Colloque : “The Adorned City. A History of Painted Façades in the Modern Era”, Université de Fribourg, du 10 au 12 juin 2025

The Adorned City:

A History of Painted Façades in the Modern Era

 

June 10 – 12, 2025

University of Fribourg

room MIS 10 01. 13

 

June 10 (room MIS 10 01. 13)

 

17:00 – 18:00

Jérémie Koering (Université de Fribourg)

Facing Painted Facades

 

18:00 – 18:15

Florian Métral (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Centre André-Chastel, Paris)

Mapping Painted Façades: a Database

 

18:15 – 19:00

Maria Fabricius Hansen (Københavns Universitet),

Between Ephemerality and Permanence: Festivals and Urban Adornments in Early Modernity (keynote lecture)

 

19:00 >  standing dinner reception

 

 

June 11 (room MIS 10 01. 13)

 

9:10 – 9:15

Jérémie Koering (Université de Fribourg)

Welcome speech

 

Panel : TECHNICAL QUALITIES

Respondent : Patricia Falguières (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

 

9:15 – 9:40

Anna Swartwood House (University of South Carolina)

Painting in the Streets: The Tensions of the Frescoed Facade

 

9:40 – 10:05

Antonella Fenech (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Centre André Chastel, Paris)

“Sfacettature” : On the Unity and Heterogeneity of Painted Façades in Italy

 

10:05 – 10:20

Discussion

 

10:20 – 10:35

Coffee Break

 

10:35 – 11:00

Andreas Huth (Universität Bamberg)

Decorative scratches: Sgraffito in Italy Before and After Vasari

 

11:00 – 11:25

Pavel Waisser (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci) / Vladislava Říhová (Univerzita Pardubice) / Zdeňka Míchalová (Univerzita Pardubice)

Renaissance Façade Decorations in Bohemian and Moravian Towns

 

11:25 – 11:40

Discussion

 

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

 

Panel : SPACE

Respondent : Valérie Hayaert (University of Warwick / University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en Yvelines, Paris Saclay)

 

14:00 – 14:25

Luca Cereghetti (Université de Fribourg)

Presence and Representation: Political Display on Painted Façades in the Old Swiss Confederacy

 

14:25 – 14:50

Florian Métral (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Centre André-Chastel, Paris)

Painted Clock Façades: Time and Space

 

14:50 – 15:15

Dominic-Alain Boariu (Université de Fribourg)

Regardless of Where You Are: Vision and Counter-Vision in Painted Façades (A Motif Study)

 

15:15 – 15:30

Discussion

 

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee break

 

Panel : TRADITION

Respondent : Carolin Behrmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

 

15:45 – 16:10

Alexis Culotta (Tulane University)

“The True Painter of Ancient Things”: Remembering Polidoro’s All’Antica Dialect in Frescoed Façade Design

 

16:10 – 16:35

Sandes Dindar (Université de Fribourg)

Exploring Mythology and Antiquity on Swiss Renaissance Façades: Narration and Patronage in the 16th-Century

 

16:35 – 16:50

Discussion

 

19 :00

Dinner

 

 

June 12 (room MIS 10 01. 13)

 

9:10 – 9:15

Dominic-Alain Boariu (Université de Fribourg)

Welcome speech

 

Panel : ICONOGRAPHY

Respondent : Marie Theres Stauffer (Université de Genève)

 

9:15 – 9:40

Rossella Riscica (architect, independent researcher, Treviso) / Chiara Voltarel (independent researcher, Treviso)

Titian as a Young Fresco Painter: The Façade of the “Scuola del Santissimo” in Treviso Between Antiquarian Decoration and the Modern manner

 

9:40 – 10:05

Angela Kuratli (Université de Fribourg)

The Big Sgraffito House in Krems

 

10:05 – 10:20

Discussion

 

10:20 – 10:35

Coffee break

 

10:35 – 11:00

Fabrice Flückiger (Schwabe Verlag, Basel / Universität Bern)

Scaevola Meets Solomon: Understanding the Principles of Good Government Through the Murals of UIm’s City Hall

 

11:00 – 11:25

Susan Tipton (independent researcher, Munich)

Salomon and the Queen of Sheba: A Façade-Painting Competition in Early 17th-Century Augsburg and the Secret of the Wall, that Disappeared

 

11:25 – 11:40

Discussion

 

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

 

Panel : ICONOGRAPHY

Respondent : Sabine Frommel (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

 

14:00 – 14:25

Aleksandra Sieczkowska / Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska / Marcin Wisłocki (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)

Iconographic Programs of Renaissance Sgraffito Decorations in Silesia: Origins, Patterns, Ideas

 

14:25 – 14:50

Julia Grimm (Universität Heidelberg)

Space for Imagination: The Façade Design for the ‘Maier’ House in Nuremberg

 

14:50 – 15:15

Martina Volpato (Università di Bologna)

Verona’s Painted Façades: Documentation, Surveys, and Analysis of External Frescoes from the 14th to the 19th Centuries

 

15:15 – 15:30

Discussion

 

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee break

 

Panel : RECEPTION

 

15:45 – 16:10

Océane Acquier Sicart (researcher at the Prince’s Palace of Monaco)

Between Restoration, Reconstruction and Invention: On the Trail of a 16th-Century Fresco
on the Façade at the Prince’s Palace of Monaco

 

16:10 – 16:35

Adrián Fernández Almoguera (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid)

Unusual Colours: on Some Decorated Façades in 18th-Century Madrid

 

16:35 – 16:50

Discussion

 

16:50 – 17:05

Jérémie Koering / Dominic-Alain Boariu (Université de Fribourg)

By the Street

 

19 :00

Dinner

 

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