International Scholarly Conference 'The Same Yet Different: Copy, Imitation, and Forgery in Visual Art'
14–16 October, 2026
PROGRAMME
Sessions will be held in Lithuanian and English
Wednesday, 14 October
9:00 Registration. Morning coffee
9:20 Welcome address
9:40 Plenary paper
Dr Alexander Röstel
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Beyond the Original. Repetition, Replication, and Reinvention: Perspectives from Berlin
Session I. Authenticity and Replicas of Sacred Images
Moderated by Dalia Vasiliūnienė
10:25 Dr Tomas Riklius
Vilnius University
The Authentic Copy in the Post-Tridentine Aesthetic Theory
10:45 PhD Student Daiva Vaišnorienė
Vytautas Magnus University
Traditions of Devotion to St Catherine of Alexandria in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Post-Tridentine Period: Iconography and Imitation of Images
11:05 Coffee break
Session II. The Identity of Miraculous Images: The Case of Vilnius
Moderated by Dr Tojana Račiūnaitė
11:45 Dr habil. Rūta Janonienė and Rūta Kasiulytė
The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and Pranas Gudynas Conservation Centre of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
Painting “Our Lady of Sokal” in the Bernardine Church of Vilnius
12:05 Dr Jurgita Kristina Pačkauskienė
Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science
The Icon of the Mother of God of Vilnius: The Problem of Image Identity
12:25 Karolina Koroliova-Barkova
Church Heritage Museum
Copies and Derivatives in the Painting Collection of the Vilnius Benedictine Convent
12.45 Lunch break
Session III. The Culture of Copying in 17th- and 18th-Century Art
Moderated by Dr Giedrė Mickūnaitė
14:00 Dalia Tarandaitė
The Lithuanian National Museum of Art
Three 17th-Century Cabinet Pictures in the Collection of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
14:20 Dr Irena Vaišvilaitė
Vilnius University
Why Are There So Many Copies, Derivatives, and Paraphrases in the Oeuvres of Szymon Czechowicz and Franciszek Smuglewicz, and What Does This Reveal About the Artistic Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th Century?
14.40 Coffee break
15:00 Dr Aistė Paliušytė
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
Understandings of Authenticity in the Culture of the Radziwiłł Court in the 18th Century
15:20 Dr Regina Dmowska
The Royal Castle in Warsaw – Museum
The Pitfalls of Attribution: The Case of Three Versions of the Portrait of Prince Józef Poniatowski Painted by Marcello Bacciarelli and the Copyists at the Royal Malarnia in Warsaw in the Late 18th Century
15:40 Virginija Liūgienė and Dr Sigita Maslauskaitė-Mažylienė
Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta; Vilnius Academy of Arts and Pranas Gudynas Conservation Centre of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
The Same Yet Different St Casimir. Painting “The Blessed Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus and St Casimir” by Saverio Dalla Rosa
16:00 Discussion
17:00 Guided tour of the Old Masters exhibition at the Radvila Palace Museum of Art
Thursday, 15 October
9:00 Morning coffee
Session IV. Research into Authenticity and Restoration Practices
Moderated by Ingrida Bagočiūnienė
9:20 Tomas Ručys
Pranas Gudynas Conservation Centre of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
Conclusions of Multispectral Imaging Results on Painting Attributed to the Environment of Roman Painters of the First Half of the 17th Century, Based on Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art
9:40 Dr Stefania De Blasi
Centro Conservazione Restauro La Venaria Reale
Giuseppe Molteni (1801–1864): Restoration of Copies and Copies for Restoration. Authenticity in the 19th-Century Italian History of Conservation
10:00 Austėja Janušaitė
Pranas Gudynas Conservation Centre of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Case of the “Dead” Dress. Silk Weighting With Metal Salts from the Late 19th to the Early 20th Century
10:20 Coffee break
Session V. Questions of Replicas, Forgeries, and Authorship in Decorative Art and Sculpture
Moderated by Dr Jurgita Ludavičienė, Dr Dainius Labeckis
10:40 Dr Ieva Rusteikaitė
Vilnius University Library
Decoration of 16th- and 17th-Century Bindings of Books from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: European Patterns and Local Variants
11:00 Dr Rasa Gliebutė and Violeta Kisielienė
The National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania / Lithuanian Assay Office
