Multiples in Pre-Modern Art
International symposium, Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Center for Advanced Studies, Organization: Dr. Walter Cupperi, CAS Research Fellow
07.11.2011 – 08.11.2011
Time: 7-8 November, 2011- Location: Center for Advanced Studies, Seestraße 13
This symposium will explore the different facets and forms of the serial production of artefacts from antiquity to the eighteenth century. More specifically, it will focus on works of art that were made in virtually identical multiple versions using procedures that conferred a high degree of uniformity on them. Particular emphasis will be given to the process through which the making, provenance, sale, as well as context of pre-modern multiples affected their reception.
How, and in what measure, did the serial nature of works of art influence their reception? To what extent were authorship, context and processes of production important in shaping the cultural status of the artefacts made in more than one original?
PROGRAM
MONDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2011
- 10.00-10.15:
Ulrich Pfisterer, Walter Cupperi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
Greetings and opening
Session Chair: Rolf M. Schneider (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
- 10.15-11.00: Miranda Marvin (Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.):
In the Roman Empire an aura was a breeze - 11.00-11.45: Andreas Grüner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München):
Antike Reproduktionsmedien. Münzen, Siegel und Stempel zwischen Serialität und Authentizität
11.45-12.15 Coffee Pause
Session Chair: Avinoam Shalem (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
- 12.15-13.00: Beate Fricke (University of California, Berkeley):
«C´est la copie collacionnee a vray original…» - Nachahmung und Alterität bei der Entstehung des Maleremails - 13.00-13.45: Urte Krass (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München):
Corporate Identity im Heiligenkult des Quattrocento: Das vervielfältigte Gesicht des Antonino Pierozzi von Florenz
13.45-15.00 Buffet Lunch
Session Chair: Urte Krass (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
- 15.00-15.45: Christopher J. Nygren (University of Pennsylvania):
Titian’s Icons: Repetition, Innovation, and the Production of Presence - 15.45-16.30: Susanne Kubersky (Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom):
« …et sia ritratto nella forma medesima» – Das Florentiner Gnadenbild der SS. Annunziata und seine Repliken
16.30-17.00: Coffee Pause
Session Chair: Claudia Kryza-Gersch (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien)
- 17.00-17.45: Walter Cupperi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München):
«Once the main models were made, you could have cast two hundred specimens of them»: Portrait Busts at the Court of Charles V of Habsburg
19.00: Dinner
TUESDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2011
Session Chair: Matteo Burioni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
- 9.30-10.15: Claudia Kryza-Gersch (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien):
«Una Venere simile... a quella del Signor Cesarini». Einige Beobachtungen zum Sammeln von Kleinbronzen im 16. Jahrhundert - 10.15-11.00: Marjorie Trusted (Victoria and Albert Museum, London):
The Same but Different: Baroque Ivories and Reproduction
11.00-11.30: Coffee Pause
Session Chair: Ulrich Pfisterer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
- 11.30-12.15: Malcolm C. Baker (University of California, Riverside):
Replication, Authorship and the Eighteenth-century Portrait Bust’s Aura - 12.15-13.00: Charlotte Schreiter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
«Die Stärken des Althertumes in der Sculptur sich zu vervielfältigen» - Material, Technik und Kontext großformatiger Antikenkopien am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts
13.00-14.15: Buffet Lunch
Session Chair: Hubertus Kohle (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
- 14.15-15.00: Frank Fehrenbach (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.):
«Infiniti figliuoli». Leonardo und das Problem der Reproduktion - 15.00-15.45: Matthias Krüger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München):
Tanagra - oder die Multiples des Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
15.45-16.15: Coffee Pause
Session Chair: Walter Cupperi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
- 16.15-17.00: Birthe Rieger (Kunsthochschule der Universität Kassel):
Das galvanische Bad als Jungbrunnen der Reproduktionsgraphik? Ambivalente Facetten der galvanoplastischen Vervielfältigung von Druckplatten
17.00-17.30: Closing discussion
17.30-18.30: Reception
Organizer:
Dr. Walter Cupperi
Research Fellow
Institut für Kunstgeschichte,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
walter.cupperi@lmu.de
premodern.multiples@googlemail.com
Please note that there is limited seating capacity: registration is not compulsory, but warmly appreciated. Please register with info@cas.lmu.de or 089/2180-72080
by October 31st, 2011. Admission is free.