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2024, Nov. 26. online workshop on the restoration of the Versailles ambassadors’ staircase (Frédérique Bertrand, Olivier Bonfait, François Guéna, Matthieu Lett): application of existing surveys on the parametric model of the vault, first restitution of the staircase’s marble decor.

2024, Nov. 12. Workshop on line. Presentation of master’s research. Zoe Treyer (master 1, Ecole du Louvre, under the supervision of Olivier Bonfait and Turner Edwards): Le décor du salon chinois de Champs-sur-Marne par Christophe Huet, 1748; Eliseo Chiodini (master 1, Ecole du Louvre, under the supervision of Olivier Bonfait and Antonin Liatard) : Giovanni Gherardini et la quadratura : le décor de la bibliothèque de la maison professe des Jésuites de Paris.

2024, Oct. 30. Meeting on line, Matteo Burioni and Olivier Bonfait: preparation of the final workshop on December 11-13 at the DFK, Paris.

2024, Oct. 29. Workshop on line. Presentation of Master’s research. Anne Bourdet (Master 1, École du Louvre, under the supervision of Olivier Bonfait and Vladimir Nestorov): Restoring the missing ceiling of the Galerie de Chanteloup, painted by Henri de Favannes ; Clémence Couderc (master 1, École du Louvre, under the supervision of Olivier Bonfait and Bénédicte Gady): The project to reconstitute the oval ceiling at Vaux-le-Vicomte.

2024, Oct. 15. Workshop on line. Presentation of Master’s research. Margaux Dutkiewicz (master 1, École du Louvre, under the supervision of Olivier Bonfait and Damien Tellas): Le plafond du salon de Monsieur au château de Saint-Cloud par Pierre Mignard (1678-1800); Ilona Corcita (master 1, École du Louvre, under the supervision of Olivier Bonfait and Damien Tellas): Le décor de la galerie d’Apollon au château de Saint-Cloud.

2024, Oct. 8. Workshop on line. Presentation of Master’s research. Marius Allegret (Master 1, École du Louvre, under the supervision of Olivier Bonfait and Pierre Sérié): Le plafond peint de la rotonde d’Apollon au palais du Louvre; Solène Bezenger (master 2 under the supervision of Pauline Lafille, Université de Limoges): Les plafonds peints à poutres et joives du château d’Etangsannes.

2024, Sept. 19. Workshop on line. Review by Olivier Bonfait of Christine Casey, Making Magnificence: Architects, Stuccatori and the Eighteenth-Century Interior, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2017.

2024, September, 6. online work meeting for the restitution of the Versailles ambassadors’ staircase (Frédérique Bertrand, Olivier Bonfait, Bénédicte Gady, François Guéna). Presentation of restitution with parametric models.

2024, September, 5. online work session (Olivier Bonfait, Matteo Burioni, Bénédicte Gady). Preparation of the last two symposia: December 2024, Paris; March 2025, Munich. Discussion of session organization

2024, July, 26. online work session on the colloquia to be held in late 2024 and 2025 (first guest list), with Olivier Bonfait, Matteo Burioni, Matthieu Lett.

2024, July, 23. online work session on common database interface with Olivier Bonfait, Matteo Burioni, Bénédicte Gady, Max Kristen, Matthieu Lett, Florian Zacherl. Development of query fields and search tools.

2024, July, 22. Workshop on line. Peter Bokody (University of Plymouth): Stucco ceiling at Lanhydrock (Cornwall).

2024, June, 13-15. Seminar in Germany.
June, 13 , Potsdam, SPSG. Une histoire croisée des plafonds peints, France-Allemagne, 1600-1800. See program here : https://plafond3d.hypotheses.org/1224

2024, June. 6. Workshop on line. Mathias Decoville (master’s degree, Université de Nantes): Décors peints de plafond au château de La Seilleraye.

2024, May, 21. Workshop on line. Vladimir Nestorov: Les plafonds du Château de Fontainebleau au XVIIIe siècle.

