Conceived as an extension of the exhibition Après Michel-Ange, this event brings together a series of talks designed to shed light on the contemporary and educational value that Xavier Sigalon’s copy of *The Last Judgement* – on display in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins since 1837 – may hold today. All the talks will take place in this chapel.

Scientific committee: Alessandro Gallicchio (Villa Medici), France Nerlich (Musée d’Orsay), Guillaume Paris (Beaux-Arts de Paris) and Sara Vitacca (University of Besançon).

Programme : 

Copying, past and present (9.30am – 12.30pm)
Moderator: Alessandro Gallichio (Art History Advisor, Villa Medici)
• Copying and the vocabulary of reference: a reflection inspired by Michelangelo, by Sara Vitacca (Senior Lecturer, Marie and Louis Pasteur University, Besançon)
• Practices and Values of Copies in the "Museum of Rome" and the migration of models abroad (18th–19th c.) by Carla Mazzarelli (Professor of Art History and Museology, University of Mendrisio)
• On the exhibition Copists at the Centre Pompidou-Metz by Donatien Grau (advisor for contemporary programmes, Musée du Louvre) and Chiara Parisi (director, Centre Pompidou-Metz)
• The value of the copy: hybrid pedagogy, reproduction and international exchanges in contemporary art education by Mick Finch (professor, Central Saint Martins, London)
• Performance: Mickaël and the Angels by Michaël Berdugo

Copying Michelangelo (2.30 pm – 4 pm)
Moderator: France Nerlich (Curator, Centre Daniel Marchesseau, Musée d'Orsay)
• Painted copies based on Michelangelo’s drawings in 19th-century France: reception, dissemination and variations on Michelangelo’s models by Agathe Arrighi (PhD candidate, Sorbonne University)
• Photographed frescoes: which figures in which photographs? by Philippe Jarjat
• The creation, exhibition and study of copies after Michelangelo today by Matthias Wiwel (Head of Research, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Learning and teaching with Michelangelo today (4.00 pm – 5.30 pm)
A round-table discussion moderated by François-René Martin, featuring some of the students and lecturers involved in the project: Pascale Accoyer, Claude Closky, Clément Cogitore, Frédérique Loutz, Jack McNiven, Guillaume Paris, Philippe Renault, Daniel Schlier and Valérie Sonnier.

Performance (18 h)
اپرای مسافرِ بک  / Beckett's travelling opera, A performance-installation by Parisa Mousavi, preceded by a short introduction on Xavier Sigalon’s copy of The Last Judgement by Alice Thomine Berrada (Head of Collections at the Beaux-Arts de Paris) and Alix Laveau (Arts Conservation International).

With the support of the GPR ‘Faire collections’ (PSL).