The IIC 2006 Munich Congress

Keeping it together: conservation, context and cultural materials

Annlinn Kruger Grossman

Christian sacred art: a conservation challenge

António Ribeiro da Costa

Finding the fallen: conservation and the First World War

Renata Peters and Dean Sully

Context and meaning generation: the conservation of garments deliberately concealed within buildings

Dinah Eastop and Charlotte Dew

The Tate brand: its consequences for the care and presentation of Tate collections

Jacqueline Ridge

The conservator in context: crossing curatorial boundaries

Caroline Buttler and Mary Davis

Vision of the Sermon by Paul Gauguin: an exploration of making and meaning

Lesley Stevenson and Belinda Thomson

Paintings are made of paint: the exhibition of painting techniques in the Munich Glaspalast, 1893

Kathrin Kinseher

“…I came to understand how to translate nature into colour according to the fire of my soul”: Alexej Jawlensky’s painting technique in his Munich oeuvre

Ulrike Fischer, Heike Stege, Daniel Oggenfuss, Cornelia Tilenschi, Susanne Willisch and Iris Winkelmeyer

Commedia dell’Arte: when Chagall went to Frankfurt

Snejanka Bauer and Maria Kokkori

Dictated by media: conservation and technical analysis of a 1938 Joan Miró canvas painting

Elma O’Donoghue, Ashley M. Johnson, Joy Mazurek, Frank Preusser, Michael Schilling and Marc S. Walton

Asking for the context: conservation strategy for Joseph Beuys’ The End of the Twentieth Century

Maike Grün

Industrial heritage conservation: the historic diesel power station in Wustermark

Thomas Dempwolf

Contextualizing textiles: using documentary evidence to retrieve evidence for regenerated protein fibres

Mary M. Brooks and Mary Rose

Complementing art history: interpreting sheet metal and light bulbs

Martina Griesser-Stermscheg

The Berlin Aleppo Room: a view into a Syrian interior from the Ottoman Empire

Jutta Maria Schwed

From cosmopolitan Italy to rural Dorset: The Separation of Night from Day by Guido Reni, 1599

Christine Leback Sitwell, Alan Bush and Jonathan Berry

French genre painting for the king: masterpieces by Lancret and Watteau in Prussian palaces

Christoph Martin Vogtherr, Eva Wenders de Calisse, Mechthild Most and Jens Bartoll

The Mimbres journey: how shifting contexts necessitate a multi-disciplinary conservation approach

Mina Thompson and Angela Elliott

The role of context in the conservation of contemporary American Indian ceramics

Jessica Fletcher, Carl Patterson, Nancy Blomberg and Polly Nordstrand

Conservation of a Maori eel trap: practical and ethical issues

Catherine Smith and Heike Winkelbauer

Tjurkulpa: a conservator learns respect for the Land, the People and the Culture

Andrew Thorn

Gamelan: can a conservation-conceived protocol protect it spiritually and physically in a museum?

Holly Jones-Amin, Heidi Tan and Alvin Tee

Multiple functions and multiple histories of Tibetan tsha-tshas (votive clay images)

Chandra L. Reedy

Challenges in the context of the living sacred tradition of Mahayana Buddhism

Sanjay Dhar

Contextual change and the conservation of wall paintings: the case of Korean Buddhist temples

Kyeongsoon Han and Sujeong Lee

The Maya site of Calakmul: in situ preservation of wall paintings and limestone using nanotechnology

Piero Baglioni, Ramón Carrasco Vargas, David Chelazzi, Marinés Colón González, Alice Desprat and Rodorico Giorgi

Stone armor 2200 years ago: early mass production methods in China

Sandra Bucher Fiuza, Duan Qingbo and Wang Dongfeng

A colourful world for the Emperor’s soul: the polychromy of the terracotta sculptures at Qin Shihuang’s burial complex

Catharina Blänsdorf and Xia Yin

Modern trends: ancient patterns

Mary Davis

A Pouring Satyr from Castel Gandolfo: history and conservation

Erik Risser and Jens Daehner

LACMA’s classical sculpture collection considered – again

Batyah Shtrum

Illuminating a complex history: the materials and techniques of the tombs of Urgell at The Cloisters

Beth M. Edelstein, Silvia A. Centeno and Mark T. Wypyski

The preservation and display of a fourth-century BCE painted Thracian tomb in Bulgaria

Zdravko Barov, Veneta Groudeva, Maria Karazlateva, Kitan Kitanov and Todor Marinov

The relationship between preservation and technique in paintings in the Oranjezaal

Annelies van Loon, Lidwien Speleers, Ester Ferreira, Katrien Keune and Jaap Boon

Varnishes on Baroque church furnishings: in search of a suitable conservation approach

Katharina Walch-von Miller, Ursula Baumer and Johann Koller

Case studies of eighteenth-century polychromy and metal leaf gilding in Bavaria

Inga Pelludat

Proscribed pigments in northern European Renaissance paintings and the case of Paris red

Jo Kirby, David Saunders and Marika Spring

Artists’ pigments reconsidered: does modern science match the historical context?

Christoph Krekel, Ursula Haller and Andreas Burmester

Skokloster castle and its environment

Jan Holmberg, Bengt Kylsberg and Per Nelander

Nomenclatura et species colorum miniatae picturae: researching seventeenth-century pigments in Sweden

Cecilia Rönnerstam and Lars Hälldahl

The Mariani-Cibo treatise: contents and context

Erma Hermens

New Age Old Masters

Spike Bucklow

Appliqué stained glass: the conflict between conservation and context

Norman H. Tennent

The context and conservation of patent metamorphic furniture 1780-1820

Clive Edwards

A cross-cultural approach to Urushi conservation: consolidation of metal foil decoration on the Mazarin chest

Shayne Rivers and Yoshihiko Yamashita

Conservation and continuity: preserving the library of the Monastery of Saint Catharine on Mount Sinai

Nicholas Pickwoad and Athanasios Velios

Poster summaries