1st European Symposium on Drugs & Colors in History:

from the past to the present

Revisiting ancient Pharmacies, Apothecaries, Spezierias & Workshops

2021 Symposium Program

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Botanical Garden of Valencia, Universitat de València

8:30

Accreditation and registration

9:30

Presentation of the International Symposium

Ester Alba Pagán

Vicerrectora de Cultura y Deportes, Universitat de València, Spain

Rosa Esteban Esteban

Directora de l'Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Spain

Yolanda Gil Saura

Directora del Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de València, Spain

Antonio González Bueno

Director del Museo de la Farmacia Hispana, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Antonio Barone

Direttore della Rotta dei Fenici, Council of Europe

Ma Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de València, Spain
Directora Científica del Proyecto de Investigación Roma Hispana: spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala, Roma, Italy

Symposium 1. The spezieria of Santa Maria della Scala, Rome

Moderator: Lucía Rojo Iranzo, Universitat de València

10:00

Master lecture: Santa Maria della Scala: past, present and future of a pilot project in Rome

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

11:00

The Santa Maria della Scala project on stage: social networks as a tool for academic diffusion

Cristina Expósito de Vicente, Simona Tardi

Universitat de València, Spain

11:20

Coffee Break

Moderator: Simona Tardi, Universitat de València, Spain

11:40

Cataloging of cultural property preserved in the spezieria of Santa Maria della Scala, Rome: procedures and results

Susana Herreras Sala

Universitat de València, Spain

Antonio Sánchez García

Escola d´Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Spain

12:00

The herbarium 1 of Santa Maria della Scala. Cultural study and preventive conservation of a historical source on plant materia medica in baroque Rome

Susana Herreras Sala, Lucía Rojo Iranzo

Universitat de València, Spain

Antonio Sánchez García

Escola d´Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Spain

12:20

Ancient recipes and remedies from the apothecary of Santa Maria della Scala in Rome

Isabella Leone

Centro Universitario Cattolico di Roma, Italy

12:40

Mineral Pigments, Gems, Salts and Medicines at the 17th Century Santa Maria della Scala Pharmacy in Rome

Giovanni Cavallo

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

13:00

Investigation on the composition of Historical Remedies: from the Ancient Organic Compounds to the Modern Ones

Giulia C. Lodi, Francesca C. Izzo

Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

13:20

Discrimination by UV-vis Reflectance Diffuse Spectrometry of the Organic Content of Several Drugs Conserved at Santa Maria della Scala, Rome: from the Past to Modern Age

Giulia C. Lodi

Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy

Neus Jornet-Martínez, Rosa Herráez-Herández, Pilar Campíns-Falcó

Universitat de València, Spain

13:40

The woods of the spezieria of Santa Maria della Scala

Mauro Bernabei, Jarno Bontadi, Nicola Macchioni

Institute of Bioeconomy - National Research Council, Italy

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

14:00

Lunch

Moderator: Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

16:20

Characterization by different Laser Spettroscopies of Ancient Chemicals with Know Dual Use

Roberta Fantoni

ENEA, Fusion and Nuclear Security and Safety Department; Physical Technologies Division, Frascati, Italy

16:40

Virtual Reconstruction Methodologies in Architectural Spaces: The Experience of the spezieria of Santa Maria della Scala in Rome

Sergio Ferrero Gil, Miguel Ángel García Oliver, Rafael Garay Peset, Juan Manuel Gil Bordallo

Escola d´Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Spain

Juan Carlos Izquierdo Garay

Escola d´Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Spain
run & run creative design studio, València, Spain

Moderator: Miquel Ángel Herrero-Cortell, Universitat Politècnica de València

17:00

"Aromas Itinerarium Salutis". La spezieria de Santa Maria della Scala, Rome: origin and starting point of the first European cultural route on Heritage, Aroma and Health

Simona Tardi, Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Cristina Expósito de Vicente

