Monday, November 3, 2014
9:30
Welcome and Introduction
Vera-Simone Schulz and Gerhard Wolf
9:45
Der dekorierte Boden. Zur Konzeption und Funktion römischer Mosaikböden
Susanne Muth (Berlin)
10:30
Spätantike Teppiche aus Ägypten: Technik und Dekor
Cäcilia Fluck (Berlin)
11:15 coffee break
11:45
“To knit the ravelled sleeve of care”: Observations on the Role of Knots in Floor Mosaics, Carpets and Clothing during Late Antiquity
Henry Maguire (London)
12:30
Warum nannte Clemens von Alexandrien sein Hauptwerk “Stromateis”?
Dietmar Wyrwa (Berlin)
13:15 lunch break
15:15
Das Teppichparadigma: Gottfried Semper – Alois Riegl – Henri Matisse
Regine Prange (Frankfurt am Main)
16:00
The Carpet as Cultural Code and Utopian Metaphor
Eva-Maria Troelenberg (Florence)
16:45 coffee break
17:15
Synthesis of Molecular Carpets
Dieter Schlüter (Zurich)
18:00
The Beauty of Repetition: Symmetry and Formation of Patterns from Macro to Nano
Markus Lackinger (Munich)
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
9:30
Fragments: Challenges in Conservation and Display
Anna Beselin (Berlin)
10:15
Yongle to Yongzheng: Imperial Chinese Carpets
Michael Franses (Doha)
11:00 coffee break
Visit of the carpet collection in the Museo Bardini (speakers and moderators only). Guided tour with Alberto Boralevi (Florence)
lunch break
15:00
Tod und Tuch: Grabteppiche
Silke Tammen (Gießen)
15:45
Sacred Surfaces: Carpets, Coverings and Mesas in the Colonial Andes
Elena Phipps (Los Angeles)
16:15 coffee break
16:30
13th- and 14th-Century Anatolian Carpets
Scott Redford (London)
17:15
Problems of Studying Islamic Carpet Production and European Consumer Taste in European Carpet Depictions
Walter Denny (Amherst, Mass.)
18:00 coffee break
18:15
À la recherche du tapis perdu: Artistic and Academic Approaches to Carpets in Paintings
Vera-Simone Schulz (Berlin/Florence)
19:00
Nach Strich und Faden, nach allen Regeln der Kunst: Teppiche in niederländischen Gemälden
Karin Leonhard (Bonn)
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
8:30
Antike Heldenepik im Salon: Napoleon und die Tapisserie
Gisela Schlüter (Erlangen)
9:15
The “Renaissance de la tapisserie” in France (c. 1940-1955): Technique,
Lyricism and Ideology
Merel van Tilburg (Paris)
10:00 coffee break
10:30
Zur Ordnung der Gewebe
Friedrich Teja Bach (Vienna)
11:15
Final Remarks by Gerhard Wolf
15:00
Visit of the Museo del Bargello (speakers and moderators only)