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Preliminary Program, 10^th International Round Table on Ancient Polychromy, Berlin, James Simon Gallery, Nov. 11-13, 2020

Color & Space Interfaces of Ancient Architecture and Sculpture

Wednesday, 11/11/2020

Light, Shadow, and Brilliance: Manipulating Form and Perception

Chair: Brigitte Bourgeois

14:30 – 15:00	R. Posamentir (Tübingen) Painted or not painted – that is still the question
15:00 – 15:30	A. Nunn (Würzburg) Mesopotamische Statuen – Farbe, Licht und Architektur
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30	P. Jockey (Paris Nanterre), M. Alfeld (Delft) The Polychromy of the Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi: an example case of a close interaction between color and space in a Panhellenic sanctuary
16:30 – 17:00	E. Neri (Paris), N. Kopczinski (Paris), F. Béjaoul (Tunis), F. Baratte (Paris) Portraits romains dorés de l’odéon de Carthage
17:00 – 17:30	P. Liverani (Florence) Σκιά and χρῶμα, the importance of preparatory drawing
17:30 – 18:00	Coffee break

Re-Contextualization and Visualization: Sculpture in its Architectural Setting (part 1)

Chair: Jan Stubbe Østergaard

18:00 – 18:30	G. Verri, K. Raff, R. Sabino (Chicago) Battling the giants: the investigations and interpretation of the polychromy of an Etruscan terracotta gigantomachy
18:30 – 19:00	L. Ungaro (Rome) Marmi dipinti, marmi colorati nel Foro di Augusto: un unico programma architettonico- scultoreo

Thursday, 11/12/2020

Re-Contextualization and Visualization: Sculpture in its Architectural Setting (part 2)

Chair: Jan Stubbe Østergaard

09:00 – 09:30	S. Bracci, G. Bartolozzi, S. Lenzi, P. Liverani, D. Magrini, R. Manganelli Del Fà (Florence), R. Iannaccone (Sassari) Marble sculptures and their context in the so-called “Villa of Poppaea” at Oplontis
09:30 – 10:00	C. Barandoni (Naples) Analysing, documenting, and re-contextualizing the Farnese Collection statues from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome

Interiors and Exteriors: Color as a Medium of Architecture

Chair: Paolo Liverani

10:00 – 10:30	H. Brecoulaki (Athens) Why purple? Color as medium and message on the walls of the Mycenaean palace at Pylos
10:30 – 11:00	A. Nagel (New York City) On Choreographed Polychromies at Persepolis, Susa and Beyond: Achaemenid Monumental Facades between Painted Stone, Glaze, and Wall Painting
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00	E. Walter-Karydi (Munich/Athens) Wall Decorations and their Coloring in Hellenistic Houses
12:00 – 12:30	V. Ruppienė (Würzburg) Colors and marmora in the aula palatina of the Late Antique imperial palace at Trier
12:30 – 13:00	S. Zink (Berlin), J. Hainbach (Berlin/Munich), I. Reiche (Paris), J. Pflug (Berlin), M. Ceci (Rome) Temple A at Largo Argentina: the changing color schemes of a Mid Republican temple in Rome
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch break

Semantics and Symbolisms: the Meaning of Color

Chair: Martin Maischberger

14:30 – 15:00	F. Henke (Erlangen-Nürnberg) White Marble
15:00 – 15:30	J.S. Østergaard (Copenhagen) The color black: shades of meaning in the sculpture of classical antiquity
15:30 – 16:00	K. Sonne Møller (Copenhagen) Reflections on the Polychromy of the Archaistic Statue of Diana from Pompeii
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00	C. Roberts (Ann Arbor, MI) Creating sacred spaces through color choice in the Roman-Egyptian tombs of Terenouthis
17:00 – 17:30	S. Pedone (Rome), P. Andreucetti (Lucca) Colored Medieval Sculpture: Blue and Gold between East and West
18:00 – 19:30	Visit of Pergamon Panorama
20:00	Speakers dinner

Friday: 11/13/2020

News From Current Research

Greek contexts

Chair: Stephan Zink

09:00 – 09:30	P.J. Higgs, J. Dyer (London) Coloring the temples of Artemis at Ephesos
09:30 – 10:00	E. Aggelakopoulou, A. Bakolas (Athens) The Parthenon’s Cornice Blocks – Study of the ancient pigments and painting techniques via analytical methods
10:00 – 10:30	B. Bourgeois (Paris), G. Verri (Chicago), V. Jeammet (Paris), T. Deviese (Oxford) Purple for the Demos. Art and Luxury in Greek Coroplastic Polychromy of the 4th-3rd c. BCE
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30	D.H. Abramitis, S. Lepinski (New York City) Polychromy in the Greek and Roman Collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
11:30 – 12:00	B. Bourgeois, Y. Vandenberghe, V. Jeammet (Paris) News from the Pilina research project: identifying a lime painting technique on Greek terracotta figurines (Attic and Boeotia, 4^th-3^rd cent. BCE)

Roman contexts

Chair: Joanne Dyer

12:00 – 12:30	E. Canna (Ercolano), K. Lapatin (Los Angeles), P. Marraffa (Ercolano), F. Sirano (Ercolano), M. Svoboda (Los Angeles) Exploring Ancient Color at the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum
12:30 – 13:00	E. Neri (Paris), L. de Viguerie (Paris), C. Bouvier (Paris), A. Brunelle, (Paris) Fathi Béjaoui (Tunis), F. Baratte (Paris) The polychromy and wax finishing of an Imperial colossal statue from Thougga in the Bardo collection (Tunisia)
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30	C. Barandoni, A. Rossi (Naples) A scientific step forward in the study of three famous Venuses from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples
14:30 – 15:00	R. Iannacone (Sassari), B. Vak, K. Uhlir, M. Griesser, K. Zhuber-Okrog (Vienna) Recent analyses on the polychromy of Campana reliefs in the Antikensammlung of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break

Beyond the Greco-Roman World

Chair: Ina Reiche

15:30 – 16:00	T. Chapa Brunet (Madrid), M. Belén Deamos (Sevilla) Color in the pre-Roman Iberian sculpture and architecture
16:00 – 16:30	M. Naes, P. Agoridou, I. Mantouvalou, F. Förste, S. Schmid, B. Kanngießer (Berlin) Technical and provenance study of recently discovered Nabataean Marble Sculpture from Umm al-Biyara in Petra, Jordan
16:30 – 17:00	M. Mulliez, A. Mournier, M. Schlicht (Bordeaux) The polychromy of English medieval alabaster panels preserved in Aquitaine (France)
17:00 – 17:45	Final discussion (chair: Jan S. Østergaard)
18:00 – 19:00	Round Table Members Meeting