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Virtual Symposium: Paintings on Stone
This event occurred in the past. The recorded virtual programs are available below.
Both days: 10 am–3 pm CT
The exhibition Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred, 1530–1800 explores why artists began using stone supports and the role that stone played in the meaning of their artwork. In spite of excellent recent scholarship, there are many issues surrounding the topic of painting on stone that remain unexamined or inadequately understood. This virtual symposium will address a variety of topics concerning the use of stone as a painting support. Designed to both complement and expand the scope of the exhibition, presentations will include references to additional artists, artworks, types of stone, and the collecting of stone paintings.
The virtual symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred, 1530–1800, on view at the Saint Louis Art Museum, February 20–May 15, 2022.
This virtual program will take place via Zoom and will include opportunities for participants to ask questions with the Q&A feature. Attendees’ mics and cameras will not be activated. This event will have automated closed captions.
Attendees must register to receive the Zoom link. Capacity for the live program is limited.
A closed-captioned recording of the program will become available on the Museum’s YouTube channel and website in the weeks following.
This symposium is sponsored by Phenix Marble Company and supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Keynote Lecture: Reflections on Marbles
Originally presented live on April 7, 2022
Cloaked in Obscurity: The Affects of Darkness in Leonaert Bramer’s Slate Paintings
Originally presented live on April 7, 2022
Painting on Stone in Rome from Sebastiano del Piombo to Marcello Venusti
Originally presented live on April 7, 2022
Roundtable Discussion and Q&A Session, Day 1
Originally presented live on April 7, 2022
Between Stone and Blood: Painting on Obsidian in the Trans-Atlantic World
Originally presented live on April 8, 2022
Still-Life on Stone: Redefining the Parameters of Materiality
Originally presented live on April 8, 2022
Marble as Painting: The Background
Originally presented live on April 8, 2022
Roundtable Discussion and Q&A Session, Day 2
Originally presented live on April 8, 2022
Symposium Programming
April 7, 2022
Keynote Lecture: Reflections on Marbles
Nicholas Penny, Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou and former Director of the National Gallery, London
Cloaked in Obscurity: The Affects of Darkness in Leonaert Bramer’s Slate Paintings
Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Bader Curator of European Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Painting on stone in Rome from Sebastiano del Piombo to Marcello Venusti
Andrea G. Donati, independent art historian
There will be a roundtable discussion and Q&A session with all six symposium speakers after the presentations on April 7.
April 8, 2022
Between Stone and Blood: Painting on Obsidian in the Trans-Atlantic World
Christopher Nygren, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and associate professor of early modern art & architectural history at the University of Pittsburgh
Still-Life on Stone: Redefining the Parameters of Materiality
Judith Mann, Senior Curator for European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art Museum, organizer of the exhibition
Marble as Painting: The Background
Fabio Barry, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC
There will be a roundtable discussion and Q&A session with all six symposium speakers after the presentations on April 8.
Sponsors
The exhibition symposium is sponsored by Phenix Marble Company and supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
