International symposium
ANTIQVAE FEMINAE:

Ancient Female Sculptural Portraits and their Afterlife - Studies, Analyses and Digital Reconstructions

About the Symposium

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The international symposium ANTIQVAE FEMINAE: Ancient Female Sculptural Portraits and their Afterlife – Studies, Analyses and Digital Reconstructions is hosted by the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is part of the research project PID2022-137896OB-I00 led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and it will take place in the Forum of the Weltmuseum Wien on Heldenplatz in central Vienna.

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The symposium will discuss the classical tradition of female portrait sculpture by examining the presence of such works in archaeological context and collecting history. Our emphasis will be on archaeometric and conservation/restoration analyses, and on exploring the potential of digital technologies for reconstruction and dissemination. With its strong interdisciplinary focus, the symposium will bring together specialists in archaeology, art history, philology, conservation-restoration, stone material analysis, and digital humanities, with the aim of sharing perspectives, methods, and research findings.

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This event will help promote the scholarly exchange between disciplines, and their complementary approaches will result in a richer and more nuanced understanding of the role of female portraiture in Greco-Roman sculpture, its survival into the Early Modern period, and its future projection in the fields of research and cultural heritage dissemination.

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​We invite proposals that address the following main themes:

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A. Sculptural Portraits of Antiquae Feminae in Archaeological and Antiquarian Contexts
B. Iconography, Properties, Messages
C. Conservation/Restoration, Marble Analysis and Polychromy
D. Sculptural Portraits of Antiquae Feminae and Digital Humanities: Reconstruction/Recreation and Dissemination