• 01-11-2019
  • 09:30 - 17:00
  • Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Smallepad 5, 3811 MG Amersfoort

De voertaal van deze bijeenkomst is Engels.

The annual Picture Meeting is a platform for discussion and networking for conservators of painted objects, conservation scientists and art historians. The meeting is an opportunity to meet your peers and to share recent developments in thinking and practical approaches in conservation and conservation practice. Anyone involved, including students, in the research and care of painted objects is welcome!

The program for this meeting will focus on a variety of subjects from the history of technical studies on the cleaning of paintings, via formulation of 19th Century paints, to early uses of synthetic varnishes by Dutch leading conservators. Recent research and restoration projects on historic interiors, Van Gogh, Monet and Chagall will be presented.

Registration

The meeting is free of charge but you will need to register. Please do so using the registration form.

Program

Time
09.30Registration
10.00Welcome and Introduction
Klaas Jan van den Berg, RCE
10.10The Cultural Heritage Laboratory: research on demand
Inez van der Werf, RCE
10.25The cleaning of paintings: an overview of technical studies since the 1950s
Lambert Baij, UvA
11.15 BREAK
11.30Van Gogh’s ‘Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen’: Examination and treatment with a focus on original and later varnish layers
Kathrin Pilz, Van Gogh Museum
12.15Alkyd %#$@*? An unusual synthetic varnish
Klaas Jan van den Berg, RCE
12.30Announcement: Master class on wax/resin lining
Emilie Froment, UvA
12.35LUNCH
13.35Wisterias untangled – Research and conservation of a late Monet painting
Ruth Hoppe, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, FKA Gemeentemuseum
13.45Technical Research on nine paintings by Marc Chagall, 1912-1947
Meta Chavannes, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam en Klaas Jan van den Berg RCE
14.00Studying the “Algemeene Voorwaarden” - Reconstruction of 19th Century paints
Pieter Keune 
14.30The story of logwood ink
Han Neevel, RCE
15.15TEA
15.30Medieval Vault paintings of the Zuiderkerk, technical research combined with digital retouching and reconstruction.
Sanne Berbers, RCE
16.00Medieval tomb-paintings from Sluis
Rutger Morelissen, RCE
16.30Study of a sixteenth century panel painting from Spain
Maria Vicente, Marjan de Visser studio
17.00Drinks and nibbles.