Revealing the Early Renaissance: Stories and Secrets in Florentine Art
Symposium
Saturday, March 23
10 am – 5 pm
Baillie Court
Public $144 | Members $120 | Students $50 (includes lunch)
Join leading international experts – curators, art historians, scientists and conservators – to learn how art history and science come together to give a fresh understanding of the artists who gave birth to the Renaissance, one of the most important periods in Western art history. Hear about new conservation research and scientific analyses that shed light on artists’ techniques and workshop practices of the times.
Symposium Program
9am Exhibition open for symposium attendees
10 am Welcome Matthew Teitelbaum
Introduction Gillian McIntyre and Sasha Suda
10:15 – 11:30 am Collaboration in the Impruneta Antiphonaries
Bryan Keene and Nancy Turner Moderator: Hayden Maginnis
11:30 – 11:45 am Coffee break
11:45 am – 1 pm Conservation Science: Painting in 14th-century Florence
Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Yvonne Szafran and Karen Trentelman, Moderator: Hayden Maginnis
1 – 2 pm Bagged lunch provided
2 – 3:15 pm A Conversation: Giotto 2013
Cecilia Frosinini and Carl Strehlke, Moderator: Hayden Maginnis
3:15 – 3:30 pm Tea break
3:30 – 4:45 pm The Master of the Saint George Codex
George Bisacca, Discussant: Sasha Suda
Presenters include:
George Bisacca, Paintings Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Cecilia Frosinini, Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro, Florence
Bryan Keene, Curatorial Assistant, Manuscripts Department, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Hayden Maginnis, Art Historian, Hamilton
Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Assistant Scientist, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
Carl Strehlke, Adjunct Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Yvonne Szafran, Senior Conservator, Head, Paintings Conservation, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Karen Trentelman, Senior Scientist, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
Nancy Turner, Conservator, Paper Conservation, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles