“Già chiamano in aiuto la chimica…” Restoration from bottega to scientific laboratory and site practice | Call for papers
15 e 16 dicembre 2023
Plesso di Santa Teresa, via della Mattonaia 18, Firenze
Deadline submission: 9 luglio 2023
The conference is organized by the University of Florence, the Politecnico di Milano, the Alma Mater Studiorum/University of Bologna, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. The focus is to explore the beginnings of the discipline of conservation/restoration on a scientific base.
On the basis of the positivist approach to the research, typical of the 1920s and 1930s, many scientific restoration laboratories were born in that period, among all for exemple the Research Laboratory at the British Museum, the Straus Conservation Center at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge (Mass.), The Rathgen-Forschungslabor in Berlin, the Laboratoire pour l’étude scientifique des peintures at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Gabinetto di pinacologia e restauro di Napoli and the Gabinetto Restauri in Florence.
The first International Conference for the Study of Scientific Methods in the Examination and Conservation of Artworks, held in Rome in 1930, and the following Athens Conference were instrumental in the spreading of a new scientific attitude toward the artworks and the architecture. A new culture of the scientific research applied to the artworks began to settle in Europe and in the U.S. In Italy the institutional climax happened in 1939 when in Rome was founded the Central Institute of Restoration (Istituto Centrale per il Restauro), under the direction of Cesare Brandi, in a logic of centralizing (and diminishing) all the similar laboratories in Italy. Not to mention that these were also the years of the international survey on the training of the restorers, the years of the 1933 Superintendents’ conference and of the introduction of the Italian national legislation on the care, which would have allowed the definitive overcoming of the perspective of the legislation of the pre-unification states. The diversified actions carried out in view of the protection of the Italian historical and artistic heritage from the 1930s onwards, and the individual characters who embodied the concept of “safeguard”, shaped the roots of the Italian culture of restoration.
In this frame set, one of the major protagonists in the field of conservation of architectural heritage was Piero Sanpaolesi, who had been a member of the above mentioned Restoration Department of the Florence Belle Arti Soprintendenza (Gabinetto Restauri), established in 1932 by Ugo Procacci. This institution was meant to be the identity nucleus, together with the Medicean “Workshop of Semi-Precious Stones”, of the modern Opificio delle Pietre Dure, one of the most prominent Conservation Institutes in the world.
TOPICS
0. Preludes
1. Scientific laboratories, technical instruments and analyses
2. From the historical perspective:
the regional laboratories and the protagonists
3. The birth of the bodies responsible for the safeguard and legislation of historical and artistic heritage
4. Lexicon, handbooks and scientific glossaries
5. Museology and heritage conservation.
The role of art historians and museum curators
6. Publications, journals and conference proceedings
7. Collaboration between science, art history and restoration
8. The role of the universities; the education and the training system
9. The restoration site as a laboratory of knowledge:
case studies in a comparative perspective
10. The interdisciplinarity of processes:
the relationship between restoration and the scientific laboratory
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstract submission for the Conference 2023 is open until July 9, 2023.
An exhaustive preliminary abstract is required (in Italian, French or English). The abstract (not exceeding 2000 characters, spaces included) should include:
Title, Name/s of the author/s, affiliation, email address of the corresponding author; keywords (3 to 5), and the “code” identifying the contribution (i.e., the number identifying the topics above mentioned in the program of the Conference).
Names and contact details of all authors must be submitted together with the abstract.
The following sections are required: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusion. The abstract should not contain any reference, table, illustration or graphic.
Abstracts and contributions must follow the templates provided by the conference organization, available on the web site https://www.dida.unifi.it/p882.html.
The abstract must be sent in PDF format to: gabinettiscientifici@dida.unifi.it
The file must be named as follows: Surname of the corresponding author, Initial of given name, underscore, topics number (1, 2, 3…). (e.g.: RossiA_2.pdf.).
Changes in abstracts cannot be made after submission.
The abstracts will be examined by the Scientific Committee of the conference.
By July 17, 2023, the papers acceptance will be communicated to those who have submitted the abstracts. The authors of the selected scientific contributions are due to send the extended text by September 10, 2023.
Every paper will be peer-reviewed/double blind revied. The reviewers will be appointed by the Scientific and Executive Committees.
The Executive Committee has the faculty to ask the authors to make any changes/ integrations suggested by the referees.
Templates
SCHEDULES
July 9, 2023: deadline of abstracts submission
July 17, 2023: communication of the selected abstracts
September 10, 2023: deadline of the final texts (not exceeding 12000 characters, included spaces, footnotes, captions and callouts)
September 20, 2023: communication to the authors of the peer reviews outcome
September 30, 2023: deadline for the final texts
December 2023: proceedings in print
REGISTRATION FOR THE CONFERENCE
Conference registration fee: € 200
Reduced fee for PhD students/Master degree students/ School of Specialization students: € 120
Reduced fee for ICOMOS/SIRA members: € 180
Contact
gabinettiscientifici[AT]dida.unifi.it
phone: +39 (0)55 275 5466
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