• 02-02-2024
  • 09:00 - 16:30
  • RCE, Smallepad 5, Amersfoort + online

The Picture Meeting is a platform to discuss topics and burning questions regarding the conservation and research of painted objects.

De voertaal van deze bijeenkomst is Engels.

The next Picture Meeting will be a hybrid meeting, so it will be possible to attend in Amersfoort or online. 

Admission to this event is free after online registration. There is space for a maximum of 100 participants at the location in Amersfoort. You can follow the meeting online if you are unable to travel to Amersfoort.

Register here

Program

TimeTopic
09.00Walk-in
09.30Welcome and introduction
Klaas Jan van den Berg (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed)
09.40Hold your Horses; another Boar-ing presentation about Paulus Potter and the Stier
Jolijn Schilder and Abbie Vandivere (Mauritshuis)
10.10New light on Maarten van Heemskerck’s Saint Luke painting the Madonna 
Mireille te Marvelde and Jessica Roeders (Frans Hals Museum)
10.40Coffee/tea break
11.10The Crucifixion of the master of the Lamentation of Christ in Lindau macro- and microscopically
Luc Megens (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed)
11.40The Triptych of the Madonna with Saints (c.1410) in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum - examination and decisions
Eva van Zuien (freelance/Museum Boijmans van Beuningen)
12.10MOXY project 
Catarina Pires (University of Amsterdam)
12.30Lunch
13.30Revealing the underlayers in the 'Meagre Company' and Haarlem civic guard portraits by Frans Hals using MA-XRF scanning
Nouchka de Keyser and Annelies van Loon (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
14.00Examination and treatment of cadmium yellow paint in a neoplastic painting by Piet Mondrian
Laura Kolkena (Kunstmuseum Den Haag)
14.301) The long industrial road to synthetic indigo;
2) Let´s talk about YInTiCo red, a new pigment made from rare elements

Matthijs de Keijzer (independent)
15.00Coffee/tea break
15.30Tears covered by paint – understanding the current state of a painting by Eugène Leroy
Chiara Schweizer (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam)
16.00Aspergillus, Alternaria and Penicillium – treatment of Fungal Infestation in a Plaster Casts Collection
Lydia Beerkens (Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg)
16.30The use of Pemulen emulsions for the removal of overpaint, discoloured remains of lining adhesive and remnants of older varnish layers from a Civil Guard portrait by Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen, 1650
Marjan de Visser (freelance)
17.00Drinks and nibbles