Universitat de València, Spain

Nuria Blaya Estrada

Florida Universitaria, València, Spain
Strada Experiencias Culturales, València, Spain

17:20

Cultural itineraries experienced. Strada cultural experiences as a platform for the “Aromas Itinerarium Salutis”: The European journey through time and the senses

Nuria Blaya Estrada

Florida Universitaria, València, Spain
Strada Experiencias Culturales, València, Spain

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Simona Tardi, Cristina Expósito de Vicente

Universitat de València, Spain

17:40

The network of values: the case of the cultural routes of the Council of Europe

Antonio Barone

Direttore della Rotta dei Fenici-Council of Europe

18:00

Coffee Break

Moderator: Ma. Antonia Zalbidea Muñoz, Universitat Politècnica de València

18:20

Physicochemical identification and historical study of simples y compuestos in the Catalan apothecary of Ferrer Puigcerda (18th century): a pilot project in the Museum of the Hispanic Pharmacy of Madrid

Alejandra Gómez Martín, Antonio González Bueno

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Lucía Rojo Iranzo, Susana Herreras Sala, Cristina Expósito de Vicente, Simona Tardi, Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

18:40

Drugs and Colors in Santa Maria della Scala, Rome: tradition and innovation

M. Romani L. Pronti, G. Viviani, M. Cestelli-Guidi

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati, Rome

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

19:00

Risk and Vulnerability Analysis in the Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala, Rome

Rocio Ortiz Calderón, Pilar Ortiz Calderón, Mónica Moreno Falcón, Javier Becerra Luna

Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

19:20

Mass Spectrometry studies of Theriac, an old sample from Spezieria di Santa Maria Della Scala in Rome

Luisa Mattoli, E. Flamini, M. Burico, Annalisa Cantarini, Valentino Mercati

Aboca Spa. Società Agricola, Italy

Rita Pagiotti

Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

P. Traldi

Fondazione Istituto di Ricerca Pediatrica Città della Speranza, Padova, Italy

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny, València

Symposium 2. Colors throught history

Moderator: Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Universitat de València

09:20

Master lecture: On the Life of a Scriptorium: Unveiling the Interdisciplinary Study of the ALC.433 Manuscript and its Unique Chronological Record of the Work at the Portuguese Scriptoria-UM of Alcobaça

Catarina Miguel, Shatila Fitri

Universidade Évora, Portugal

Conceição Casanova, Catarina Barreira

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Moderator: Susana Herreras Salas

10:20

“Dreaming Colors”. The curative symbolism of colors in Artemidoro de Daldis´s Oneirocriticism and its Pervivence in Art History

Esther Alba Pagán, Miquel Requena Jiménez

Universitat de València, Spain

10:40

The Colours of Death: Geo-Chronological Perspectives on Shrouds Decoration in Roman Egypt

Jónatan Ortiz García

Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Amparo Mateo Donet

Universitat de València, Spain

11:00

Coffee Break

Moderator: Juan Carlos Izquierdo Garay, EASD-València

11:20

Image Spectroscopy to Support the Identification of Ancient Pigments and Dyes

Marcello Picollo, Costanza Cucci, Andrea Casini, Lorenzo Stefani

Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara” del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy

11:40

“De diversis artibus”, a cookbook of artistic technology for the study of medieval varnishes

María Antonia Zalbidea Muñoz

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Jakub Zelazowski

Independent scholar

Francisco Javier Lorente Puchades

Independent scholar

Miquel Àngel Herrero-Cortell

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

12:00

Color: vehicle of light in the medieval polychrome stone sculpture of the Balearic Island

Lucia Bosch Rubio, Manuel Jardón Cabezas

Servicios de Conservación y Restauración, Son Companys, Spain

Davide Melica

Diagnostica per la conservazione e il restauro, Copertino, Italy

María Auxiliadora Gómez-Morrón

Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico, Sevilla, Spain

Pilar Ortíz Calderón

Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

12:20

Mapping the colours of early modern devotion: a hyperspectral imaging approach for the investigation of 16th-century printed Books of Hours

