Art in the Making: Carving Stone in the Classical World on 28th June 2013
Please note that the deadline for poster abstracts is this Friday, 26th April. See below for conference details.
The Art of Making in Antiquity, a Leverhulme-funded project, will be holding its final event on Classical stone carving on Friday 28th June 2013. This conference will mark the official launch of our website, a new resource for the study of Roman stoneworking which will be hosted at www.artofmaking.ac.uk
The conference will take place in the Anatomy Museum and Theatre on the Strand Campus of King's College London. The preliminary programme is pasted below. Further information is available on the Events page of our blog where you can also find the booking information (£10 including lunch):
http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/events/
http://tinyurl.com/c3hh2os
Posters are invited on the techniques of production of stone monuments from the Classical world or related topics and time periods. Research which combines the Digital Humanities is encouraged. Accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to be published on the final project website. Please send a title and abstract (250 words) with contact details and, where relevant, institutional affiliation to [log in to unmask] by 26th April 2013.
Art in the Making: Carving Stone in the Classical World
0915-0945 Registration followed by tea and coffee
0945-1000 Introduction by Peter Rockwell
1000-1045 Will Wootton and Ben Russell (King's College London), 'The Art of Making in Antiquity: stoneworking in the Roman world'
1045-1130 Olga Palagia (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens), 'Sculptural techniques in Greece from Archaic to Roman: questions of toolmarks and chronology'
1130-1215 Tony Kozelj (École Française d'Athène), 'The toolmarks and carving processes through antiquity on Thasos'
1215-1300 Niels Hannestad (Aarhus University), 'Restoration of marble sculpture in late antiquity - the evidence of toolmarks'
1300-1400 Lunch and Poster Session
1400-1445 Emma Libonati (King's College London), 'Unfinished, repaired, copied: case studies from the underwater excavations in Egypt'
1445-1530 Giovanni Verri (University College London) will be speaking about painted finishes on sculpture
1530-1600 Tea and Coffee
1600-1645 Mary Hollinshead (University of Rhode Island), 'Carving identity in Roman statues: the role of auxiliary supports'
1645-1730 Natalia Toma (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), 'Carving marble decoration. New arguments concerning the manufacturing process'
1730-1800 Conclusions by Peter Stewart (University of Oxford)
1800 Reception and Poster Session
Dr Will Wootton
Lecturer in Roman Art
King's College London,
London WC2R 2LS.
Tel. +44 (0)207 848 1015
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