Call for Papers

Ceiling Painting around 1700: Public and Private Devotion in the
Towns of Central Europe and North Italy

International Conference,
Slovenia, Ljubljana, October 16-18, 2008

Organized by the France Stele Institute of Art History (UIFS ZRC
SAZU, www.uifs.zrc-sazu.si), Ljubljana, Slovenia,
and the
Research Group for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe (BCPCE,
http://baroque_ceiling.udu.cas.cz/index.html)

Organization committee:
- Frank Büttner, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilian-
Universität München and Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Munich
- Martin Mádl, Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic, Prague
- Barbara Murovec, France Stele Institute of Art History, Scientific
Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
- Werner Telesko, Kommission für Kunstgeschichte, Österreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna

The conference will discuss, on interdisciplinary level, the
function, manifestations and context of sacred ceiling painting in
towns and cities. Besides art historians, also researchers in other
branches of the humanities are kindly invited to participate,
particularly those from the fields of theology and ecclesiastical
history.
Most welcome will be papers that fall within different thematic
groups related to religious ceiling painting from around the year
1700, such as the issues of the aristocracy and the Church - within
this context especially the religious orders - as patrons of
religious ceiling paintings in towns; ceiling paintings in sacred
buildings; religious ceiling paintings in secular buildings; theology
and iconography; worship of the saints; Marian iconography; literary
and visual sources; painting programmes and their reception; etc.

Particularly topical questions: the place and function of a sacred
space in secular architecture (understanding the decorations in
chapels with regard to diversified functions of the inner structures
of palaces and chateaux); iconography of the sacred space within the
context of secular architecture (motifs of ceiling decorations of
palace and chateau chapels); decorations of town churches in view of
theological and liturgical aspects; qualitative aspects of
decorations in sacred spaces with regard to social function of a
public space; between religion and propaganda - decorations of town
churches of different religious orders, cathedrals, town churches and
chapels.

Presentations will also be considered for publication.

Please submit the titles and abstracts not exceeding 400 words (for
presentations not longer than 20 minutes in English, Italian or
German) by 15th April 2008 to Barbara Murovec, France Stele Institute
of Art History, Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, Box 306, Novi trg 2, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia,
email: BaMuroveczrc-sazu.si.

The Organization Committee will prepare a preliminary programme by
15th May 2008 and inform the interested.

Concurrently, the IIIrd International Meeting of the Research Group
for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe will be held in
Ljubljana.