CFP | Baroque mural and ceiling painting in the making | until 30 April 2025

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Cyrillo Volkmar Machado, The Portuguese Heroes, 1798. National Palace of Mafra, Room of Discoveries

 

Baroque mural and ceiling painting in the making:

The multiple roles of drawings in the process of production, presentation and reception of wall and ceiling painting

5 – 9 November 2025

​Lisbon

 

The Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory will host the Annual Meeting of the Research Group for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe (BCPCE), in Lisbon. The programme includes the BCPCE Workshop and a three-days visit of Lisbon’s churches and palaces, and the National Palace of Mafra, to study the ceiling paintings of Cyrillo Volkmar Machado in situ.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Art historians and other researchers interested in wall and ceiling painting, especially of the baroque period, are invited to the Workshop Baroque mural and ceiling painting in the making – The multiple roles of drawings in the process of production, presentation and reception of wall and ceiling paintings. The Workshop, focused on function of drawings in producing of ceiling paintings and their role in transfering of artistic ideas among artists`workshops, and patrons, provides opportunity to share knowledge in this field of research. In this way, we will try to analyse the ambivalent character of drawing as a form of presentation to clients, but also as a primary source of the artist’s thoughts and reflections in the process of the effective materialisation of an idea.

Members of the BCPCE, and the IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST are invited to submit proposals for presentations in the following themes:
  • Sketches, drawings of single figures or for entire compositions and their role in the process of preparing a mural or ceiling painting
  • Presentation drawings made to impress present or future patrons, or in the course of a competition
  • Drawings for architectural or quadratura painting, for painted frames or stucco decorations
  • Workshop practice, sketch books, collections of drawings and copies
  • Cartoons used and ruined in the process of preparing a wall – or a ceiling painting
  • Underdrawings, and traces of drawing and outlining during the production process of mural paintings
  • Drawings after mural paintings by other artists, or after engraving
  • Drawings collections, engravings after drawings for mural paintings 
Proposals submission: until 30 April 2025
Contact: workshop.bcpce.2025@gmail.com
 
All the information here: https://bcpce-workshop.weebly.com/

 

​Banner image: ​Cyrillo Volkmar Machado, drawing for the ceiling painting in the Room of Discoveries, 1798. National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon