Thursday 23 May 2013 - at 17.30 hours
Pinacoteca, Room VIII (Raphael), Musei Vaticani

Presentation of book
IL SERRAGLIO DI PIETRA
La Sala degli Animali in Vaticano
byAlvar González-Palacios

Introduced byAntonio Paolucci

Main speaker
Paolo Liverani - Professor of Topography of Ancient Italy at the University of Florence

The Author will be present.

Free admission from 17.00 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 2 May 2013 - at 17.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

LE SPALLE AL SETTECENTO
Forma, modelli e organizzazione dei musei nella Roma napoleonica (1809-1814)

Presented by
Giandomenico Spinola - Head of the Department of Archaeology, Vatican Museums

Speakers:
Paolo Liverani - Professor of Topography of Ancient Italy at the University of Florence
Michela Di Macco - Professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"

The author will be present.

Free admission from 16.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 18 April 2013 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

SCREENING
Inside the Museum. Inspiration and photographic observation in Museums

introduced byAntonio Paolucci

presentingMicol Forti

With the participation of
Mimmo Jodice - Alain Fleischer - Alessandra Mauro

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 21 March 2013 - at 15.30 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

ICONS IN CINEMA
The image within the image

introduced byAntonio Paolucci

Main speaker
Marco Vanelli - Editor of the film review "Cabiria. Studi di Cinema"

Free admission from 15.00 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 14 March 2013 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

THE DEPOSITION BY CARAVAGGIO
Its message unveiled

introduced byAntonio Paolucci

Speakers:
Ulderico Santamaria and Fabio Morresi - Director and Assistant of the Vatican Museums Diagnostic Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 7 February 2013 - at 15.30 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

A GREAT ARISTOCRATIC ROMAN FAMILY, FROM ASIA MINOR TO SICILY AND ROME
(2^nd - 5^th CENTURIES D.C.)
Testimony of an epigraph conserved in the Vatican Museums

introduced byAntonio Paolucci

Speakers:Guido Cornini and Claudia Lega

with a presentation by
François Chausson - Professor of Roman History at the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

Free admission from 15.00 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 17 January 2013 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

FROM THE ALPS TO THE PYRAMIDS
Analyses and techniques applied to the study and conservation of human mummies

introducesAlessia Amenta

Speakers:
Albert Zink - Director of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman of Bolzano, EURAC
Marco Samadelli - Conservator, EURAC

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 18 October 2012 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

TERRA NATA, SPECULA DEI
Plants and Faith in Medieval Tuscany
byPaolo Luzzi

introduced byAntonio Paolucci

Speakers:
Paolo Luzzi - Curator of the Botanical Garden of the Museum of Natural History, Florence
Maria Serlupi Crescenzi - Head of the Office of Didactic Activities, Vatican Museums

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Tuesday 26 June 2012 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

THE FRIEZE OF THE MEDIEVAL PORTICO OF ST. JOHN LATERAN
Rediscovered fragments and new reconstruction hypotheses

Introduction byAntonio Paolucci

Contributors
Anna Maria De Strobel - Curator of the Department of Byzantine and Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, Nicoletta Bernacchio - Historian of Medieval Art, Paola Brunori - Architect, Guy Devreux - Director of the Vatican Museums Restoration Laboratory for Stone Artefacts, Roberto Cassio - Director of the Vatican Museums Restoration Laboratory for Mosaics, Ulderico Santamaria - Director of the Vatican Museums Diagnostic Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 24 May 2012 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

THE MOSCIONI FOUNDATION: HOW THE VATICAN MUSEUMS' PHOTOGRAPHIC
COLLECTION WAS BORN

Introduction byAntonio Paolucci

Main speaker
Paola Di Giammaria - Head of the Vatican Museums Photo Library

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 12 April 2012 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

ART & CINEMA
Michelangelo in the seventh art

Introduction byAntonio Paolucci

Main speaker
Marco Vanelli - Editor of the film review "Cabiria. Studi di Cinema"

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 15 March 2012 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION PRACTICES AT THE VATICAN MUSEUMS
Routine maintenance plans

