Congress Programmes

You will find below the outline of the Congress week, and then the Provisional Technical Programme, giving the papers that are to be presented and then the list of posters to be displayed at the Congress.

Below this you will find the details of the Grand Dinner to be held on the Thursday, the Excursions, the Round Table Event and the post-Congress tours.

Outline Programme for the Congress Week

Monday, 10 September 2012

• 08.30 Registration opens, Hörsaalzentrum, Campus University of Vienna
• 09.30 Refreshments
• 11.00 Opening Ceremony
• 11.45 Forbes Prize Lecture
• 12.30 Lunch
• 13.00 Meeting of Grant Recipients
• 14.00 Presentations Session 1
• 17.30 End
• 18.30 Opening Reception at the KHM Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

• 09.00 Presentations Session 2
• 12.30 Lunch
• 12.45 IIC Fellowship Meeting
• 14.00 Presentations Session 3
• 17.30 End
• Free evening

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

• 09.00 “Backstage Tours” in Vienna
• 14.00 Excursion to the Klosterneuburg Abbey
• 17.00 Round Table Event at Klosterneuburg
• 19.00 Reception at Klosterneuburg

Thursday, 13 September 2012

• 09.00 Presentations Session 4
• 11.00 Poster Viewing Session
• 12.30 Lunch
• 13.00 Meeting of Student Delegates
• 13.00 Meeting of IIC Regional Group Representatives
• 14.00 Presentations Session 5
• 17.30 End
• 19.00 Grand Dinner at Vienna Rathaus – City Hall

Friday, 14 September 2012

• 09.00 Presentations Session 6
• 12.30 Lunch
• 14.00 Presentations Session 7
• 16.30 Keck Award Presentation
• Honorary Fellow Presentations
• Announcement of 2014 Venue
• 17.30 End of Technical Programme
• 18.30 Farewell Reception at the MAK Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art

Technical Programme [Provisional]

The papers and posters being presented in Vienna represent the breadth of the topic that is The Decorative: Conservation and the Applied Arts. The topic encompasses a huge range of objects, contexts, materials and analytical techniques and the conservation profession’s response to the topic was as enthusiastic as it is varied. There are common themes: analysis, research, recording and treatment assessments are typical feature together with issues of risk assessment, protection, maintenance, management and policy. The diversity of the contributions provides the opportunity for sharing problems and solutions across an extremely wide range of contexts.

Please note that this is a provisional programme and that titles may be updated for the final programme.

Papers

Ceramic rivet repair: history, technology and conservation approaches
- Kasi Albert
Decorative reverse painted glass objects from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries: an overview of the binding media
- Ursula Baumer, Irene Fiedler, Simone Bretz, Hans-Jörg Ranz and Patrick Dietemann
A new look at the figure of St Wenceslas from the St Vitus cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic
- Petr Justa, Tatjana Bayerová and Karol Bayer
Metal sarcophagi of the Habsburg imperial crypt in the church of the Capuchin Friars, Vienna: scientific analyses of surface coatings
- Tatjana Bayerová, Václav Pitthard, Martina Griesser and Martina Griesser-Stermscheg
Kitchen stories: Cuisine Atelier Le Corbusier, type 1
- Tim Bechthold and Julia Reischl,
Investigation and conservation of a panoramic wall paper Les Vues du Brésil from 1829
- Ulrike Brichzin and Christoph Herm
A room transposed: a technical and historical study of the King’s Room, Westwood Manor, Wiltshire, UK
- Aviva Burnstock, Christine Sitwell, Catherine Daunt and Sarah Freeman
Marcel Duchamp’s Boîtes-en-valise: collaboration and conservation
- Brenna Campbell, Élodie Lévèque and Erin Jue
Flames of desire: X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy for the analysis of decorations
- Francesca Casadio, Anikó Bezur, Kelly Domoney, Katherine Eremin, Lynn Lee, Jennifer L. Mass, Andrew Shortland and Nicholas Zumbulyadis
The conservation of two pietre dure and gilt-bronze mounted cabinets made by Domenico Cucci
- Yannick Chastang
Decorative art or art practice? The conservation of textiles in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq
- Anne-Marie Deisser and Lolan Sipan
Indigo carmine: behaviour of a problematic blue dye
- Matthijs de Keijzer, Maarten van Bommel, Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Regina Knaller and Edith Oberhumer
Design, digitisation, discovery: enhancing collection quality
- Dinah Eastop, Anna E. Bülow and Agnes W. Brokerhof
Characterisation and conservation of the decorative paint on seventeenth-century French and Flemish harpsichord soundboards
- Jean-Philippe Echard, Christine Laloue, Isabelle Chochod and Daniele Pipitone
Images can speak louder than words: communicating conservation effectively
- Kathryn Gill
Re-evaluation of French Renaissance furniture at the Frick Collection, New York, USA
- Joseph Godla
Peeling back the layers: Eileen Gray’s brick screens
- Roger Griffith, Margo Delidow and Chris McGlinchey
The conservation and mounting of very large painted wall-hangings
- Ursula Haller, Stephanie Hilden and Karin Krüger
Technical examination of enamels from the Botkin collection
- Eva Helfenstein, Katherine Eremin, Terry Drayman-Weisser, Glenn Gates, Philip; Klausmeyer, Richard Newman, Cathy Selvius DeRoo and Ian Freestone
Exposed and unseen: management of public immovable art
- Karin Hermerén and Henrik Orrje
The conservation of two baccarat crystal torchères at the Shangri La Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Stephen P. Koob and Linda Gué
A ‘once in a lifetime’ experience: ‘Conservation in Action’ for Thornhill’s wallpaintings at Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire, UK
- Katy Lithgow, Nicky Boden, Michelle Hill, Richard Lithgow and Kate Measures
Understanding silver hollow wares of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: is there a role for X-Ray fluorescence?
- Jennifer L. Mass and Catherine R. Matsen
The Umling painter-carpenter workshop in Transylvania
- Ferenc Mihály and Márta Guttmann
When Spain dictated fashion: a Hungarian lady’s richly decorated garment of late sixteenth- to early seventeenth-century date
- Andrea Várfalvi and Katalin E. Nagy
Scientific investigation and study of the sixteenth-century glass jewellery collection of Archduke Ferdinand II at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
- Eva Putzgruber, Marco Verità, Katharina Uhlir, Bernadette Frühmann, Martina Griesser and Gabriela Krist
Image analysis-aided light microscopy of glazed ceramics: identifying technological innovation and style
- Chandra L. Reedy
The Waldenburg Beakers and Johann Kunckel: analytical and technological study of four corner-cut coloured glasses
- W. Rainer Richter and Christian Neelmeijer
Featherwork – beyond decorative
- Renée Riedler, Ellen Pearlstein and Molly Gleeson
Zwischengoldglas: technology of production, material analyses and conservation
- Eva Rydlová and Ivana Kopecká
The treatment of Edvard Munch’s monumental sketches (1909–1916)
- Erika Gohde Sandbakken and Eva StorevikTveit
Purely decorative? Technical analysis of a fifteenth-century northern European parade shield
- Katy Sanders, Lynne Harrison, Catherine Higgitt and Christina Young
Connoisseurship, aesthetics and ethics: factors influencing the conservation of the decorative arts
- Sandra Smith, Alan Derbyshire and Victoria Oakley
Use it or lose it: the opportunities and challenges of bringing historic places to life
- Sarah Staniforth and Helen Lloyd
Underfoot and overlooked: conservation treatment of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British carpets in historic houses
- Heather Tetley
Lessons learned on the conservation of textiles with metal threads in the Esterházy collection
- Marta Toth
Faded glory: gemstone simulants and enhancements
- Joanna Whalley
Examination of the wall paintings in Tutankhamen’s tomb: inconsistencies in original technology
- Lori Wong, Stephen Rickerby, Amarilli Rava, Alan Phenix, Joy Mazurek, and Rasha Kamel
Tin relief on thirteenth-century Cypriot wall painting: technology and conservation
- Elizabeth Woolley, Jilleen Nadolny and Lisa Shekede

Posters

Conservation of Holy Sepulchres and Lenten veils in Tyrol
- Claudia Bachlechner, Gabriela Krist and Martin Kapferer
Treatment of efflorescent salts on twentieth-century frescoes in the Parliamentary Precinct, Ottawa, Canada
- Wendy Baker
Vandalism or artistic expression: street art on the Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Stefan Belishki
Conservation of a Portugese Renaissance limestone altarpiece by João de Ruão
- Ana Bidarra, Pedro Antunes, Teresa Desterro, João Coroado and Fernando Rocha
Conservation of the 1325 Evangeliar of Wiener Neustadt
- Emma Chan
Preservation of unique rare books using simple measures in Carnegie Library, Mauritius
- Roland Chan and Belinda T. K. Ramnauth,
Glittering decorative art: reflective Cantonese opera costumes
- Angela Cheung, Alice Tsang and Louise Sam
Comparison of tin relief applied to the Rakovník and Rokycany altarpiece paintings, Bohemia
- Štěpánka Chlumská, Miroslava Novotná and Radka Šefců
Portuguese painted furniture: religious furniture of the eighteenth century
- Daniela Coelho and Sandra Saraiva
Can graffiti be seen as a decorative art when its canvas is a historic wall?
- Vera De La Cruz Baltazar and Mayra Elitania Galan Villa
Discovery of two oil sketches by Egon Schiele
- Paul-Bernhard Eipper
Laser cleaning trials on a gilded and polychromed thirteenth-century ceiling using nanosecond and picosecond lasers
- Abdelrazek Elnaggar, Paul Fitzsimons, Austin Nevin, Iacopo Osticioli, Mona Ali and Ken Watkins
Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding ceramics from Islamic lands
- Katherine Eremin, Jessica Chloros, Robert Mason, Angela Chang, Henry Lie, Mary McWilliams, Anthony Sigel and Aysin Yoltar
Glass Induced Metal-corrosion on Museum Exhibits (GIMME project)
- Andrea Fischer, Astrid van Giffen and Gerhard Eggert
Conservation of oversize Chinese paintings on silk
- David Frank and Jarmila Frankova,
From Babylon to Berlin: conservation history and ongoing maintenance of the Ishtar Gate, the Processional Way and Throne Room façade
- Vanessa Frieden, Sonja Radujkovic, Dunja Rütt and Anette Schulz
Edvard Munch’s Aula frieze: conservation strategies to influence attitudes of the public
- Tine Frøysaker, Karen Mengshoel and Hanne Moltubakk Kempton
The Roman wall paintings of Terrace House 2 in Ephesos, Turkey
- Savina Gianoli, Giovanna Fulgoni, Francesca Ghizzoni, Sabrina Salvatori and Johannes Weber
Artefacts attributed to Martin Schnell in the Wilanow collection, Poland: multidisciplinary research
- Anna Guzowska
Revelations of color in the marquetry of J. F. Oeben
- Arlen Heginbotham, Heinrich Piening, Clara Von Engelhardt, Cecily Grzywacz, Gary Hughes and Michael Smith
Salon of the Swiss House, Zagreb, Croatia
- Romana Jagić, Siniša Cvetković and Srebrenka Bogović
Conservation of a 1926 Artizan A2 Military Band Carousel Organ
- Richard. L. Kerschner and Nancie Ravenel,
Eighteenth-century exterior decorative lime plaster in Mexico City, Mexico
- Yuko Kita, Gonzalo J. Fructuoso Hernández, Matsui Toshiya, Luis Torres Montes and Manuel Reyes García
Gold embroidery on Greek Orthodox textiles: techniques and conservation
- Tatiana Kousoulou
Analysis of pigments on a nineteenth-century calligrapher's box
- Filiz Kuvvetli, Çinar Öncel, Alpay Taralp, Nurçin Kural Özgörüş and Ayşe Aldemir Kilercik
Traditional Chinese mounting styles and presentation techniques of scrolls
- Wai-Sum (Angela) Liu
A perfect copy: analysis of the earliest electrotype artefacts
- Valentina Ljubic and Wolfgang Kautek
Klimt cartoons for the Mosaic Frieze in the Dining Hall of Stoclet House, Brussels, Belgium
- Michael Melcher, Wilfried Vetter, Shuya Wei, Beate Murr and Manfred Schreiner
Historic gold mosaics: composition and deterioration
- Martina Raedel
Mosaic conservation planning and implementation at the site of Bulla Regia, Tunisia
- Thomas Roby, Leslie Friedman, Livia Alberti, Cristina Caldi, Ermanno Carbonara and Moheddine Chaouali
Coronation Chair: the history of a nation
- Marie Louise Sauerberg, Lara Broecke, Ray Marchant and Alison Stock
H Siddons Mowbray and the Huntington Commission: understanding and interpretation of a pioneer of the American Mural Movement
- Cynthia Schwarz
The conservation of the Gothic choir stalls, Zadar Cathedral, Dalmatia
- Ksenija Škarić
Norway’s Constitutional Assembly Hall at Eidsvoll Manor: an improvised colour scheme of 1814
- Kristin Solberg, Edwin Verweij and Geir Thomas Risåsen
Technical study of Persian mural painting materials in three Ikhanid monuments, Yazd, Iran
- Shishehbori Tahereh, Hamid Farahmand Boroujeni and Abbas Abede Idfahani
Analysis of admixed grounds used for medieval Urushi in Japan
- Akiko Takeda, Hideo Akanuma and Nobutaka Tsuchiya
Porcelain conservation: recent research for optimising the appearance of bonding and retouching
- Norman H. Tennent, Lisya Bicaci, Nicky Dowsett, Hossein Izadan, Kate van Lookeren, James Nobbs, Lina Pak,and Marjke Top,
'Digital restoration' of lost Greek furniture, using surviving archaeological artifacts
- Dimitris Tsipotas and Christoforos Michalaros
Latvian headdresses: analysis and conservation
- Indra Tuna and Indra Saulesleja
Chinese pictorial screens: an investigation of nineteenth-century glass cane panels
- N. Astrid R. van Giffen and Florian Knothe
Conservation and scientific studies of nineteenth- to twentieth-century Balkan jewellery
- Quanyu Wang and Maickel van Bellegem

Receptions and Grand Dinner

The opening and the farewell reception of the Congress will by hosted by two of the most splendid musuems of Vienna, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the MAK, the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, both situated along the imperial Ringstraße.
The Grand Congress Dinner will take you to the palatial Wappensäle suite of the Vienna Rathaus, another highlight of the magnificent Ringstraße "Historism" architecture.
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Excursions, the Round Table and post-congress tours

On the Wednesday morning a series of visits, the “Backstage Tours”, that allow conservators to talk to conservators on specific topics in very special locations in Vienna are offered.
On the Wednesday afternoon, the congress excursion will take you to the Abbey of Klosterneuburg, where the Round Table event will also take place later in the afternoon.
After the congress week four different post-congress tours have been organised to places of interest in Austria and its neighbouring countries, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
Read more here.