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NICAS Colloquium

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NICAS Colloquium

Abstract: Our cultural heritage comprises many art objects that are hundreds and sometimes thousands of years old. How did they survive this long? While many factors determine if and how art can be preserved, one has fundamentally impacted its long-term survival: the desire to make and own artefacts that withstand the test of time. Dynamics of the Durable: A History of Making Things Last in the Visual and Decorative Arts (DURARE) is a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council. Led by dr. Marjolijn Bol the project studies the impact of the artisan’s and the patron’s ambitions to craft, own and theorize durable objects on the long-term development of the visual and decorative arts. During this NICAS colloquium we will briefly present the scope of the DURARE project, after which PhD candidates Jan van Daal and Henrike Scholten present what they are working on for their dissertations. Bio: Marjolijn Bol (UU) is Associate Professor in Technical Art History and PI of the ERC Starting Project Dynamics of the Durable (2020-2025). Trained as an art historian, her research intersects with historical studies of craft, technology, and knowledge, with a special focus on performative methods (reconstruction) and written sources on art technology. In 2014, she received a VENI grant for her research on the history of imitation materials in the arts. Her current ERC research project DURARE investigates the history of durability in art from the perspective of artisans and patrons. Marjolijn is a member of the Utrecht Young Academy and a member of De Jonge Akademie of the KNAW. Jan van Daal joined the DURARE team in September 2020. Jan obtained his MSc in Technical Art History from the University of Amsterdam in 2019. He has worked on diverse topics, ranging from the manufacture of Romano-Egyptian mummy portraits to art materials in Early Modern Dutch pharmacology. The materials and techniques that underlie the production of cultural heritage objects are the red thread that tie Jan’s wide array of interests together. Henrike Scholten is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, as well as a practicing visual artist. She obtained her BA in Fine Art at Minerva Art Academy in Groningen, with an exchange period in Genoa (Italy). She obtained her ReMa in Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Groningen. Her academic research focusses on the material and experiential dimensions of artistic technique, especially as it relates to processes of artistic education.
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Yu Han Hsu - Unveiling The Madonna and Child after Jan Gossart Abstract: This presentation will introduce the research and conservation project of The Madonna and Child with a Veil in the Chimei Museum. The painting belongs to a popular copy series from sixteenth-century Antwerp that was modelled on Jan Gossart’s (1478-1532) design. The Chimei Museum acquired the painting via Christie’s of Amsterdam in 1996. However, it had been ignored for decades due to its unsatisfactory condition. In 2019-2020, the painting was finally examined and restored for a small educational exhibition of traditional Western oil paintings. In this presentation, I will first analyze how art historical research and technical studies helped to discover the connections between the Chimei version and other identical versions. In addition, I will also briefly introduce the restoration process of the painting, and the exhibition. Bio: Yu Han Hsu is a PhD candidate at Radboud University, under the supervision of Professor Ron Spronk and Professor Jos Koldeweij. Her primary research interest is the making of painted copies in the sixteenth-century Netherlands. She is also a junior curator at the Chimei Museum and Chimei Cultural Foundation in Taiwan. From 2018 to 2020, she conducted research on the museum's Western art collection to gain insight into the growing trend of collecting Old Masters' works in Asia. Since 2020, Yu Han has been leading a research project on the early Netherlandish painted copies in the Chimei Museum, with the aim of understanding the copyists’ production methods.
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Izanna Mulder - L’Atelier des Delâtre: Artisanal Experiments and Artistic Expertise Abstract: L'Atelier des Delâtre: Artisanal Experiments and Artistic Expertise is a study on an artistic printing house in Paris. Its owners, father and son Delâtre, had a great influence on developments in 19th- and 20th-century printmaking. The most important artists of the period - think of Picasso, Manet and Cassatt - had their etchings printed by the two printers and also learned themselves the different techniques. The more research is conducted on the atelier, the clearer it becomes that it played a key role in the developments within 19th and 20th-century printmaking as an artform. It is not just the exceptional artworks that have been created there, but also the fact that the realization of these creations could only come about through intense collaboration, in which the artist became a craftsman, and the craftsman became an artist. Bio: Izanna Mulder (MA Curating Art and Cultures) is a freelance curator/researcher and an art history lecturer at the ArtEZ Art Academy. She is currently researching the 19th and 20th century Parisian printing house of Auguste and Eugène Delâtre as an external PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Winning the Prix de Paris has granted her the opportunity to conduct archival research in Paris, exploring artist letters, prints and documents related to the atelier.
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Angela Cerasuolo, head of the conservation department of the Capodimonte Museum Napoli, presents: Conservation and technical study of paintings from the Capodimonte Museum: experiences and perspectives
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NICAS Project Day 2023

Irma de Vries on the Making of Missie Meesterwerk
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NICAS Project Day 2023

Amin Livani on Hygro-Mechanical Response of Oak Growth Rings to Varying Indoor Climate Conditions: A Combined Numerical and Experimental Study
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NICAS Project Day 2023

Gauthier Patin on the Importance of Data for the field of Cultural Heritage
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NICAS Project Day 2023

Joost Batenburg on Impact4Art: 3D Visualization of the Interior of Art Objects through CT Scans