Program
XVIIth International Liturgical Conference
ALTAR
Recent acquisitions, new questions
BOSE, 30 May- 1 June 2019
PROGRAM
Thursday, 30 May
9:30
Opening of the Conference
Enzo Bianchi, Founder of Bose
Valerio Pennasso, Director of the National Office for the Church’s Cultural Patrimony and of the National Service for Construction of Buildings of Worship
Giuseppe Cappochin, President of the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, and Conservators
From wooden table to stone altar and from the triclinium to the temple
New Testament foundations
Martin Ebner, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
The birth of the Christian altar
New archeological testimonies
Manuele Gianandrea, Sapienza University Rome
Elisabetta Scirocco, Max-Planck Institute for Art History Rome
15:30
Organization of liturgical spaces in the 14th–16th centuries
Recent historical findings
Gianmario Guidarelli, University of Padua
Baroque inheritance and the needs of today’s liturgy
Dominik Jurczak, Pontifical Liturgical Institute S. Anselmo, Rome
Friday, 31 May
9:30
Liturgical theology and images of the altar
Giuliano Zanchi, Adriano Bernareggi Diocesan Museum, Bergamo
Recent emphasis on the importance of the altar in Swiss Protestantism
Johannes Stückelberger, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern
15:30
The altar between designer and serial production
Michele De Lucchi, Architect, Milan
Artistic search and functionality
Micol Forti, Vatican Museums Vatican City
Altar and ambo
Recent examples
Bert Daelemans, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid
Saturday, 1 June
Altar, assembly, baptistery
The architect in dialogue with the theologian
Jean-Marie Duthilleul, Architect Paris
Gilles Drouin, Institut Supérieur de Liturgie Paris
Ideas of altar
Ignacio Vicens y Hualde, Architect Madrid
Art and liturgy
Ettore Spalletti, Artist, Cappelle sul Tavo
Concluding theses