2024, May, 15-17, seminar in Paris.
2024, May, 15, Journée d’études, Restitutions 3D : Méthodes, questions de recherches, enjeux publics, MAP MAACC, ENSA Paris La Villette, organized by Olivier Bonfait, François Guéna, Frédérique Bertrand, Matthieu Lett. See program here : https://plafond3d.hypotheses.org/1195
2024, May, 14. Restoration visits to painted ceilings. The vault in the library of the Maison Professe des Jésuites in Paris (Lycée Charlemagne), led by Eliseo Chiodini (master student, Ecole du Louvre); the chapelle de la Vierge in the church of Saint-Sulpice, led by Véronique Milande (heritage curator, head of Coarc).
2024, May, 13. Study day. Restoration and interpretation of painted ceilings (XVI-XIXth centuries), Musée du Louvre, Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon. See attached program here : https://plafond3d.hypotheses.org/1191

2024, May, 10. Workshop on line. Antonin Liatard (doctoral student, Université de Bourgogne/Université de Louvain-la-Neuve) : Le décor de la voute de la chapelle de la Trinité à Fontainebleau.

2024, May, 2. Workshop on line. Maxime Bray (doctoral student, Université de Paris-Sorbonne): Les expertises de plafond et décor sous Louis XIV.

2024, April 8: Photo shoots at Versailles with Béatrice Sarrazin, Frédérique Bertrand, Olivier Bonfait, François Guéna, Matthieu Lett for the restitution of the Staircase of the Ambassadors.

2024, April, 4. Workshop on line. Vladimir Nestorov: Les plafonds du Château de Fontainebleau sous Louis XIII.

2024, March, 28. Workshop on line. Vladimir Nestorov: Les plafonds du Château de Fontainebleau sous Henri IV.

2024, March 14. Workshop on line. Sandra Bazin: Percées illusionnistes et fragments: le miroir dans les plafonds européens.

2024, March, 11. Working meeting on the restoration of the ambassadors’ staircase at Versailles (Frédérique Bertrand, Olivier Bonfait, François Guéna, Matthieu Lett). Analysis of the first restitutions. Preparation of the May 15 event.

2024, March, 7. Workshop on line. Pierre Husson (Master 2, Ecole du Louvre): Les gravures de plafond à Venise aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

2024, February, 19. Working meeting on the restoration of the ambassadors’ staircase at Versailles (Frédérique Bertrand, Olivier Bonfait, François Guéna, Matthieu Lett). Critical study of available material. Preparation of the May 15 event.

2024, February, 15. Workshop on line. Presentation by Olivier Bonfait of Alix Barbet’s book. Coupoles, voutes et plafonds peints d’époque romaine, Paris, Hermann, 2021(https://shs.cairn.info/coupoles-voutes-et-plafonds-peints-d-epoque-romain–9791037006806?lang=fr ).

2024, February, 8. Workshop on line. Anne Ilaria Weiss (LMU, Munich): Status and space. The reception in the appartements of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth in the New Palace and the Old Palace of the Hermitage in Bayreuth.

2024

2023, December 14. Workshop on line. Damien Tellas (Sorbonne-Université): Les plafonds peints du château de Vincennes.

2023, December, 7. Workshop on line. Presentation of Solène Bézenger and Matthias Decoville’s Master’s research projects, followed by a discussion with Ulrich Pfisterer, Director of the Zentral Institut fur Kunstgechichte, on the Plafond-3D project.

2023, November 30. Workshop on line. Stephan Hoppe (B “New research into the
the construction history of the Great Garden Palace in Dresden” (one of three sites chosen for 3D studies in Germany.

2023, November, 24-26. Seminar at DFK (Paris), with Frédérique Bertrand (by videoconference), Olivier Bonfait, Matteo Burioni, Markus Castor, Bénédicte Gady, François Guéna, Max Kristen, Matthieu Lett, Vladimir Nestorov, Marine Roberton, Anne Ilaria Weiss, Florian Zacherl.
Thursday 24 : Presentation of the bases on the German and French sides, and of the common interface (Max Kristen, Florian Zacherl), discussion of this project. Presentation and discussion of site entries. Discussion on the publication of the December 2021 colloquium Painted ceilings in Europe (XIV-XXIth centuries). Forms, functions, fictions. Finalization of seminars for first semester 2024.
Friday 25: Visits to the Musée des arts décoratifs (rue de Rivoli and reserves in Saint-Denis) under the direction of Bénédicte Gady (drawings and modelli by Louis de Silvestre).
Saturday 26 Planned visits to the BNF’s Département de l’estampe et de la photographie to see ceiling drawings by Louis de Silvestre thanks to Pauline Chougnet, and to the “Allegoria, les clés de la symbolique baroque” exhibition and the Pavillon de l’Aurore in Sceaux thanks to Dominique Brême (cancelled following an accident to one of the team members).

2023, October, 19 : constitution of a research group of Master 1 students from the Ecole du Louvre on ceilings.