Silvia Bottura Scardina, Catarina Miguel

Universidade Évora, Portugal

12:40

“De Cognicione Coloris”: technical precepts from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries for the recognition of pigments

Miquel Àngel Herrero-Cortell

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

13:00

Multi-Analytical Characterization of Valencian Artist' Palette from the XIX-XX Centuries: The case studies of L'Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Spain

Silvia Caravà, Francesca C. Izzo

Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy

Clodoaldo Roldán García, Sonia Murcia Mascarós, Ma Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

13:20

Organic and inorganic components present in the production of writing inks

Gemma María Contreras Zamorano

Institut Valencià de Conservació, Restauració i Investigació, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain

13:45

Lunch

Moderator: Antonio Sánchez García, EASD-València

15:40

Color and funeral cosmetics in Teotihuacan (Mexico): uses, raw materials and chromatic structures

Ángela Ejarque Gallardo, Carlos López Puértolas

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

16:00

Colors and Aromatics in Ancient Maya Rituals: The Study of Human Painted Bones Fragments

Carolina Rigon, Francesca C. Izzo

Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

16:20

Ma-XRF: A New Method to Identify and Image Paintings Mixtures. Some case studies from Raphael to Caravaggio

Marco Cardinali

Emmebi Diagnostica Artistica, Roma, Italy
Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy

16:40

“Mettere la tavolozza in ordine” in a 17th century workshop in Rome: pigments, mixtures, recommendations through Richard Symonds' Notebook on Giovanni Angelo Canini's painting

Maria Beatrice De Ruggieri

Emmebi Diagnostica Artistica, Roma, Italy
Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Italy

17:00

Coffee Break

Moderator: Rafael Garay Peset, EASD-València

17:20

The Scientific Inventory of Almada Negreiros’ Painting Materials. Phase 1: Powder Pigments from Lefranc-Paris-Couleurs pour La Fresque

Milene Gil, Mafalda Costa, Sara Valadas, Ana Cardoso

Universidade Évora, Portugal

17:40

Mexican colors in the cross of the Nazarene in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain

Ana García Barrios

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

Rocío Ortiz Calderón, Pilar Ortiz Calderón

Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, Spain

Juan José Delgado Aguilera

Museo de El Puerto de Santamaria, Cádiz, Spain

18:00

Tarahumaras & color

Karla Muñoz Alcocer

Misiones Coloniales de Chihuahua, México & Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

Laura Fuster López

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Universitat de València, Spain

Iriana Serna Frescas, Froylán Rascón Gutiérrez, Daniel Salazar Aleman, Eric Estrada Loya

Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

18:20

The symbolism of the chromatisms in the floral ornamentation of the rocks and other allegorical elements of the Corpus Christi festival in Valencia

Antoni Colomina Subiela, Vicente Guerola Blay

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

18:40

Fortuny Museum in Venice. Belle Epoque Laboratory

María Roca Cabrera

Universitat de València, Spain

19:00

Colour names: history, evolution and multilingualism in textiles

Ester Alba Pagán, Mar Gaitán Salvatella, Arabella León, Eliseu M. Roig, Jorge Sebastián

Universitat de València, Spain

Marie Puren, Pierre Vernus

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Lyon Saint Etienne, France

Georgia lo Cicero, Maurizio Vitella

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

19:20

Color research of historical silk textiles

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Lucía Rojo Iranzo, Rosa Herráez-Hernández, Pilar Campíns-Falcó