Imitations and Simulants: Gemstones in Archaeological Material (15th–17th Centuries)
11:20 PhD Student Monika Sudintaitė
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute; Samogitian Museum Alka
Between Trust and Belief: The Shifting Identity of Sacred Goldsmith’s Works in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
11:40 Lunch break
13:00 PhD Student Sanita Bitko
The Art Academy of Latvia
The Same or Merely Similar? 3D Data-Based Analysis of the Artistic Hand in 17th–18th Century Sacred Sculpture in Latvia
13:20 PhD Student Olha Apenko
The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts
Fakes and Pastiches in the Khanenko Museum Collection of European Applied Arts
13:40 Coffee break
Session VI. The Dissemination of Images: From Engraving to Architecture
Moderated by Dr Ewa Manikowska
14:00 Dr Vija Strupule
Institute of Art History of the Latvian Academy of Arts
Engraved Copies of Works by European Artists as a Pattern for Riga’s Interior Painting of the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries in the Practice of the Workshop of the Painter’s Guild Master Cord Meyer
14:20 Aleksandra Murre
Kadriorg Art Museum – Art Museum of Estonia Foundation
The Migration of Images and the Transformation of Meanings: The Iconography of the Ceiling Paintings of Kadriorg Palace
14:40 PhD Student Ramunė Savickaitė
The Institute of Art Research of Vilnius Academy of Arts
What Does Panemunis Manor Copy? The Adaptation of Historical Styles as an Expression of a Romantic Approach
15:00 Dr habil. Ojārs Spārītis
The Art Academy of Latvia
New Church Interiors in Latvian Sacral Ecosystem: Arts and Crafts in Contemporary Culture
15:20 Discussion
Friday, 16 October
9:00 Morning coffee
Session VII. Authenticity in the Museum and the Art Market
Moderated by Dr Algė Andriulytė
9:20 Asta Junevičienė
National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Original or Forgery? Copies, Imitations, Usurpations, and Forgeries of Ancient Egyptian Artefacts: From Ancient Egypt to Museum Collections
9:40 Dr Baiba Vanaga
Latvian National Museum of Art
Copying, Forgeries, and Questions of Authenticity During the Early Years of the Riga City Art Museum (1905–1919)
10:00 Dr Simona Skaisgirė
Vilnius Auction House
“Dubito”: Doubt as the Starting Point of Art-Market Expertise. The Role of Expert Opinion in the Attribution of Works of Art
10:20 Coffee break
Session VIII. Workshops, Prints, and Self-Repetition
Moderated by Dr Aistė Bimbirytė
10:40 Dr Greta Koppel
Kadriorg Art Museum – Art Museum of Estonia Foundation
Multiple Originals, Authentic Copies – Workshop Production in Early Modern Times. Case Studies from the Collection of the Art Museum of Estonia
11:00 PhD Student Miłosz Kargol
Doctoral School in the Humanities, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, The Princes Czartoryski Museum – National Museum in Krakow
Between Imitatio and Aemulatio: The Role of Prints in Stanisław Samostrzelnik’s Painting
11:20 Dr Agnieszka Świętosławska
Institute of Art History at the University of Lodz
Copying Oneself: Self-Replication and Self-Quotation in the Work of Feliks Pęczarski
11:40 Lunch break
Session IX. 20th- and 21st-Century Copies: From Reproduction to Artificial Intelligence
Moderated by PhD Student Gabrielė Radzevičiūtė
13:00 PhD Student Domas Junelis
Vilnius University
Appearance Without Essence? The Production of Original, Copy, and Value
13:20 PhD Student Indrė Urbelytė
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
The Phenomenon of Reproductions of Paintings in the Lithuanian SSR During the Early Soviet Period
13:40 Dr Rasa Dargužaitė
The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
“Beauty for the Household”: The Question of the Authorship and Value of Artistically Crafted Objects From the Soviet Era
14:00 PhD Student Milena Černiakaitė
The Institute of Art Research of Vilnius Academy of Arts
Algorithmic Workshops and Digital Followers: The Artistic Practice of avocado_ibuprofen
14:20 Coffee break
14:40 Discussion and closing remarks „Invenit. Fecit. Questions of Originality and Authorship in the Visual Arts“
Participants: Dr Irena Vaišvilaitė, Dr Alexander Röstel, Dr Ewa Manikowska
15:00 Guided tour of the Vilnius Picture Gallery
Organiser
Vilnius Picture Gallery of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
Conference Organising and Academic Committee:
Dr. Algė Andriulytė
Dr. Aistė Bimbirytė
Lina Jurnienė
PhD Student Gabija Kasparavičiutė-Kaminskienė
Dr. Dainius Labeckis
Dr. Ewa Manikowska
Dalia Tarandaitė
Dr. Joana Vitkutė
