Gubbio  -  Urbania  -  Faenza 21 - 27 September 1998

(This travelling conference is to be held in a number of cities which are important repositories of 16th century Italian majolica culture: Gubbio, Casteldurante (today Urbania), Faenza.

The conference celebrates a number of events:

1. the five-hundredth anniversary of the year in which the great master of Italian majolica Mastro Giorgio da Gubbio, a Lombard of origin, became a citizen of Gubbio (1498-1998);

2. the initial results of a three-year-long research project on a virtual museum of renaissance majolica in Casteldurante with a summary of the situation regarding ceramological, archivistic, bibliographic, iconographic and archaeological studies;

!3. the exhibition and study of a highly prized collection of majolica masterpieces from various important Italian Renaissance centres made available by the illustrious and noble Strozzi Sacrati family. One of the aims of the Museo di Faenza is to purchase this collection and thereby make it available to the public.

The project involves the participation of scholars from museums in various EU and non-EU countries: the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, the Museo Archeologico e della Ceramica in Montelupo, the Museo Regionale della Ceramica in Deruta, the Museo Nazionale di arte orientale in Rome, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire in Brussels, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in California; Italian scholars and ceramological experts will also be taking part.

The Conference aims to promote interest in Italian ceramic culture among a Europe-wide public, taking into consideration the fact that highly prized exhibits are held in large, medium-sized and small museums throughout Europe and the rest of the world. A particularly stimulating aspect of the conference is that it will include visits to some of the most important centres of Italian ceramic culture.

Prof. Gian Carlo Bojani, director of the Museo Nazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, is responsible for the scientific side of the initiative.

Speakers	Qualification	Place of work
brdrw15 Gian Carlo Bojani	Dirtector	Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza
Elisabetta Alpi	Producer of documentary material	Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza
Fausto Berti	Dirtector	Museo Archeologico e della Ceramica, Montelupo Fiorentino (Florence)
Alessandro Bettini	Ceramologist	Pesaro
Tiziana Biganti	Archivist	Archivio di Stato, Perugia
Giulio Busti	Teacher	Istituto Statale d’Arte, Deruta
Francesco Cioci	!20ang2057 Ceramologist	Ostra (Ancona)
Franco Cocchi	Ceramologist	Deruta
Claire Dumortier	Scholar	Antwerp, Belgium
Anna Lia Ermeti	Teacher of mediaeval archaeology	University of Urbino
Guido Farris	!ng2057 Ceramologist	Genoa
tbl Carola Fiocco	Teacher of history of ceramic art	Istituto d’arte "G. Ballardini", Faenza
Francesca Fumi	Scholar of heraldry	Fiesole
Gabriella Gherardi	Teacher of history of ceramic art; Chairman of Associazione Amici del Museo Nazionale delle Ceramiche	Istituto d’arte "G. Ballardini", Faenza
!g2057 Margherita Gobbi	Scholar of glass	Rimini
Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti	Curator of Retrospective Collections	Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza
Johanna Lessman	Head of European Applied Arts Department	Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Germany)
John Mallet	Scholar, formerly Curator of Ceramic Co!llections	Victoria & Albert Museum, London (England)
Sandra Manara	Scholar	Imola (Bologna)
Davide Mantovani	Historian	Ferrara
Maria Grazia Morganti	History of art teacher	Liceo Classico "E. Torricelli", Faenza
Alessandra Oradei!l pard Bibliographic researcher	Urbania
Roberto Ossani	Computer graphics teacher	Istituto Superiore Industrie Artistiche, Faenza
Riccardo Gresta	Researcher
Paola Roseo	Art historian	Genoa
lang2057 20John T. Spike	Art historian	U.S.A. - Florence
Paola Torre	Curator	Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale, Rome
Jiulia Triolo	Scholar	Rome
Valeria Tassi	Scholar	Florence
France!sco Vossilla	Scholar, Art historian	Florence
Timothy Wilson	Head of Department of Western Art	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (England)
Isabelle Zumste!in	Restorer	Faenza