Universitat de València, Spain

FRIDAY 22, 2021

La Nau Cultural Center, Universitat de València

Symposium 3. Drugs through history

Moderator: Sergio Ferrero Gil, EASD-València

09:20

Master lecture: Natural Dyes Used in Painting, Food and Drugs

Claudia Pelosi, Luca Lanteri

Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy

Moderator: Juan Manuel Gil Bordallo, EASD-València

10:20

Psychoactive Plants in Medicine: Cannabis sativa History

Eva Luna Muñoz Vidal

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Cristina Vidal Lorenzo

Universitat de València, Spain

10:40

The Contribution of Physical Chemistry to Philology: the example of the names of ancient collyria evoking colours

Muriel Labonnelie

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

11:00

Coffee Break

Moderator: Antonio Barone, Direttore della Rotta dei Fenici-Council of Europe

11:20

Magic and Medicine in the Hebrew Biblical Text: The Books of Kings

Claudia Muñoz Riesco

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

11:40

Biblical purple-blue (tekhelet): chromatic border between magic and ritual

Cristina Expósito de Vicente

Universitat de València, Spain

12:00

Colors or Drugs? Plants and Vegetal Dyes in the Mycenaean ‘perfumed’ oil on Pylos Tablets

Rachele Pierini

Università di Bologna, Italy

12:20

Drugs & Colors in the Greek Papyri from Egypt: The Case of φάρμακον

Nicola Reggiani

Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy

12:40

Plants in ancient Greek World. Therapeutic Ritual Food uses and others more

Marina Rubinich

Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

13:00

Perfumes and ointments in Pompeii. From Hellenistic times to the eruption of AD 79

Jean-Pierre Brun

College de France, París, France

Macarena de los Santos Bustamante Álvarez

Universidad de Granada, Spain

Albert Ribera i Lacomba

Institut Català d’Arqueología Clàssica, Tarragona, Spain

13:20

From the apothecary to the painter workshop: The apothecaries who sold materials to the painters of the Crown of Aragon during the low Middle Ages.

Carmel Ferragud

Universitat de València, Spain

Carme Llanes

Independent Scholar

13:40

“E farà aquell d´or fi, azur d’acre e altres colors bons e fins”. The “apothecaries” in medieval Valencia: The pigment trade through Valencian documentation

Nuria Ramón Marqués, Joan Aliaga-Morell

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

14:00

Lunch

Moderator: Cristina Expósito de Vicente, Universitat de València

16:20

Wax and chocolate: the apothecary of the Franciscan Fathers of Grace between ex voto and gluttony

Paola Artoni

Università di Verona, Italy

16:40

Alchemists at the Court of Gonzaga and Mantuan apothecaries

Paolo Bertelli

Complesso Museale Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, Italy

17:00

From 'Stibio' to antimonial drugs: in search of miraculous medicinal remedies

María Julia Martínez García

Independent Scholar

17:20

Diagnosis of the state of conservation of the wooden shelves and their surroundings in three museum pharmacies in the Historic Center of Havana, Cuba

Alina Romeo Sáez

Oficina del Historiador de La Habana, Cuba

Betzaida Rodríguez Rosales, Dahimi Abreu Gibert

Universidad de Las Artes, La Habana, Cuba

17:40

Coffe Break

Moderator: Sergio Ferrero Gil

18:00

Colors on clay in Teotihuacan architecture

Jorge Martínez Sala

Universitat de València

18:20

Flavors and smells in the mud. Study of American vases in the Spanish collections

Andrés Gutiérrez, Asunción Rivera, María Barrigón, Carmen Rodríguez y Carolina Notario

Museo de América de Madrid, Spain

18:40

Taste and colour: spices in the traditional Alicante recipes

Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Ángeles Ruiz García, María Tormo Santamaria

Universidad de Alicante, Spain

19:00

Ad faciendum colors. Between spices and gems: Workshop on the manufacture of pigments, dyes and historical lacquers

SATURDAY 23, 2021

11:00

Ciencia y Creencia: tejiendo relatos entre arte, ciencia y salud en el patrimonio valenciano

Nuria Blaya Estrada

Florida Universitaria, València, Spain
Strada Experiencias Culturales, València, Spain