International Symposium on Polychromy Studies: Archaeology of Colour – The Production of polychromy in sculpture up to the 16th century
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023
This symposium, to be held online, is organized within the scope of the project Archaeology of Colour (PTDC/ART-OUT/5992/2020), a project dedicated to studying the polychromy of medieval and early modern Portuguese sculpture. The symposium aims to engage scholars from different fields to enrich our understanding of the production of polychromy in sculpture up to the 16th century.
Communications on subjects related to the production of polychromy on different technologies, geographies, and chronologies are welcome:
- Materials and Techniques
- Documentation
- The meanings of colour
- Circulation of materials, techniques, artists, and artworks
- Experimental Archaeology
- Knowledge transmission among neighbourhood technologies, chronologies, and geographies
- Novel techniques and scientific approaches for studying polychromy
- Material/Digital reconstructions of past appearances – technical challenges, experience on the public’s response, etc.
Papers will be published in a special issue of Conservar Património a peer-reviewed Open Access journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. For more information visit the symposium website.