RENCE F WARSAW INTERNATIONAL CONFER ONLINE / UNIVERSITY OF Modelled, SEP 9–10, 2021 Fired, Transformed: Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture 1400–1600 Modelled, Fired, Transformed: Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture 1400–1600 Terracotta has long suffered from the view that it is merely an auxiliary medium, to be analyzed primarily in relation to its role as a building material or its preparatory use in the design of more prestigious bronze or marble sculptures. Yet in recent decades scholars have shown that terracotta sculpture revolutionized the Italian fifteenth-century art scene and during the sixteenth century its artistic significance resonated in other parts of Europe. The success of terracotta sculpture at that time should be credited to the technical ingenuity, including glazing its surface, believed in the Renaissance to have been unknown in antiquity and therefore artistically and intellectually innovative. The growing field of studies of terracotta sculpture contributed to the re-evaluation of the material but at the same time it divided small-scale terracotta figurines from large-scale sculptures. The arbitrary distinctions into the fine art and the applied arts, with the latter category often dismissed as purely decorative, obscured the image of the artistic production and neglected the technical similarities between the two products. However, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries all terracotta sculptures solicited a complementary range of interactions through the agency of their material and form. Modern conservation research assists art historians in thinking about the practice, artistic technique and production of terracotta sculpture. Various teams of conservators use similar methods to analyse smalland large-scale artefacts. This provides a scientific justification for inclusive examination of terracotta sculpture from that period. This two-day conference held at the University of Warsaw will offer a possibility of the full exchange of ideas between researchers working on terracotta as a sculptural material. DAY 1 — THURSDAY SEP 9, 2021 9.00–9.20 Registration 9.20–9.30 Welcome & Introduction — Zuzanna Sarnecka and Agnieszka Dziki 9.30–11.00 • online • • 11.00–11.15 Session 1 — Agency of Clay Bart van Eekelen (Utrecht University/Museum Het Markiezenhof): Materiality as Incentive to Stylistic Innovation in Earthenware from Bergen op Zoom (15th–16th century) Nicola Jennings (Courtauld Institute of Art): Making Necessity a Virtue: Lorenzo Mercadante and the Beginnings of Sevillian Terracotta João Rolaça (University of Lisbon/Vicarte – Glass and Ceramics for the Arts): Monumental Terracotta Sculpture in Portugal before and after Hodart – Artistic and Technical Approach Discussion Coffee Break 11.15–12.45 • Session 2 — Forging Identities Jeanette Kohl (University of California, Riverside): A Material Anthropology of Resemblance. Quattrocento Portrait Sculpture in Terracotta online • Francesca Padovani (Università di Trento): Hans Reichle’s Contribution to the Practice of Terracotta Sculpture in Tyrol online • Oxana Smagol (Moscow State University): The Problem of Terracotta Sculptural Cornice of Palazzo Bolognini, Bologna Discussion 12.45–14.00 Lunch 14.00–15.30 Session 3 — Terracotta and Design • Catherine Kupiec (Independent Researcher): Luca della Robbia’s Labors in Terracotta online • Roberta Olson (New-York Historical Society): The Transformation of Della Robbia Glazed Terracotta Garlands from Luca through Giovanni: The Promise of Immortality and Paradise in a Frame online • Dylan Smith (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): Clay Models in Verrocchio’s Workshop Discussion 15.30–15.45 Coffee Break 15.45–16.45 Session 4 — Sculpture and Painting • Andreas Huth (Technische Universität Berlin): Face and Surface. Some Observations on Painted Quattrocento Terracotta Busts SEP 9–10, 2021 ONLINE / UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW online • David Lucidi (Independent Researcher): The Primacy of Terracotta. Sculptures for Painting in the 16th-century Renaissance Florence Discussion 17.00–18.00 Keynote Lecture: Marietta Cambareri (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) online 19.00 Conference Dinner DAY 2 — FRIDAY SEP 10, 2021 10.00–11.00 Keynote Lecture: Giancarlo Gentilini (Università degli Studi di Perugia) 11.00–12.30 Session 5 — Devotional Terracotta • Rachel Boyd (Ashmolean Museum, University online of Oxford): Familiar Visions: Glazed Terracotta, Serial Production, and Devotional Experience in Renaissance Italy • Marco Scansani (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): Giovanni de Fondulis, a ”scultor tere” for the Ordo Eremitarum • Zuzanna Sarnecka (University of Warsaw): Popes’ Clay: Devotional Terracotta Sculpture in the Papal States Discussion 12.30–14.00 Lunch 14.00–15.30 Session 6 — Mimetic Ventures • Federica Carta (Université de Picardie – Jules Verne, Amiens/Università degli Studi di Perugia): Jeux d’échelle: glazed ornament between architecture and altarpieces • Erin Giffin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität online München/Villa I Tatti): Exceeding Expectations: Traversing Material Boundaries through Terracotta • Virna Ravaglia (University of Genova): Antonio Begarelli and Small-Scale Terracotta Sculpture Discussion 15.30–16.00 Closing Remarks 16.00–18.00 Visit to the National Gallery in Warsaw REGISTRATION: Please contact us at z.sarnecka@uw.edu.pl or dzikiagnieszka@gmail.com if you would like to join us in person or to request the event link.