7th June, 2024.
An international study day that presented all the work carried out by interdisciplinary research entitled:
“Tracking polychromy in Antiquity : attempt to restore colour at the oracular temple of Apollo at Delphi ”
Organized as part of the scientific events of the Major Research Program "Human Past" with the support of the FSAB (Federations of Archaeological Sciences of Bordeaux), the GPR Human Past and the LTC Incubator program.
More information here.
International symposium, kulturGUTerhalten, at the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst (Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art) in the Bode-Museum
Reconstruction – Addition – Retouching: History(ies) of the Restoration of Archaeological Treasures
29th - 31st May, 2024.
For more information about this symposium, please visit:
kulturGUTerhalten: Reconstruction – Addition – Retouching (smb.museum)