Susan Russell (British School at Rome) - Welcome

Edward Corp (Université de Toulouse) “Il Palazzo Del Re: Cultural Forum and Surrogate Embassy”

Thursday 16th February

9.30   Morning Session:  Confrontations with the Antique: Old Rome and New Britain
Chair: Susan Russell (British School at Rome)

9.30    David Marshall (University of Melbourne): Introduction
10.00   Edward Chaney (Southampton Solent University): “Before the eighteenth century”
10.25   Elizabeth Bartman (Independent Scholar): “Egypt, Rome, and the Concept of Universal History.”
10.50   Discussion

11.00-11.30     Morning Break

11.30   Malcolm Baker (University of Southern California): “Commemoration ‘in a more grave and durable manner’: Portrait Busts for the British”
11.55   Clare Hornsby (British School at Rome/Paul Mellon Special Fellow): “Was Gavin Hamilton an archaeologist?”
12.20   Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (British School at Rome): “From the Villa Negroni to Ickworth: Romanizing Frescoes”
12.45   Discussion

1pm Lunch Break

2.30     Afternon Session: Constructing the Future on the Ruins of the Past: the British and the Roman Practice of Architecture
Chair: Joseph Connors (Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for the Study of the Italian Renaissance)

2.30     Tommaso Manfredi (Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria): “Roma communis patria: Juvarra e i britannici”
2.55     Katrina Grant (University of Melbourne): “Planting ‘Italian gusto’ in a ‘Gothick country’: the influence of Filippo Juvarra on William Kent.”
3.20     Elizabeth Kieven (Bibliotheca Hertziana): “The other way round. Alessandro Galilei and his British Patrons.”

4.00-4.30: Afternoon: break

4.30     John Wilton-Ely (British School at Rome/Paul Mellon Fellow) ): “’My Holy See of Pleasurable Antiquity’: Robert Adam and his Associates in Rome”
4.55     Francis Russell (Christie’s, London):  “James Byres and Lord Bute: a postscript”
5.20     Letizia Tedeschi (Archivio del Moderno, Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana): “Vincenzo Brenna e i disegni dall'Antico per Charles Townley”
5.45   Discussion

Friday 17th February

9.30    Morning Session: Culture for Sale: At Home in Rome: British Patrons and Collectors and the Roman Art Market
Chair: Brian Allen (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

9.30     Karin Wolfe (British School at Rome) “Acquisitive Tourism: Francesco Trevisani's Roman Studio and British Visitors ”
9.55   Edgar Peters Bowron (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston): “From Homer to Faustina the Younger: Representations of  Antiquity in Batoni's Grand Tour Portraits.”
10.20   Peter Kerber: (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): “Lord Arundell, Pompeo Batoni and the Art of Catholic Recusancy”
10.45   Discussion

11.00-11.30: Morning break

11.30    Alastair Laing (National Trust, London): “Gian Paolo Panini’s English clients, and their use of his pictures”
11.55   David Marshall (University of Melbourne) “Panini and the Stuarts in Rome”
12.20   James Holloway (Scottish National Portrait Gallery) “John Urquhart of Crommarty: A little known collector of Roman paintings”
12.45   Discussion

1pm: Lunch break

2.30     Afternoon Session: Art and Erudition: Rome in the British imagination
Chair: Christopher Johns (Vanderbilt University)

2.30     Carol Richardson (The Open University): “Andrea Pozzo and the Venerable English College, Rome”
2.55     Wendy Wassyng Roworth (University of Rhode Island): “Between ‘Old Tiber’ and ‘Envious Thames’: The Angelica Kauffman Connection”
3.20     José María Luzón (University Complutense de Madrid)  “Travelling through Italy with books”
3.45   Discussion

4.00-4.30 Afternoon break

4.30     Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Royal Collections, London): "'The Modern who recommends himself' - Living Italian Painters and British Taste"
4.55     Kevin Salatino (Los Angeles County Museum of Art): “Fuseli's Phallus: Art and Erotic Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Rome”
5.20     Closing remarks: Christopher Johns: "Roma Britannica: Visual Culture and the Triumph of Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Rome", followed by round table discussion with Brian Allen, David Marshall and Karin Wolfe

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