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

