Forum on painting and polychrome sculpture, 1100-1600

Painting and polychrome sculpture, 1100-1600
Interpretation, material histories and conservation
Museum of Cultural History
University of Oslo
Frederiksgate 2
0164 Oslo (Norway)
26-27 November 2010

Conservation Studies at the University of Oslo will host a forum
around the theme of medieval and late-medieval painting and
polychrome sculpture. Speakers include conservators, conservation
scientists and historians. Papers and discussion points will explore
issues related to the interpretation and conservation of
northern-European liturgical furniture, circa 1100 to 1600.

Programme

    <URL:http://osloforum.wordpress.com/>

The University of Oslo owns a rich collection of altar frontals and
polychrome objects. Over the past 30 years, scholarship has focused
on medieval painting techniques identified in Norwegian frontals and
sculptures. A major study of 31 frontals dating from 1250 to 1350
was completed in 2006 and the mapping of materials in surviving
sculptures that date between 1100 and 1350 is in progress. These
projects have been especially meaningful because those works that
pre-date the 1340s are, with few exceptions, the products of
Norwegian workshops.

Platform for new research: The paintings and sculpture in the Oslo
collection that are thought to date after the first wave of Bubonic
plague and through the Reformation (c. 1350-1600) are a far less
homogenous group. The majority are thought to have been imported to
Norway from the Low Countries and north German/Baltic regions, but
these objects have been explored far less extensively than those
which pre-date 1350. Therefore, many questions remain about their
origins, circumstances of production and materials, as well as their
current state of preservation.

This part of the collection will be the focus of a new research
project based in Conservation Studies at UiO, led by Noelle Streeton
in collaboration with Kaja Kollandsrud and the Museum of Cultural
History. This forum is intended to aid the development of a research
platform for the long-term study of this late-medieval collection.

Cost

    NOK 800 (NOK 400 for students and concessions)
    Cost includes lunch (2 days) and drinks reception.

Registration and hotels: Please register online. A place will be
reserved once payment is registered. Details of local hotels are
also given in these pages.

Please direct questions that are not addressed in the web pages to
Hildegunn Gullasen <hildegunn.gullasen<-at->iakh<.>uio<.>no>

Organisers

    Noelle Streeton
    Associate Professor, Conservation Studies
    Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History, UiO
    n.l.w.streeton<-at->iakh<.>uio<.>no

    Kaja Kollandsrud
    Senior Conservator, Museum of Cultural History, UiO
    kaja.kollandsrud<-at->khm<.>uio<.>no

    Hildegunn Gullasen
    Research Assistant, Conservation Studies
    Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History, UiO
    hildegunn.gullasen<-at->iakh<.>uio<.>no


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