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Palladio's Rome

Exhibition: Palladio’s Rome
and
Conference:
Before and after Palladio’s Rome: antiquarianism from Antiquity to the nineteenth century.

The British School at Rome,
Wednesday February 20th to Thursday 21st February,
2008


Wednesday 20th
18.00: Lecture:

Mark Wilson Jones (University of Bath)
The Pantheon and the idea of Rome from Palladio to today

 followed by the opening of the exhibition Palladio’s Rome

organized by Vaughan Hart (University of Bath) and Peter Hicks (Fondation Napoléon), with technical assistance from Alan Day

Thursday 21st

Morning Session: Antiquity to the Renaissance.
 
9.45: Welcome and Introduction. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill/Susan Russell

Chair: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.

10.00-10.30: Christopher Smith (St. Andrews): Varro and the Contours of Roman Antiquarianism

10.30-11.00: Robert Coates-Stephens (British School at Rome): Statue display in post-Classical Rome

11.00-11.15: Coffee break

Chair: Vaughan Hart

11.15-11.45: Clare Lapraik Guest (Agder University Kristiansand): Architectural treatises in the circle of Palladio: Barbaro, Scamozzi and the use of Aristotle

1.45-12.15: Robert Gaston (La Trobe): Pirro Ligorio’s encyclopaedic antiquarianism: Ms. Napoli XIII. B. IX re-examined

12.15-12.45: Ginette Vagenheim (Rouen): Ligorio and Hadrian’s Villa

12.45-13.00: Discussion

13.00: Lunch

Afternoon Session: Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century

Chair: David Marshall

14.30-15.00: Ingo Herklotz (Marburg):
The Fortune of Thomas Dempster's 'Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus', or, How an Antiquarian Bestseller ended up on the Roman Index

15.00-15.30: Susan Russell (British School at Rome): Antiquarianism and the Villa Pamphilj on the Janiculum Hill

15.30-16.00: Lisa Beaven (La Trobe): Cardinal Camillo Massimo, Francesco da Hollanda and the Golden House of Nero

16.00-16.15: Tea break

Chair:  Mark Wilson Jones

16.15 -16.45: David Marshall (Melbourne): Order and the Fragment from Codazzi to Piranesi

16.45-17.15: Rosemary Sweet (Leicester): Antiquaries and tourists in the long eighteenth century

17.15-17.45: Frank Salmon (Cambridge): Palladio, Antiquity and Britain

17.45-18.00: Discussion

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