This Conference is organized within the framework of "Pompeii Arch&Lab", a research project of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik IBP in Holzkirchen and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, in collaboration with the Parco Archeologico di Pompei.
Pompeii's unique and tragic history has attracted scholarly attention over the centuries, but the widespread interest in this city must be sought not only in its ancient life, but also in its 270 years of modern life as well as in the enormous effort its preservation has required (and still requires), to the point that the site can be considered the ongoing product of a long history of excavation and a large number of restorations, reconstructions, and museological reconfigurations.
The conference will explore the many lives of Pompeii – ancient and modern, on-site and in museums, real and imaginary – in their dialectical and osmotic relationship. The focus lies on surfaces and environments: two different physical, spatial, and conceptual dimensions of the city which are simultaneously opposites and complementary.
PROGRAM
MONDAY 19 NOVEMBER
10.00: Welcome and introduction, Massimo Osanna, Klaus Sedlbauer, Gerhard Wolf
EXCAVATION, PERCEPTION, AND RESTORATION HISTORY
Chair: Gerhard Wolf
10.30: Da Tanucci a Fiorelli. Proposte e domande per una nuova storia degli scavi borbonici di Pompei, Valentin Kockel
11.00: Guerra, memoria e restauro a Pompei. Amedeo Maiuri e la riparazione dei danni bellici, Renata Picone
11.30 Coffee break
12.00: Sexcapes: Pompeii as a city of love, Annette Haug
12.30: Life cycles ancient and modern: a comprehensive project on the lighting devices in bronze from the Vesuvian cities, Ruth Bielfeldt
13.00: Colors and daylight in Pompeii: how light affects colors and colors affect light, Laura Bellia
HERITAGE PRESERVATION, MATERIAL SCIENCE, AND PLASTER SURFACES
Chair: Ralf Kilian
15.00: Archaeometric studies of ancient mortars and mineral pigments in Pompeii, Domenico Miriello et al.
15.30: Historic edging repairs of Pompeii: characterization and performance, Edith Aichinger
16.00: Digital Image Analysis of historic conservation mortars as a basis for reconstruction, Lea Oetinger
16.30 Coffee break
17.00
Surface decorations and decay – a possibility for their preservation
Monica Martelli Castaldi / Marta Ebbreo / Giulia Russo
17.30
Balancing preventive and active conservation to manage the decay of plaster surfaces at the Via Nucerina funerary monuments
Martin Michette
20.30 Presentation: The Herculaneum Gate environment, Gabriella Cianciolo / Pia Kastenmeier / Katrin Wilhelm
TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER
RECEPTION, MUSEALIZATION, AND ART HISTORICAL DISCOURSE
Chair: Gabriella Cianciolo
10.00: Affresco, "fresco in acquerella", o tempera? Ipotesi settecentesche sulla tecnica esecutiva delle pitture murali ercolanesi, Paola D'Alconzo
10.30
Pompei: il dibattito sul colore nell'Ottocento e oltre
Fabio Mangone / Andrea Maglio
11.00 Gli ambienti e le superfici pompeiane nei disegni degli architetti francesi. Osservazioni dirette e sguardi mediati
Massimiliano Savorra
11.30 Coffee break
12.00: Storicismo e filologia nei giardini di Pompei fra XIX e XX secolo, Luigi Gallo
12.30: Dal grande Museo al racconto delle piccole storie: il museo diffuso da Spinazzola alla contemporaneità, Luana Toniolo
POMPEII TODAY
Chair: Pia Kastenmeier
14.00: Pompei tra stratigrafia vulcanica e azione umana. Vecchi e nuovi dati, Massimo Osanna / Alberta Martellone
14.30: La conservazione delle superfici non decorate a Pompei. Il cantiere storico per l'attualità, Mariarosaria Villani
15.00: Il cantiere di restauro delle Terme Centrali tra ricerca e valorizzazione, Alberta Martellone / Annamaria Mauro
15.30: Indagini conoscitive nei cantieri di messa in sicurezza, Annamaria Mauro
16.00: Comment and final discussion, Felix Pirson