Gothic Ivories: Content and Context
Conference
Saturday 5 July 2014, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Sunday 6 July 2014, The British Museum, London
Organised by: John Lowden, Catherine Yvard (The Courtauld’s Gothic Ivories Project), Naomi Speakman (The British Museum)
Jointly organised by The British Museum and The Courtauld Gothic Ivories Project, this event follows on from the successful 2012 conference Gothic Ivories: Old Questions New Directions (V&A-Courtauld). Celebrating new research on Gothic ivory carving, papers will focus on a wide range of topics arising from the study of Gothic ivory carving and Embriachi pieces, related to the themes of content and context. Themed sessions will be dedicated to questions of iconography, sources and original use and context, research into provenance, relationships with other media, ivory carving in the 16th century, history of collecting, from the 18th century to the 20th century.
The conference will also coincide with the publication of the catalogue of Gothic Ivories in the Victoria & Albert Museum, by Paul Williamson and Glyn Davies.
Launched on the web in December 2010, the Gothic Ivories Project has played an important part in putting Gothic ivory carving in the limelight and over 3,800 objects are now available online, from hundreds of museums around the world: www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk
DAY 1
Saturday 5 July: The Courtauld Institute of Art, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
9.30 Registration (reception hall-Courtauld Institute)
10.00 Introduction John Lowden and Catherine Yvard, The Courtauld Institute of Art
10.15 KeynotePaul Williamson, Victoria and Albert Museum
‘They Who Only Ivories Know, Know not Ivories’: Polychrome and Other Micro-Carvings around 1400 in their Broader Context.
Session One: The Object and its History
10.45 The Ivory Virgin and Child from the Martin Le Roy Collection
Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, Musée du Louvre, Parisand Juliette Levy-Hinstin, Conservator, Paris
11.05 A Happy End: The Group of the Descent of the Cross Reunited
Élisabeth Antoine-König, Musée du Louvre, Paris and Juliette Levy-Hinstin, Conservator, Paris
11.25 Looking Closely: What a 14th-Century Ivory has been Waiting to Tell Us
Lydia Chávez, University California Berkeley
11.45 Coffee break
Session Two: Ivories in Context: Sources and Uses
12.15 I segni del potere. I Pastorali gotici in avorio per i Vescovi dell’Italia mediana
Ileana Tozzi, Museo Diocesano di Rieti
12.35 Buying, Gifting, Storing: Ivory Madonnas in Documentary Sources from Late Medieval Central Europe
Christian Nikolaus Opitz, University of Vienna
12.55 What’s in a Name: Peigniers, Tabletiers, and Late Flamboyant Parisian Ivory
Katherine Eve Baker, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch
Session Three: Ivory Carving in the 16th century
14.30 Reproductions Reproduced. Woodcut, Ivory and Terracotta
Ingmar Reesing, University of Amsterdam
14.50 Biting, Dripping, Screaming? Active Bone on a Medical Knife Handle
Jack Hartnell, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
15.10 Anatomical Impulses in 16th-Century Memento Mori Ivories
Stephen Perkinson, Bowdoin College, Brunswick (Maine)
15.30 Refreshments
Session Four: Collecting in the 19th Century
16.00 Gothic Ivories in an Unknown Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Clément Wenceslas, Comte de Renesse-Breidbach (1776 – 1833)
Franz Kirchweger, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
16.20 Fictile Ivories: Diffusing the Taste for and Connoisseurship of Gothic Ivories
Benedetta Chiesi, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
16.40 William Maskell and his Network: a 19th-Century Case Study
Naomi Speakman, The British Museum, London
17.00 – 18.00 Reception
DAY 2
Sunday 6 July: The British Museum, Stevenson Lecture Theatre
9.30 Registration
10.00 Introduction Naomi Speakman, Curator of Late Medieval Collections, The British Museum
10.15 KeynoteMichele Tomasi, Université de Lausanne
Why the Embriachi?
Session One: New Perspectives on Embriachi Carving
10.45 When is a Workshop not a Workshop? Re-considering Embriachi Bone Carving
Glyn Davies, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
11.05 The Embriachi Collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
Monique Blanc, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
11.25 Coffee break
Session Two: Questions of Iconography
11.55 The Son of Man Crowned in Thorns: Gothic Ivories and the Invention of Tradition in 13th-Century Paris
Emily Guerry, University of Oxford
12.15 A Workshop Reconstructed: Construction and Content
Sarah Guérin, Université de Montréal
12.35 Twin Plaques from the State Hermitage Museum and Budapest Museum of Applied Arts: an Iconographical Study
Marta J. Kryzhanovskaia, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
12.55 – 14.00 Lunch
Session Three: Relationships with Other Media
14.00 The Use of Gothic Ivories as a Basis for the Iconography of the Tomb of Lady Inês de Castro (Alcobaça Monastery – ca. 1358 -1362)
Carla Varela Fernandes, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Lisbon
14.20 Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves in the Wallace Collection London
Geoffrey Rampton, Independent Scholar, London
14.40 Ivory, Parchment, Paper: Ivory Sculpture and the Arts of the Book, 14th-16th Century
Catherine Yvard, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
15.00 Refreshments
Session Four: Collectors and Ivories, 19th– 20th Centuries
15.30 ‘Collected with Love and Care’: Gothic Ivory in the Neutelings Collection of Medieval Sculpture
Lars Hendrikman, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
15.50 Paul Thoby, MD.: a Constant Collector
Camille Broucke, Musée Dobrée, Nantes
16.10 De Aves Venando in Eburibus: Two 19th– or 20th-century Ivories Acquired by Sir William Burrell
Anisha Birk, The British Museum, London and Robert Gibbs, University of Glasgow
16.30 – 16.45 Concluding remarks
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