Call for Papers - Second Vatican Coffin Conference 6 - 9 June 2017 - Deadline 1 March 2017
Pubblicato: Mercoledì 1 febbraio 2017
The Egyptian Department and the Diagnostic Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration of the Musei Vaticani, in collaboration with all the team of the Vatican Coffin Project, are pleased to invite you to attend the ‘Second Vatican Coffin Conference’ (6-9 June 2017).
The themes of the conference focus on decorated wooden coffins, with no time restriction:
● Funerary practices, iconography, symbolism, ideology, technology
● Conservation
● Diagnostic and technologies applied to the study of decorated wooden coffins
The Call and the Registration form can be found on the Musei Vaticani website.