Expert Meeting Program
Venue: Slovak National Gallery, entrance: administration building (Riečna 1, Bratislava)
Wednesday 11 October (19:00):
Welcome drink offered by the Slovak National Gallery
Thursday 12 October: Seminar
8:30 – 9:00 COFFEE offered by SNG
9:00 - WELCOMING WORD: Dr. Dušan Buran – Senior Curator of the Slovak National Gallery
Morning Chair: Prof. Geert Van der Snickt
9:15-9:45 Dr. Martin Stefanik, Slovak Academy of Sciences - Department of Medieval History
Mining towns and trade in Slovakia in the Late Middle Ages
9:45-10:15 Dr. Marika Spring – National Gallery London
Copper sulphate pigments in the collection of the National Gallery London
10:15 – 10:45 Drs. Nina Deleu – University of Antwerp
Combined in-situ MA-XRPD and cross-section SR-μ-XRPD imaging for the study of CSPs in Flemish Renaissance art
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK offered by SNG
11:15-11:45 Marianna Golemova – Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels
Use of copper sulphate pigments and spherulitic malachite in 16th c. polychromed sculptures and wall paintings from Slovakia
11:45-12:15 Dr. Sara Valadas, Hercules Laboratory, University of Évora (online)
Copper sulphate pigments in the work of Frei Carlos Workshop
12:15-12:45 Dr. Paola Ricciardi – The Natural History Museum, London (online)
Copper sulphate pigments in illuminated manuscripts and other parchment-based objects
12:45-13:45 LUNCH offered by SNG
Afternoon Chair: Dr. Dušan Buran
13:45-14:00 Koenraad Van de Borne - Diplomatic Representative of Flanders in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia
Flanders State of the Art
14:00-14:30 Dr. Silvie Švarcová, ALMA Laboratory, Czech Academy of Sciences
Variety of mineral-type copper pigments and their conjoint occurrence in historical paints
14:30-15:00 Prof. Stanislav Jelen, Matej Bel University
Mineralogy of secondary copper minerals from deposits around Banská Bystrica
15:00-15:30 Dr. Gunnar Heydenreich, TH Köln
Malachite and other pigments from Špania Dolina
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK offered by SNG
16:00-16:30 Dr. Miroslav Lacko, Friedrich-Christian-Lesser-Kolleg für Ostmitteleuropa, FSU Jena
Copper Pigment Production from the Late Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century in the Banská
Bystrica Mining District
16:30-17:00 Dr. Arie Pappot, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Chemical fingerprints of Slovakian copper types and their trade and use over time
17:00-18:00 CLOSING REMARKS and round table discussion guided by Dr. Jana Sanyova
18:00 Guided tour through the SNG Museum
19:30 DINNER offered by SNG
Friday 13 October: Field trip
Visit to the 'Andreas mine' in Ľubietová and the 'Ivan mine' and Múzeum Medi (Copper Museum) in Špania Dolina.
The Expert Meeting on CSPs and SM was co-organised by Prof. Geert Van der Snickt and Drs Nina Deleu (University of Antwerp, ARCHES group) and Jana Sanyova (KIK-IRPA) and generously hosted by the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava. We thank the Flanders State of the Art Program for its valued support.
