Conferences

>> 21-23.02.2008 Genua (Palazzo del Principe)
Fortuna iconografica di Alessandro Magno negli arazzi del XV secolo: a proposito dei panni con Storie di Alessandro della collezione Doria Pamphilj di Genova. IV Giornata Warburghiana
Organized by Elisabetta Villari (Università degli Studi di Genova), Laura Stagno (Palazzo del Principe), Françoise Barbe (Petit Palais). Info: didattica@palazzodelprincipe.it; evillari@hotmail.com; curatore@palazzodelprincipe.it; francoise.barbe@paris.fr
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>> 01.03.2008 Berlin (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Textile Kunstwerke bewahren und erforschen. Symposium zu Ehren von Waltraud Berner-Laschinski

Including:
Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen, 'Verloren, gefunden, geschenkt. Zu einem Basler Bildteppich für das Museum Schnütgen'; Burkhardt Göres, 'Bildteppichsammlungen in Berlin'; Barbara Mundt, 'Bildteppiche im Kunstgewerbemuseum. Verlorenes und Erhaltenes'; Christine Waidenschlager, 'Gewirkt in Seide für Friedrich den Grossen. Eine Bildteppichserie aus dem Atelier der Berliner Manufaktur von Charles Vigne'.

Information and registration: kgm@smb.spk-berlin.de

>> 20-21.10-2007 New York (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Threads of Splendor: Tapestry in the Baroque. A Symposium

>> 06-08.10.2007 Angers, Palais Synodal
Tapisserie et broderie: relectures des mythes antiques et iconographie chrétienne
Organised by the Association Rencontre avec le Patrimoine Religieux
Centre François Garnier, 10 Place du Marché, 37600 Châtillon-sur-Indre. Tél. 33. (0)2.54.38.74.57
15 papers on tapestry
contact: Martine Tissier de Mallerais (mtissierdem@wanadoo.fr)

>> 21.09.2007 Antwerp, Rubenianum
Paper presented by Koenraad Brosens: Corpus Rubenianum: The Constantine Series. Het vraagstuk van de opdrachtgever opgehelderd

>> 24.08.2007 Glasgow (Glasgow University/The Burrell Collection)
Tapestries: Producers, Patrons and Purchasers
K. Brosens, 'Entrepreneurial strategies of Brussels tapestry producers, 1580-1680. Methodological issues'; D. Lievois, 'Tapestry at Ghent from the reign of Philip the Good until the end of the Calvinist regime'; K. Wilson, 'A Complex Product: Tapestry of the Burgundian dominions c. 1363-1450'; S. McKendrick, 'Types of Portraiture in Late Medieval Tapestry’, which will partly focus on the ‘Hercules and the Amazons’ tapestry currently on display within the Burrell Collection'. Concluding remarks by G. Delmarcel

>> 18-19.06.2007 Paris (École du Louvre, Mobilier National et Manufactures nationales des Gobelins, de Beauvais et de la Savonnerie)
La tapisserie hier et aujourd'hui
18.06: Bertrand, Brejon de Lavergnée, Brosens, Denis, de Reyniès, Favreau, Herrero Carretero, Innocenti, Raimbault, Vittet
19.06: Crasset, Cuzin, de Loisy, Ducros, Eberhard Cotton, Giffault, Glomet, Golan, Grynoas Nguyen, Janssen, Kaeppelin, Massé Bersani, Rouan

>> 02.04.2007 Université Paris X - Nanterre
Journée d’études en hommage à Françoise Bardon
Pascal-François Bertrand, Questions d’interprétation. La Fontaine d’Anet: une source pour les Placets d’Antoine Caron

>> 20.03.2007 Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago). Paper presented by Koenraad Brosens and Christa C. Mayer Thurman, The Potter Palmer Cyrus Tapestries.

>> 23.09.2006 La Chaise-Dieu (France). Les tapisseries de La Chaise-Dieu
Six lectures, including Laura Weigert (Les tapisseries de La Chaise Dieu, entre messe et mystère), Sophie Brun (Les modèles graphiques) and Catherine Arminjon (Les tapisseries de choeur, un patrimoine exceptionnel).

>> 12-14.01.2006 Bordeaux (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3). Colloquium L'objet d'art en France du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle: de la création à l'imaginaire
Pascal-François Bertrand, La tapisserie comme genre littéraire
Koenraad Brosens, Les importations de tapisseries de Bruxelles en France, 1600-1730

>> 04-06.01.2006 Oxford (St. Hugh's College). British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 35th Annual Conference.
Koenraad Brosens, The entrepreneurial strategy of the Auwercx family, minor Brussels tapestry producers (1660-1740)

>> 8-10.11.2005 Poitiers (Université de Poitiers). Colloquium La maison de l'artiste
Marc Favreau, Le Brun aux Gobelins. Le centre de la création artistique royale sous le règne de Louis XIV (1663-1690)
Koenraad Brosens, Establishing Repute. Houses and Shops of Brussels Tapestry Entrepreneurs around 1700

>> 20/21.06.2005 London (Hampton Court Palace). Monitoring of Damage to Historic Tapestries (MODHT) - End of Project Workshop. The project has focussed on practical damage assessment for historical tapestries by relating their construction materials and techniques to degradation mechanisms that can be measured scientifically at the molecular level. The workshop will therefore be relevant to conservators, restorers, curators, conservation scientists, collection care professionals and others interested in improving the care and protection of tapestries.

>> March, 2005 Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles). Presentation by Cecilia Paredes of her Ph.D. dissertation Vertumne et Pomone. Une fable et son décor dans quatre tentures tissées d or.

>> 11.04.2005 Genova (Palazzo del Principe, Villa di Andrea Doria). Giornata internazionale di Studi. Presentazione dell’arazzo restaurato: "Le imprese di Alessandro Magno in Oriente" della collezione Doria Pamphili. Speakers are: Laura Stagno, Monica Stucky–Schürer, Anna Rapp Buri, Chiara Frugoni, Elena Parma, Yvan Maes De Wit, Piero Boccardo.

>> 07.04.2005 Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago). Paper presented by Koenraad Brosens, The Rise and Fall of Gerard Peemans. Brussels Tapestries in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1650-1730.

>> 02.04.2005 Las Vegas (36th Annual Meeting of The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies). Paper presented by Koenraad Brosens, Régence and Brussels Tapestry: Philippe de Hondt and the Van der Borcht Workshop.

>> 14.12.2004 Madrid (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza). Seminario Internacional de Historia: “El Arte en la Corte de los Reyes Católicos”
Conferencia inaugural por Guy Delmarcel, que hablará sobre Isabel la Católica y su colección de tapices.

>> 13.12.2004 Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). Presentation by Martine Vermeiren-Vanwelden of her Ph.D dissertation Productie van wandtapijten in de regio Oudenaarde: een symbiose tussen stad en platteland (15de tot 17de eeuw).

>> 7-11.12.2004 Rome (Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane). I Barberini e la cultura europea del Seicento.
Pascal-François Bertrand, 'L'uso dell'arazzo nella Roma barocca: l'esempio del cardinale Francesco Barberini' [8.12].
James Harper, 'War & Peace in the Barberini Tapestries' [9.12].
The acts will be published in due course.