DAY 0 5 July 2016 Tuesday

16:00-18:00 Pre-registration and welcome drink at KIK-IRPA

DAY 1 6 July 2016 Wednesday

08:00 Registration

Opening:

09:00 Welcome addresses: Christina Ceulemans, Director of KIK-IRPA Kristin Bartik, President of Scientific Committee of KIK-IRPA Rocco Mazzeo, President of WP ChemCH in EuCheMS Nineta Majcen / David Cole-Hamilton, President of EuCheMS Koen Janssens, University of Antwerp

Morning session: Imaging techniques Chairpersons: Koen Janssens, Kristin Bartik

09:30 Michel Menu, Multispectral and multi-scale analyses of Leonardo’s painting (plenary lecture)10:00 Geert Van der Snickt, Revealing Van Eyck’s original paint layers on the Ghent Altarpiece by combined MA-XRF scanning and SEM-EDX analysis (keynote lecture)10:30 John Delaney, A novel macro-scanning imaging spectrometer system for collection of multi-modal image ubes of paintings and drawings10:50 Elodie Herens, Insight on Van Dongen’s La violoniste by hyperspectral imaging and MA-XRF

11:10-11:40 Coffee break

11:40 Fabien Pottier, Chemical mapping of gypsum and palygorskite on a 16th-century. Aztec manuscript through spectral decomposition of NIR hyperspectral images 12:00 Roberto Alberti, "Crono": Reconfigurable macro-XRF scanner for cultural heritage applications12:20 Francesca Piqué, Technical examination of 14th-century wall paintings at Germolles, the palace of the Duke of Bourgogne, France

12:40-14:00 Lunch break

Afternoon session: Alteration of pigments Chairpersons: Marika Spring, Heike Stege

14:00 Barbara Berrie, Change is permanent: thoughts on colour in cultural heritage (plenary lecture)14:30 Katrien Keune, The degradation of ultramarine paints: a catalytic process? (keynote lecture)15:00 Laura Cartechini, Evidence and characterization of chemical changes in oil paints containing copper-based green pigments by FTIR spectroscopy

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15:20-15:50 Coffee break

15:50 Marc Vermeulen, Influence of the binding medium on arsenic sulfide pigments’ degradation investigated by spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques16:10 Victor Gonzalez, Probing the history of lead white pigments by their luminescence properties

16:30-19:00 Poster session 1 Chairpersons: Kim Simonsen, Brenda Keneghan

16:30 Flash presentation for posters17:30 Poster exhibition at KIK-IRPA

DAY 2 7 July 2016 Thursday

Morning session: Chemistry for conservation treatments Chairpersons: Manfred Schreiner, Geert Van der Snickt

09:30 David Cole-Hamilton, Messages from the deep; supercritical drying of waterlogged archaeological wood (plenary lecture) 10:00 Letizia Monico, Understanding of chemical factors influencing the stability of lead chromate and cadmium sulfide pigments for the optimization/development of effective conservation strategies of 19th-20th-century paintings (keynote lecture)10:30 Isabelle Fabre-Francke, Development of a multifunctional polysiloxane based conservation treatment for brittle paper: The application to aged newsprint 10:50 Francesca Gherardi, Commercial vs innovative treatments for stone conservation. On-site performance evaluation at the Monza Cathedral

11:10-11:40 Coffee break

11:40 Rosie Grayburn, Coatings for metal: protecting outdoor bronze sculpture 12:00 Emily McHale, In situ preparation of lignin-like oligomers for the consolidation of waterlogged archaeological wood12:20 Giorgia Sciutto, A green approach to art conservation: biopolymer-based organogels for the cleaning of paintings

12:40-14:00 Lunch break

Afternoon session: Integrated study of European paintings Chairpersons: Rocco Mazzeo, Michel Menu

14:00 Marika Spring, Studying the materials of Netherlandish paintings from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: current knowledge, approaches and interpretation (plenary lecture)14:30 Heike Stege, Typisch deutsch? Material studies on German paintings from the 15th and 16th-century (keynote lecture) 15:00 Corina Rogge, Paint never behaves the same: analysis of four works by Franz Kline

15:20-15:50 Coffee-break

15:50 Barbara Łydżba-Kopczyńska, Scientific examination of a new discovered painting of Hieronymus Bosch - Old Netherlands masterpiece or forgery?16:10 Annelies Van Loon, A new pigment in Rembrandt’s palette

16:30 – 19:00 Poster session 2 Chairpersons: Yvonne Fors, Oliver Hahn

16:30 Flash presentation for posters17:00 Poster exhibition at KIK-IRPA

19:30 Conference dinner: L’Atelier restaurant

DAY 3 8 July 2016 Friday

Morning session: Organic materials and molecular analysis Chairpersons: Barbara Berrie, Katrien Keune

09:00 Rocco Mazzeo, An advanced surface-enhanced active thin layer chromatography plate for the identification of organic dyes by FTIR and Raman microscopy (plenary lecture)09:30 Costanza Miliani, Taking molecular spectroscopies from lab to the museum: study of Jackson Pollock’s palette in Alchemy (1947) by non invasive methods (keynote lecture)10:00 Tomasz Sawoszczuk, React on time! Application of SPME-GC-MS techniques for an early detection of active moulds on woollen historical objects10:20 Ilaria Bonaduce, An investigation of the curing of urushi and tung oil films by thermo-analytical and mass spectrometric techniques

10:40-11:10 Coffee-break

11:10 Ilaria Degano, HPLC-DAD and HPLC-ESI-Q-ToF characterisation of early 20th-century lakes and pigments from Lefranc archives11:30 Katherine Curran, Using solid-phase micro-extraction gas chromatography mass spectrometry (SPME-GC/MS) and fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for the analysis of modern polymeric materials in historic collections: a case study of handbags in the Museum of London11:50 Adeline Royaux, Study of plasticizers, loss and exudation in plasticized polyvinylchloride-based heritage objects

12:10-13:30 Lunch break

Afternoon session: Archeometry (glass, ceramics, metals) Chairpersons: Costanza Miliani, David Strivay

13:30 Manfred Schreiner, Archeometry – the interdisciplinary cooperation between archeology and natural sciences (plenary lecture)14:00 Oliver Hahn, Non-destructive testing in arts and archaeology (keynote lecture)14:30 Line van Wersch, Multiscale study of the Carolingian mosaic of Germigny-des-Prés (Loiret, Fr.)14:50 Caitlin McQueen, X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods for identification of inorganic compounds in wooden artefacts from the Viking Age

15:10 Sebastian Godts, Chemistry in the conservation of building materials. From historic animal barn to contemporary kitchen, limits of salts

15:30-16:00 Coffee-break

Closing

16:00 Poster awards and final remarks

KIK-IRPA Pre-registration and welcome reception at KIK-IRPA Poster sessions 1 and 2Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium (KIK), Jubelpark 1, bE-1000 brusselInstitut royal du Patrimoine artistique (IRPA), parc du Cinquantenaire 1, bE-1000 bruxelleswww.kikirpa.be

KMKG-MRAH Registration + CongressKoninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG), Jubelpark 10, bE-1000 brusselMusées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire (MRAH), parc du Cinquantenaire 10, bE-1000 bruxelles

L’Atelier restaurant Conference dinnerFranklinstraat 28, bE-1000 brusselRue Franklin 28, bE-1000 bruxelleshttp://www.atelier-euro.be

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DAY 4 9 July 2016 Saturday Extra-conference activity (optional)

Guided tour of the Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Museum of Fine Arts) and the St bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent.Theme: Study and conservation-restoration of van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece