International conference
Grand Salon – Villa Medici
9h30-17h
Daytime conference program
Sam Stourdzé, French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome
- 9h40 Introduction from the organizers
RETHINKING THE ANTIQUE TO THE RENAISSANCE
Moderation : Claudia Valeri, Vatican Museums
- 10h The Sack of Rome (1527) : a Turning Point in the History of Collecting
Kathleen Christian, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 10h30 Villa Médicis 1989-2010: a balance sheet
Carlo Gasparri, University of Naples Federico II, Naples
- 11:30 a.m. Egyptian statues exhibited in Rome, represented in France: a case study
Cristina Ruggero, Antiquities Treasure, BBAW, Berlin
- 12h Discussion (45′)
ANTIQUES IN COLLECTIONS
Moderation : Cécile Giroire, Louvre museum
- 14h30 Antiquities in the garden: reference models and aspects of originality in the display of the Savonanzi in Trastevere collection (17th century)
Astrid Capoferro, Swedish Institute in Rome, Rome (30′)
- 15h ‘No Nation under Heaven so nearly resembles the Ancient Greeks and Romans than We’: Staging the Antique in British Interiors, 1720-1770
Adriano Aymonino, University of Buckingham, Buckingham
- 16h00 An antiquity in color: collection, exhibition, restoration and copying of ancient wall paintings and mosaics in Roman collections in the 17th century
Delphine Burlot, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
- 4:30 p.m. A marble museum: the political materiality of the Louvre at the time of the revolutions
Adrián Almoguera, Complutense University, Madrid