2023, October, 11-13, Workshop organized by the Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Paintings in Germany in Munich (LMU): “Light, Sound and Movement. Digital Approaches to the Multisensory Architectural Space”. Presentations by various members of the ceiling-3D program team: Olivier Bonfait, Matteo Burioni, Mona Hess, Stephan Hoppe.

2023, October, 5 : Workshop on line. Discussion with Cinzia Pasquali, associate member of the project, on the restoration of ceilings she has carried out. Technical analysis and restoration issues(https://arcanes.eu/fr/type/oeuvres-classiques-monumentales/ ).

2023, October. Two Master’s students who have chosen to write theses on painted ceilings are invited to take part in the seminars with their thesis supervisors: Solène Bezenger on the Château d’Etangsannes (University of Limoges, under the direction of Pauline Lafille); Mathias Decoville on the Château de La Seilleraye (University of Nantes, under the direction of Hélène Rousteau-Chambon).

2023, September, 28. Workshop on line. Marie Wetcholowsky (Gerda Henkel scholarship holder and associate member of the project, thesis: « François Lemoyne, impasse et renouveau de la peinture d’histoire à l’aube des Lumières », under the direction of Hendrik Ziegler) : Ceilings by François Lemoyne. Research in progress.

2023, September 14. Workshop on line. Presentation by Turner Edwards of his thesis project, for which he received a research grant from INHA: “Penser l’ensemble. Plafonds et décors privés à Paris (1700-1750)” (Université de Bourgogne, O. Bonfait director) and by Hugo Guibert (École du Louvre) of a forthcoming thesis project on white ceiling decoration in France and Germany from the 16th to the early 19th century.

2023, August, 16: Mona Hess, following the Bamberg seminar, proposes the organization of a summer school in 2025: “3D imaging and introduction on the use of 3D in art history and ceilings”.

2023, August, 1: meeting between Matteo Burioni and Olivier Bonfait for planning the next academic year.

2023, July, 23-26. Seminar at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT)/ Faculty of Humanities, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, organized by Mona Hess, devoted to 3D studies of the program with Frédérique Bertrand, Olivier Bonfait, Matteo Burioni, Eliane Christ, François Guéna, Mona Hess, John Hindmarch, Matthieu Lett. Update on project procession, presentation of the state of research for buildings in Germany (Ansbach, Residenz, Rheinsberg, Dresden, Palais im Grossen Garten) and France (Choisy, galerie; Versailles, escalier des ambassadeurs ; Hôtel de la Chancellerie d’Orléans) , discussion about milestones and future planning.

2023, July, 5-7: Olivier Bonfait contacts several colleagues in French universities to encourage Master’s theses on ceilings, supervised by teachers and done in collaboration with the ceiling-3D team (participation in seminars, help with research follow-up).

2023, July 1: Marine Roberton joins the team, replacing Blanche Llaurens, who has taken up a fixed-term contract in art history, in her chosen field of printmaking.

2023, June 29-July 2. Study days in Germany.
Discussion about the nature of the two final conferences: conferences or workshop? How can we stimulate to use the database? How enlarge the problematics and the questions about ceilings ?
Visit (team enlarged to Stefan Hoppe, Ulrike Seeger, Christoph Martin Vogtherr) : Stuttgart, Staatgalerie, ceilings drawings of the XVII-XVIIIe centuries linked to german palaces, Stuttgart, Schloss Solitude, Ludwigsburg, Residence under the direction of Ulrike Seeger; Rastatt, Residence, under the direction of Ulrike Seeger; Rastatt, La Favorite, Rastatt, Schlosskapelle, under the direction of Ulrike Seeger

2023, June 27 Working meeting on the restoration of the ambassadors’ staircase at Versailles (Frédérique Bertrand, Olivier Bonfait, François Guéna, Matthieu Lett). Review of available material. Preparation of presentations in Bamberg on July 23-26.

2023, June 15-18. Study days in France. Presentation of the project at the Centre de recherches Vivant Denon; general meeting and discussion about the calendar of the program at the DFK.
Visits (team enlarged to Alexandre Gady, Stefan Hoppe, Ulrike Seeger). 15-16 June : Visit of the Galerie Mazarine, under the direction of Bénédicte Gady, of the Hotel de Sully, under the direction of Jerome Delaplanche, and the restorations of the Anne d’Autriche’s appartments (under the direction of Stephane Loire and CInzia Pasquali); 17-18 June : Visit of the castle of Bussy-Rabutin (under the direction of ), of Commarin; Châteauneuf en Auxois, Ancy-le-Franc, Tanlay.