Introduction byAntonio Paolucci

Main speaker
Vittoria Cimino - Head of the Vatican Museums' Conservation Office

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 19 January 2012 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

Presentation of the volume
JOACHIM VON SANDRART (1606-1688)
I disegni
byCecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata

The speakers at the book presentation will be:
Silvia Danesi Squarzina and Alessandro Zuccari - Ordinary Professors (Sapienza - University of Rome)
Sybille Ebert-Schifferer - Executive Director (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for the History of Art)

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 15 December 2011 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

ANTINOUS AS HERO
The creation of the cult of Antinous

speaker
Marco Galli - Professor of Classical Archaeology (La Sapienza - University of Rome)

introduced by
Alessia Amenta - Curator of the Department of Antiquities of Egypt and the Near East in the Vatican Museums

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 16 giugno 2011 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

THE SCULPTED TOPOGRAPHY
The discovery in the Vatican of a tombstone placed by the Napoleonic Government
(1809-1814) along the Via Appia

Organised by
Giorgio Filippi - Curator of the Epigraphic Collection of the Vatican Museums
Tullio Aebischer - Expert in Geography (La Sapienza - University of Rome)

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 12 May 2011 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

SCREENING
Multiplicity and Instability of Vision
Introduction byArnold Nesselrath

Contribution by the following expert:
Micol Forti - Director of the Vatican Museums' Modern and Contemporary Art Department

The artist,Christoph Brech will be present

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 16 December 2010 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

THE SISTINE OF PERUGINO, BOTTICELLLI, GHIRLANDAIO AND ROSSELLI
A Crowded Fifteenth Century Site

Presented by
Maurizio De Luca - Inspector of the Painting and Wood Materials Restoration Laboratory

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 9 December 2010 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

Second appointment
"DEALING WITH TECHNICAL ISSUES IN RESTORATION"

Presentations will be given by the following experts:
Flavia Callori and Chiara Omodei Zorini: The restoration of the bronze gilded peacocks in the Vatican Museums: reversibility of the intervention and a study of the techniques employed in making a Roman bronze
Serena Bidorini: The restoration of five Japanese armoured pieces from the Oriental Art Museum of Venice: a conservation project for complex artefacts made from diverse materials

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 2 Dicember 2010 - at 18.00 hours
Sobieski Room, Vatican Museums

THE ROOM OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by FRANCESCO PODESTI
The history of a Commission and of the Restoration
Edited byMicol Forti
Introduction byAntonio Paolucci

Interventions by
Carlo Sisi and Alvar González Palacios

Free admission from 17.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 11 November 2010 - at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

First appointment
"DEALING WITH TECHNICAL ISSUES IN RESTORATION"
Introduction byAntonio Paolucci

Presentations will be given by the following experts:
Ulderico Santamaria-Stefania Pandozy: From the Conservation Project to the Poly Material Laboratory
Catherine Rivière: The Restoration of the Melanesian Pirogue "ivukapi" of the Vatican Museums
Guy Devreux: Experience regarding the anchoring systems of stone artefacts

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 21 October 2010 at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

Maurizio Sannibale will present the book
PICTURAE ETRUSCORUM IN VASCULIS by Maria Emilia Masci
Introduction byAntonio Paolucci

Contributions will be made by the following experts:
Maria Emilia Masci - Author, - Guido Cornini - Curator of the Decorative Arts Department of the Vatican Museums, - Carlo Gasparri - Professor of Archaeology and History of Greek and Roman Art,
University Federico II of Naples

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.

Thursday 14 October 2010 at 16.00 hours
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums

VATICAN COFFIN PROJECT
Egyptian polychrome wooden sarcophagi viewed from the new perspective of scientific research performed
by Alessia Amenta

There will be interventions by the following experts:
Ulderico Santamaria and Fabio Morresi - Director and Assistant of the Vatican Museums Diagnostic Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration - Giovanna Prestipino - Restorer

Free admission from 15.30 hrs. on presentation of the invitation.