Conference "La Manifattura Ginori and the circulation of sculptural models in Europe"

Organized by the Fondazione Ginori, the conference scheduled for November 23 in Florence at the Auditorium of Sant’Apollonia will bring together some of the leading international experts, with the aim of telling a story that in many respects is still unpublished, spanning from the 17th century to the 20th century and centered on the extraordinary collection of late Baroque models gathered by Marquis Carlo Ginori "for the use of the factory".

PROGRAM

9:30 AM–1:00 PM Morning session
Moderated by Andrea Bacchi, University of Bologna

Cristiano Giometti, University of Florence
Roman late Baroque sculpture inspirations in the models of the Manifattura di Doccia

Dimitrios Zikos, independent scholar
Λαοκοωντες. Doccia and the Diffusion of an Opus Nobile

Kira d’Alburquerque, Victoria and Albert Museum
Variations on Giovan Battista Foggini’s Apollo and Marsyas

Mara Visonà, Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi, Florence
Movement and emotions in Foggini’s bas-reliefs in relation to the models of the Manifattura di Doccia

Stefano Casciu, Regional Directorate of Museums of Tuscany
A new Doccia porcelain group: the Samaritan at the Well by Girolamo Ticciati

Paola D’Agostino and Marino Marini, Bargello Museums, Francesca Rossi, restorer
Baroque waxes at the Bargello National Museum between restorations and new displays

Andrea Di Lorenzo, Museo Ginori, Laura Speranza, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Maria Grazia Cordua, restorer
The restoration of Apollo and Marsyas, from a model by Giovan Battista Foggini

Giulia Basilissi, Regional Directorate of Museums of Tuscany, Azzurra Macherelli and Francesca Briani, ADARTE
A new technical analysis protocol for wax models at Museo Ginori

3:00 PM–5:30 PM Afternoon session
Moderated by Dora Liscia, University of Florence

Fernando Loffredo, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Soldani in Spain

Sara Ragni, University of Florence
The flourishing of the effigy in late Baroque Florentine funerary sculpture and its impact on the production of Doccia (with a postscript on the Ginori tombs)

Andreina d’Agliano, independent scholar
Doccia groups and figures for centrepieces

Rita Balleri, Museo Ginori
Ancient and Renaissance paintings in the sculptural models of the Manifattura di Doccia

Stefania Cretella, University of Verona
The Richard-Ginori at the era of Art Nouveau: the search for new languages

Oliva Rucellai, Museo Ginori
Classical antiquity in Gio Ponti’s designs for Richard-Ginori

The conference was made possible thanks to the contribution granted by the Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes of the Italian Ministry of Culture.