The Multiple Lives of Pompeii. Surfaces and Environments

This Conference is organized within the framework of "Pompeii Arch&Lab", a research project of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik IBP in Holzkirchen and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, in collaboration with the Parco Archeologico di Pompei.


Pompeii's unique and tragic history has attracted scholarly attention over the centuries, but the widespread interest in this city must be sought not only in its ancient life, but also in its 270 years of modern life as well as in the enormous effort its preservation has required (and still requires), to the point that the site can be considered the ongoing product of a long history of excavation and a large number of restorations, reconstructions, and museological reconfigurations.

The conference will explore the many lives of Pompeii – ancient and modern, on-site and in museums, real and imaginary – in their dialectical and osmotic relationship. The focus lies on surfaces and environments: two different physical, spatial, and conceptual dimensions of the city which are simultaneously opposites and complementary.


PROGRAM

MONDAY 19 NOVEMBER

10.00
Welcome and introduction
Massimo Osanna, Klaus Sedlbauer, Gerhard Wolf

EXCAVATION, PERCEPTION, AND RESTORATION HISTORY
Chair: Gerhard Wolf

10.30
Da Tanucci a Fiorelli. Proposte e domande per una nuova storia degli scavi borbonici di Pompei
Valentin Kockel

11.00
Guerra, memoria e restauro a Pompei. Amedeo Maiuri e la riparazione dei danni bellici
Renata Picone

11.30 Coffee break

12.00
Sexcapes: Pompeii as a city of love
Annette Haug

12.30
Life cycles ancient and modern: a comprehensive project on the lighting devices in bronze from the Vesuvian cities
Ruth Bielfeldt

13.00
Colors and daylight in Pompeii: how light affects colors and colors affect light
Laura Bellia


HERITAGE PRESERVATION, MATERIAL SCIENCE, AND PLASTER SURFACES
Chair: Ralf Kilian

15.00
Archaeometric studies of ancient mortars and mineral pigments in Pompeii
Domenico Miriello et al.

15.30
Historic edging repairs of Pompeii: characterization and performance
Edith Aichinger

16.00
Digital Image Analysis of historic conservation mortars as a basis for reconstruction
Lea Oetinger

16.30 Coffee break

17.00
Surface decorations and decay – a possibility for their preservation
Monica Martelli Castaldi / Marta Ebbreo / Giulia Russo

17.30
Balancing preventive and active conservation to manage the decay of plaster surfaces at the Via Nucerina funerary monuments
Martin Michette

20.30 Presentation: The Herculaneum Gate environment
Gabriella Cianciolo / Pia Kastenmeier / Katrin Wilhelm


TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER

RECEPTION, MUSEALIZATION, AND ART HISTORICAL DISCOURSE
Chair: Gabriella Cianciolo

10.00
Affresco, "fresco in acquerella", o tempera? Ipotesi settecentesche sulla tecnica esecutiva delle pitture murali ercolanesi
Paola D'Alconzo

10.30
Pompei: il dibattito sul colore nell'Ottocento e oltre
Fabio Mangone / Andrea Maglio

11.00 Gli ambienti e le superfici pompeiane nei disegni degli architetti francesi. Osservazioni dirette e sguardi mediati
Massimiliano Savorra

11.30 Coffee break

12.00
Storicismo e filologia nei giardini di Pompei fra XIX e XX secolo
Luigi Gallo

12.30
Dal grande Museo al racconto delle piccole storie: il museo diffuso da Spinazzola alla contemporaneità
Luana Toniolo


POMPEII TODAY
Chair: Pia Kastenmeier

14.00
Pompei tra stratigrafia vulcanica e azione umana. Vecchi e nuovi dati
Massimo Osanna / Alberta Martellone

14.30
La conservazione delle superfici non decorate a Pompei. Il cantiere storico per l'attualità
Mariarosaria Villani

15.00
Il cantiere di restauro delle Terme Centrali tra ricerca e valorizzazione
Alberta Martellone / Annamaria Mauro

15.30
Indagini conoscitive nei cantieri di messa in sicurezza
Annamaria Mauro

16.00
Comment and final discussion
Felix Pirson


VENUE
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
Via dei Servi 51
50122 Florence / Italy


CONTACT
Gabriella Cianciolo
gabriella.cianciolokhi.fi.it

Pia Kastenmeier
pia.kastenmeierkhi.fi.it

Gerhard Wolf
dirwolfkhi.fi.it


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