Matching couples

Artworks and the meaningful connections among their parts

Workshop international – 20 mai 2026

Paris, Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France

Palais du Louvre – Porte des Lions, 14 quai François Mitterrand

 

10.00: welcome and opening

Maddalena Bellavitis (C2RMF), Domitilla Giordano, TBC

10.15: presentations

Helen Buddensieg, Princely Collections Liechtenstein, Vienna

Inseparable Couple: Correggio’s Madonna of Saint Sebastian and its Wooden Support

 

Andrea Steckerová, National Gallery, Prague

Celebrating marriage in a frame: Gerard ter Borch’s portraits and their carved frames from the National Gallery in Prague

 

Charlene Vella, University of Malta

Framing Style and Patronage in the Work of Antonio de Saliba: Two Case Studies

11.30: coffee break

Michele Castelli, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

The frame as setting: The Master of the Baroncelli Portraits in the Uffizi Gallery

 

Vittorio Frighetto, Università di Padova

Through the Altarpiece, and What the Devout Found There:

Material and Cognitive Experience of Dieric Bouts’ Triptych of the Holy Sacrament

 

Martin Hanßen, University of Jena

Rethinking the Frame. Structure and Materiality of the Life of the Virgin

13.15: Discussion and conclusions

The admission is free, but those who wish to attend the workshop need to send their name to maddalena.bellavitis@culture.gouv.fr

 

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