PRESENTATION
The Colloquium follows the International Congress Souls of Stone – Funerary Sculpture: from Creation to Musealization, held in November 2017, at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, in Lisbon, in so far as it seeks to continue the international and interdisciplinary debate on medieval funerary heritage. |
The Colloquium Interventions in Memory will bring together, by invitation, national and international specialists, chosen for the quality of their work and for having undertaken research relevant to the subject of the event. We foresee the participation of scholars from Portugal, Italy, Spain, France and England.
The Colloquium will focus on interventions made in relation to certain medieval funerary projects during the modern era, assessing the impact of those actions both on the materiality of tombs and on the interpretations they have prompted. This analysis may include manipulations of different kinds, from restorations to dislocations/decontextualizations.
The Colloquium will focus on interventions made in relation to certain medieval funerary projects during the modern era, assessing the impact of those actions both on the materiality of tombs and on the interpretations they have prompted. This analysis may include manipulations of different kinds, from restorations to dislocations/decontextualizations.
The interventions under analysis may correspond to different moments within a wide chronology (15th-20th centuries), and may also include different kinds of actions, sometimes real manipulations which have interfered with the funerary projects, with the materiality of the works and/or with the way they have been read.
This way we will not only be (re)discovering specific processes of intervention on certain medieval funerary sculptures, but also thinking about the evolution of the very theory and practice of restoration and of the relationship of modern thinkers with the Middle Ages. |
Our aim is to contribute to a broad discussion on medieval heritage, from a specific perspective that is often neglected in the study of funerary art. This is a debate necessary not only for a serious critical interpretation, both historical and aesthetic, of the funerary monuments, but also for the conservation, appreciation, and, in certain cases, musealization of these objects of memory and identity.
Besides the panels of invited speakers, the Colloquium will be opened, through a Call for Posters, to a selected group of researchers who wish to present their researches in relation with the subject and the goals of the event, by means of posters (gathered in an public exhibition) and of a short oral presentation, delivered in a specific session.
Besides the panels of invited speakers, the Colloquium will be opened, through a Call for Posters, to a selected group of researchers who wish to present their researches in relation with the subject and the goals of the event, by means of posters (gathered in an public exhibition) and of a short oral presentation, delivered in a specific session.