Irene Parenti Duclos: A Work Restored, an Artist Revealed
Tribuna del David, Accademia Gallery, Florence
Begins:
Monday, October 24, 2011
Ends:
Monday, October 24, 2011 Lecture series/Presentation
IRENE PARENTI DUCLOS
a Work Restored – an Artist Revealed
October 24, 2011, 9.30am – 12.30pm
Tribuna del David, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence
PROGRAM
9.00am
Registration of participants
9.30pm
WELCOME AND OPENING
Event Chair: ANNAMARIA GIUSTI, Galleria dell’Arte Moderna, Director
INTRODUCTION
CRISTINA ACIDINI, Superintendent for Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and Florence’s Polo Museale,
and ad interim for the Opificio delle Pietre Dure
FRANCA FALLETTI, Galleria dell’Accademia, Director
BOOK PRESENTATION
BEGINNING OF LECTURE SERIES
10.00am
DUCLOS AND HER ERA: THE LORENA’S CULTURAL POLICY, EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTIONS AND THE GRAND TOUR
ANNARITA CAPUTO, Art historian specialized in XIXX century art
10.30am
FLORENTINE GENIUS: A PERSPECTIVE ON NATIVE FLORENTINE WOMEN PAINTERS
JANE FORTUNE, philanthropist and writer with an honorary degree, Founder and chair of the Advancing Women
Artists Foundation.
11.00am
A REVERENT REVOLUTION: DUCLOS, THE COPY OF MADONNA DEL SACCO AND FLORENTINE ENLIGHTENMENT
SHEILA BARKER, Art historian, director of the Jane Fortune Research Program on women in the age of the Medici, part
of the Medici Archive Project.
11.30am
THE RESTORATION AND COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DUCLOS’S COPY AND ANDREA DEL SARTO’S FRESCO
ROSSELLA LARI, restorer
>> SCREENING OF A VIDEO SPOTLIGHTING THE RESTORATION
12.00pm
SPECTROSCOPY AND MICROSCOPIC ANALYSES: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES USED BY PAINTER IRENE DUCLOS
SUSANNA BRACCI and DONATA MAGRINI, Researchers for the National Research Council’s Institute for Conservation and
Promotion of Cultural Heritage
12.30pm Press conference. Please join us for a cocktail following the event.
