Since 2012 a group of art historians, historians and conservators have explored the famous Golden Panel from Lüneburg (Goldene Tafel). The project is now coming to an end and in 2016 an international conference is planned to take place.
The Goldene Tafel from Lüneburg in context:
Investigations on technology, shape and significance of altarpieces in northern Europe around 1400
Hanover
07.04.2016 – 09.04.2016
CALL FOR PAPERS:
© Landesmuseum Hannover
Since 2012 the Golden Panel has been the object of an interdisciplinary research project, sponsored by the Volkswagen Stiftung (€ 540.000), the Klosterkammer Hanover and the FAMA-Kunststiftung. In collaboration with the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim, conservators, art historians and historians have analyzed the altarpiece. As well as subjecting the retable to a full technical examination, the project has also explored its origin, history, style and use.
This conference will present the research team’s findings and place these in a wider context. We therefore invite papers as well as posters that present related research projects and monographic investigations on comparable objects. Especially welcome are contributions, which focus on recent advances in the field of technical examination and papers addressing the question of how to display and exhibit similar works in the 21st century.
Suggested Sessions
- Monumental architecture as princely commemoration? The construction of St. Michael’s Abbey in Lüneburg, its furnishings and its functions
- Commemoration and Representation: Charting the commemorative culture of the Welf dynasty
- Inclusion and representation. Relics and the purpose of “spoils” in altarpieces of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- Evidences of manufacture: tool marks, under-drawings, transfer of motifs and forms of ornamentation. What might the results of the technical examination tell us about the production of major carved and painted retables?
- – North German, Central German, West German or Low Lands? Defining, producing and disseminating sculpted and painted retables during the fifteenth century.
- – Ways of Seeing – Presenting the medieval retable in the museum environment
Proposals for 30-minute papers or 5-minute poster presentations should be forwarded to antje-fee.koellermann@landesmuseum-hannover.de until the 30th of September. Requested are the title and a brief summary (max. 2000 characters) in German, English or French.
Lectures and posters are intended for publication as part of the Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte.
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The Golden Panel from Lüneburg
FEATURED PHOTO:
The Death and Coronation of the Virgin. “Master of the Golden Panel in Lüneburg” around1431. From: The Golden Panel – Goldene Tafel from Lüneburg – in Landesmuseum Hannover © Landesmuseum Hannover
