07 OUT 2021 | ONLINE

9h00
Platform access/Registration

9h10
Conference Opening
Eduarda Vieira, Conference Chair, Director of CITAR
Maria Coutinho, Vice-Director of CITAR
Nuno Crespo, Director, School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

9h30
Keynote Speaker · Alison Yarrington (Loughborough University-UK)
Shaping Sculptural Histories, Mapping Sculpture and Beyond

10h10
Session I · 19th- and early 20th-century European sculpture
Chair: Maria Coutinho (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of Arts, Research Center for the Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR))

Eduarda Vieira (CITAR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
Geo-SR project: Goals and Outputs

José Guilherme Abreu (CITAR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
The transition between 19th and 20th century sculpture

Nicol Maria Mocchi (Independent researcher, Milan, Italy)
Marino Marini and the Community of Exiled Artists in Switzerland during World War II

11h50
Session II · 19th- and early 20th-century European sculpture
Chair: José Guilherme Abreu (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of Arts, Research Center for the Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR))

Jan Zacharias (The Institute of Art History, Charles University, Czech Republic)
Jewish Christ? Aspects of religious and artistic identity in the sculpture of late imperial Russia

Anatoly Rykov (St. Petersburg University, Russia)
Strategies of deconstruction. Adolfo Wildt and his “necromonger empire”

Ana Lourenço Pinto (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
History of Art and Materiality in Portuguese Neobaroque Sculpture, from late-Romanticism to modern synthesis

14h30
Keynote Speaker · Thayer Tolles (Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)
António Soares dos Reis and Augustus Saint-Gaudens: An Artistic Friendship

15h00
Session III · Artistic and Practice-based Research
Chair: Eduarda Vieira (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of Arts, Research Center for the Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR))

Agnès Le Gac (Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Technical data and memories of the oldest twentieth-century mouldmaker in Portugal: Manuel Branco (1925 –)

Pablo General (CITAR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
The "Ephemeral" Foundry on Rua Malmerendas in Porto: History of the First Exclusively Artistic Foundry in Portugal

Agnès Le Gac (Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Who was 'Faiunça'?

16h20
Session IV · Material and Technical Studies
Chair:  Rui Bordalo (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of Arts, Research Center for the Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR))

Sara Fragoso et al. (Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
The Head of Legros - Rodin’s Black Patina

Łukasz Żuchowski (Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, Poland)
Xawery Dunikowski and the materials of Polish modernist sculpture

António Mário Almeida et al. (Minho University, Portugal)
Exploring portable Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity avails in the Conservation Assessment of Plaster Sculptures in Museum environment

08 OUT 2021 | ONLINE

9h30
Keynote Speaker · Laura Castro (Director of Northern Portugal's Regional Directorate of Culture, Portugal)
Walls, and pillars – a call for protection. Reflections on sculpture in the museum

10h10
Session V · Conservation
Chair: Salomé Carvalho (Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto, Portugal)

Frederico Vaz (Municipality of Lisbon, Portugal)
Lisbon’s Public Sculptures: Management and Conservation of City Heritage

Davy Depelchin et al. (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
Immaterial icons? Conserving Constantin Meunier’s sculptures of labor

Elsa Murta et al. (José de Figueiredo Laboratory, DGCP, Lisbon, Portugal)
Soares dos Reis’ plaster models: technical production and the challenge of the conservation and restoration

11h30
Session VI · Documentation and Digital Heritage
Chair: Rui Bordalo
(Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of Arts, Research Center for the Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR))

Sebastien Clerbois (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
A 3D Potree tool for the technological study of sculpture

Frederico Henriques et al. (CITAR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
3D digitalization of a collection of plaster sculptures by João da Silva

Paula Mesquita Santos (Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto, Portugal)
Survey of Watermarks and Paper Types in Soares dos Reis’ Drawings - A Method of Study and Classification

Ana Lúcia Teixeira da Silva (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal)
“O Desterrado” by António Soares dos Reis – biographical notes

14h30
Session VII · Plaster
Chair: Elsa Murta (José de Figueiredo Laboratory, DGCP, Lisbon, Portugal)

Biancalucia Maglione (University of Florence, Italy)
A Material That “Lends Itself to Fine Interpretations”. The Status Of Plaster In Marino Marini’s Oeuvre

Chiara Marabelli (School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK)
The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: past, present and future possibilities of archaeological cast collections

Elisabeth Manship et al. (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)
Re-envisioning criteria for documentation of plaster artist models in museum collections