10.00–14.30, 29th November, 2018

THE INTERDISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

Entrance: free

VENUE: The Art Museum BOURSE, Doma laukums 6, Conference Hall (3rd floor) MODERATED BY Daiga Upeniece, Head of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE, Curator of the exhibition “Baltic Oaks”

PROGRAMME: 9.30–10.00 Registration

10.00–10.10 OPENING SPEECH Arvīds Ozols, Director of the Forest Department at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of

10.10–10.40 WHY BALTIC OAKS? THE CONTENT AND THE ESSENCE OF THE PROJECT Daiga Upeniece, Head of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE, Curator of the exhibition “Baltic Oaks”

10.40–11.10 LATVIAN OAK TREES ON THEIR WAY TO THE WESTERN EUROPEAN ARTISTS’ WORKSHOPS: EXPORT OF TIMBER FROM THE TERRITORY OF LATVIA TO THE IN THE 16–17th CENTURY Dr.hist. Andris Šnē, Associate Professor at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of Latvia

11.10–11.40 THE USE OF THE BALTIC OAK FOR THE PAINTING PANELS BY DUTCH AND FLEMISH OLD MASTERS: THE FIRST ATTEMPT AT THE DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION IN LATVIA Dr. biol. Māris Zunde, Head of the Dendrochronological Laboratory of the Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia

11.40–12.10 THE DETERMINATION OF THE WOOD ORIGINS WITH THE METHODS OF DNA ANALYSIS Dr.biol. Dainis Ruņģis, Senior Researcher at the Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava"

12.10–12.50 Coffee break

12.50–13.20 INSIGHTS INTO THE OPTICAL STRUCTURES OF THE 16th AND 17th CENTURIES DUTCH AND FLEMISH PAINTINGS Andris Začests, Head of the Department of Restoration at the Art Academy of Latvia

13.20–13.50 RESTORATION OF THE PAINTING “ALLEGORY OF MERCY” BY SCHOOL OF MARTEN DE VOS (1532–1603) Nataļja Kurganova, Conservator of Paintings at the Latvian National Museum of Art

13.50–14.30 Closing remarks and discussions Conference languages: Latvian, English

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Daiga Upeniece (+371) 67 228776, [email protected] Lilita Pudule (+371) 67 223434, [email protected] www.lnmm.lv

Salomon van Ruysdael (1600/1603–1670). River Landscape. Oil on panel. 35,8 x 49,6 cm. Detail. Latvian National Museum of Art. The collection of Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo (1779–1862)