Artists and plaster casts I

Chair: Greg Sullivan (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

9:30

Picturing the use, collecting and display of plaster casts in 17th and 18th -century artists’ studios in Antwerp and Brussels

Leon Lock (University College London and the Low Countries Sculpture Society)

9:50

Rembrandt’s artful use of plaster casts: New Insights into seventeenth-century studio practices and working methods

Martha Gyllenhaal (Temple University and Bryn Athyn College)

10:10

Modern Sculpture in the making - Antonio Canova and plaster casts.

Johannes Myssok (Universität Münster, Germany)

10:30

Life Casts as ‘maternal devotedness’ in the studio of Marcello

Jean-François Corpataux (Université de Fribourg , Switzerland)

10:50

Discussion

11:10

Break

Artists and plaster casts II

Chair: Jonathan Wood (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds)

11:40

Shattering the Mold: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster

Sharon Hecker (Milan)

12.00

“Impressionism solidified” Umberto Boccioni’s plaster casts and the definition of modernity in sculpture

Maria Elena Versari (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

12:20

Outside in: The after -life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture

Sue Malvern (University of Reading)

12:40

Inside out as process for production - making positive and negatives casts for coins, medals and reliefs.

Jane McAdam Freud (Artist/Sculptor, London)

13:00

Discussion

13:20

Break

Techniques of conservation

Chair: Daniel Bone (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

14:30

The restoration of two plaster casts acquired by Velazquez in the XVII century: Hercules and Flora Farnese

Judit Gasca Miramón, Angeles Solis Parra and Silvia Viana Sánchez (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid)

14:50

The contribution of plaster sculptures and casts to successful conservation interventions

Maria Kliafa and Michael Doulgeridis (The National Gallery of Greece)

15:10

The benefits of laser cleaning plaster at 1064nm/532nm

Sam Sportun (Liverpool Conservation Technologies)

15:30

Discussion

15:50

Break

Models of architecture and collections of casts after gems

Chair: Christoph Frank (Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio)

16:20

Plaster models and plaster casts of classical architecture and its decoration

Valentin Kockel (Universität Augsburg)

16:40

The Dactyliotheca of James Tassie and other Collections of Gem Impressions at GöttingenUniversity

Daniel Graepler (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen)

17.00

A Munificent gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust.

Gertrud Seidmann (Wolfson College, Oxford) and Claudia Wagner (Beazley Archive, Oxford)

17:20

Discussion

17:40

Close

19.00

Dinner in Worcester College for speakers and delegates