2023, 25 May. Workshop. Presentation by Matthieu Lett: Italian frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire: research perspectives”. Review of Daniel Fulco, Exhuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire. Visual culture and princely power in the age of enlightenment (2016). Update on the data collection for the base with the whole team, Management team meeting.

2023, May 12. Presentation of the project at the annual meeting of the Cultural heritage curator, Médiathèque du patrimoine, by Olivier Bonfait and Sandra Bazin-Henry.

2023 9 May: Small modifications of the database.

2023 6 April: Workshop and presentation by Bénédicte Gady  Cartoons for ceilings. State of the research : the Le Brun’s cartoons. Update on the data collection for the base with the whole team, Management team meeting.

2023 4 April: Research seminar Visualisations numériques : nouveaux outils et défis en sciences historiques organized by Marlen Schneider, Vincent Alamercery et Julien Caranton, LARHRA at the University of Grenoble  Communication by Olivier Bonfait (“PLAFOND-3D : étudier et visualiser des plafonds”).

2023 30 March: Workshop for the database.

2023 16 March: Meeting of the French team with François Guéna and Frédérique Bertrand for the 3D restitution of the Staircase of the Ambassadors of Versailles.

2023 3 March: Research seminar with Master students at the University of Franche-Comté. Communication by Matthieu Lett (“PLAFOND-3D. Une histoire croisée des plafonds peints :France-Allemagne, 1600-1800“). Moderation by Sandra Bazin-Henry.

2023 2 March: Workshop and presentation by Markus Castor. The concept of emergence as a methodological tool for understanding ceiling paintings?, and Sandra Bazin, Les plafonds de galeries : bilan et perspectives de recherche. Update on the data collection for the base with the whole team. Management team meeting.

2023 16 February: General meeting of French and German teams with 3D teams about the projects by videoconference.

2023 10 February: Meeting of the French team with François Guéna and Frédérique Bertrand for the 3D restitution of the gallery of the Château de Choisy. Discussion for the restitution of the Escalier des Ambassadeurs in Versailles.

2023 2 February: Workshop; presentation by Matteo Burioni: Periodisation, style and nation. Hans Tintelnot on ceiling painting and Olivier Bonfait: From iconography to visual rhetoric: Beldon Scott and the Barberini ceilings.
Update on the data collection for the base with the whole team. Management team meeting.

2023 January: Mail to the participants of the colloquium Plafonds peints en Europe (XIVe-XXIe siècles): formes, fonctions, fictions announcing the publication. Request for submission of texts in June for delivery to the editor in September. A large introduction written by the conference organizers and Markus Castor (which corresponds to the ANR-DFG project management team) would allow for a review of the research and issues on ceilings before the PLAFOND-3D project gets underway.

2023 12 January: Meeting of the management team. Finalization of the June (France) and July (Germany) workshop-visits.

2023 4 January: Meeting of the French team with François Guéna and Frédérique Bertrand for the 3D restitution of the gallery of the Château de Choisy.

2023

2022 27 December. Meeting of the French working team on the database: update on the data processing, checking of the files.

2022 22 December: The DFK accepts the publication of the Dec. 2021 conference in the series Passages on line.

2022 7-10 December: Meeting of the whole project team with study days at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften with a visit to the ceilings of the Residence under the direction of Stefan Hoppe and seminars. Program here. Meeting of the management team.
Integration of Markus Castor, Research Director at the DFK and Sandra Bazin, lecturer at the University of Franche-Comté into the management team.
After the organisation of the two days in Versailles and Munich, which made it possible to publicize the project, it was decided that, in order to stimulate research, it would be preferable to organize more targeted meetings to encourage reflection on the ceiling object: lighter monthly half-day workshops, initially only between members of the team, then with an outside speaker, and two-day workshop-visits in front of works of art twice a year, which would offer experimental situations in front of the ceilings.
Finalization of the general calendar for the last year of the project:
– A volume in October 2024 with 5-6 case studies, 5-6 thematic approaches (such as ceiling and gender, staircase and ceiling, iconography of the fall, etc.) 5-6 articles on digital, plus a large synthesis essay resulting from an internal seminar for the whole team (in September) and international presentations during the year. Each member of the team has one or two publications.
– Final colloquium based on this plural reflection with an opening to other countries, February 2025 and publication (delivered for printing) end of March 2025.

Decision to publish the December 2021 colloquium, Plafonds peints en Europe (XIVe-XXIe siècles): formes, fonctions, fictions.

