Event
Piero della Francesca
The Augustinian polyptych: new research
7 MAY 2024 | 10 A.M. – 6 P.M.
Orangery Room and live streaming
On the occasion of the exhibition Piero della Francesca. The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited.
PROGRAM
10.00 – Welcome
Alessandra Quarto (museum director)
Nathaniel Silver (co-curator of the exhibition)
Moderation
Machtelt Brüggen Israëls (co-curator of the exhibition)
10.05 – Introduction
James R. Banker (North Carolina State University)
10.15 – The exhibition on the Augustinian polyptych held at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in 1996
Andrea Di Lorenzo (curator of the 1996 exhibition)
10.45 – New diagnostic studies on St. Nicholas of Tolentino
Isabella Castiglioni, Marco Gargano, Federica Pozzi, Matteo Interlenghi
(Universitä degli Studi di Milano e Milano Bicocca. Centro per la Conservazione ed il Restauro dei Beni Culturali “La Venaria Reale”, DeepTrace Technologies)
11.15 – Coffee
11.45 – Investigating St. Michael’s: from fragment to polyptycho
Rachel Billinge, Jill Dunkerton, Helen Howard (The National Gallery, London)
12.30 – The project of the 2024 exhibition
Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
Break
14.30 – Mural painting: some reflections on painting technique in the Legend of the True Cross and the Resurrection
Paola Ilaria Mariotti (Regional directorate museums of Tuscany)
15.00 – Piero della Francesca artist in Leon Battista Alberti’s system of arts
Rossella Cavigli (Regional directorate museums of Tuscany)
15.30 – Coffee
16.00 – The polyptych of St. Anthony: some new considerations in light of the latest diagnostic investigations
Maria Cristina Tomassetti (Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria)
16.30 – The Misericordia polyptych: dismemberment and attempts at reconstruction
Ciro Castelli (già Opificio delle Pietre Dure)
17.00 – In search of unified perspective spatiality: Piero della Francesca and the Augustinian polyptych
Alessandro Angelini (Università degli Studi di Siena)
17.30 – Round table discussion
conducted by Emanuela Daffra (Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence)
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