2022 10 November: Meeting of project leaders, management team, data entry team: exchange on the database.

2022 28 October: Meeting of the French working team on the database: update on the data processing, verification of the files by videoconference.

2022 18 October: Finalization of the December days in Munich

2022 23 September: Meeting of the French team working on the database: update on the data processing, verification of files by video conference.

2022 2 September: Meeting of the French team with François Guéna and Frédérique Bertrand for the 3D restitution of the gallery of the Château de Choisy.

2022 29 July: following the first entries, slight modifications to the database.

2022 26 July: Training session for the French team on database entry.

2022 22 July: Finalization of the December 2022 seminar in Munich.

2022 21 July: Visit to the Mona Hess laboratory in Bamberg by part of the French team with Matteo Burioni.

2022 18 July: Finalization of the the list of fields in the database.

2022 29-30 June: Project launch days in Versailles, thanks to the hospitality of the CRCV. Program here.
The days allowed to present the project and the database, to collect opinions and to enrich the survey. Meeting of the project management team to partially modify the project following the discussions of these days.

2022 13-15 June: Day of visits and workshops around Berlin, at the invitation of Christoph Martin Vogtherr, president of the Prussian Castle and Garden Foundation, Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG): studies of the ceilings of Potsdam, Rheinsberg, Charlottenburg, and seminar on the documentation of the ceilings at the SPSG with Samuel Wittwer.

2022 April-June: Development of the Franco-German database for the project. (structure, list of fields, list of values, input mode).

2022 4 April: Meeting of the project management team to validate the last points concerning the launch days in June in Versailles and to finalise the schedule of tasks until December 2022.

2022 1 April: Official starting day of the project.

2022 31 March: Presentation of the project by its initiators in a videoconference to all members then involved in the project.

2022 17 March: Meeting with Olivier Bonfait-François Guéna to finalise the French side of the 3D project.

2022 February: Scanning campaign of the Ansbach residence, Matteo Burioni and Mona Hess

2022

2021 27 December: Meeting with Matteo Burioni-Mona Hess to develop the German side of the 3D project.

2021 2-3 December: Colloquium: Painted Ceilings in Europe (14th- 21st centuries): Forms, Functions, Fictions, at the DFK, with 20 participants from 5 different countries, and various visits of monuments: https://dfk-paris.org/fr/event/plafonds-peints-en-europe-xive-xxie-si%C3%A8cles-formes-fonctions-fictions-2885.html
Meeting of the Plafond-3D Team in Paris: general calendar of the 3 years.

2021 23 November/13 December: Notification of the award of the ANR-DFG for the Plafond-3D project. The project will start on 1 April 2022. Its duration is 3 years.

2021 11 March: Submission of the ANR-DFG project, with a requested budget of 573,000 euros.

2021 March: Launch by the same project team of the colloquium Plafonds peints en Europe (XIVe-XXIe siècles): formes, fonctions, fictions. If the project is successful, the aim is to have a vision of the challenges of research on ceilings over a long period and to constitute a European network: http://blog.apahau.org/appel-a-communication-plafonds-peints-en-europe-xive-xxie-siecles-formes-fonctions-fictions/

2021 19 February: A meeting with various French participants (curators of the ministère de la Culture, specialists in the history of ceilings, or court culture in the modern period) test the research interest and validity of the project. In Germany, various research institutes and specialists in visual culture or French-German artistic relations are also contacted.

2021

2020 December-2021 February: Constitution of the 3D part of the project: consultations with different experts, proposals to different specialized laboratories, agreement with Mona Hess, Professor of Digital Heritage Sciences at the University of Bamberg in Germany, and François Guéna, Scientific Director of the MAP-MAACC laboratory in France

2020 November-2021 March: Munich-Paris (by videoconference) development of the Plafond-3D research project.

2020 November-2020 December: Agreement of the institutions that would carry the project: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, UMR 7366 LIR3S (University of Burgundy-CNRS).

2020 October: Munich-Paris (by videoconference): constitution of the Plafond-3D project team, with Bénédicte Gady, curator Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, Thomas Kirchner, Director of the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Matthieu Lett, lecturer, Université de Bourgogne.

2020 October: Scanning campaign at the Great Garden Palace in Dresden, Matteo Burioni and Mona Hess

2020 July: Idea to submit an ANR-DFG dossier on painted ceilings. Discussions Olivier Bonfait, Professor of Modern Art History, Université de Bourgogne, Matteo Burioni, Coordinator, Corpus of Baroque Ceilings in Germany of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

2020