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British History PodcastHenry VIII's Divorce and the 1527 Sack of Rome - Part 3In this, the final of 3 episodes, recorded live, we are discussing the factors going on in Rome which effected Henry VIII's ultimately failed attempt to secure a divorce from his first wife Katherine of Aragon. Last time we covered the sack of Rome in 1527 and, in episode 1, the build up to it. We learned how the breakdown in relations between Francois I of France, Charles V Holy Roman Emperor, Charles duke of Burgundy and Pope Clement VII led to this indescribably horrific humanitarian disaster.British History is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts...2025-03-311h 27
British History PodcastHenry VIII's Divorce and the 1527 Sack of Rome - Part 2In this, the second of 3 episodes, recorded live, discussing the factors going on in Rome which effected Henry VIII's ultimately failed attempt to secure a divorce from his first wife Katherine of Aragon, we look at the Sack of Rome itself. WARNING - this episode will include descriptions of act of violence, all which occurred in 1527, almost 500 year ago but still upsetting. In the previous episode we focussed on the events which led up to Imperial troops appearing at the walls of Rome, bent on violence. It is against this backdrop that Henry VIII petitioned the pope for a...2025-03-171h 13
British History PodcastHenry VIII's Divorce and the 1527 Sack of RomeIn this first of a series of 3 episodes, recorded live, discussing the factors going on in Rome which effected Henry VIII's ultimately failed attempt to secure a divorce from his first wife Katherine of Aragon, we focus on the events which led up to Imperial troops at the walls of Rome, bent on violence. As well as out main topic for today we also have the 3-minute explainer - why is Richard III so popular? and AI attempts to recreate historical moments.You can also watch this episode on the British History Youtube Channel...2025-03-031h 20
Pillow Talk PlatformINTERDISCIPLINARITY by the British School at Rome - Paul Eastwood & Hester Schadee. [EP2]Interdisciplinarity is a series of dialogues between fellows who have spent a period of residence at the British School at Rome. EPISODE 2 - Paul Eastwood & Hester Schadee-The BSR is one of the many foreign Academies present in Rome, which represent individuals who are emerging in the public sphere and inserting themselves in the city's extraordinary cultural heritage.Artists and academics live together for several months, establishing not only interpersonal relationships, but often also professional collaborations, thanks to a constant sharing of knowledge that embraces multiple disciplines. In many cases this...2021-04-2841 min
Pillow Talk PlatformINTERDISCIPLINARITY by the British School at Rome - Bea Bonafini & Eóin Parkinson [EP1]Interdisciplinarity is a series of dialogues between fellows who have spent a period of residence at the British School at Rome. EPISODE 1 - Bea Bonafini & Eóin Parkinson-The BSR is one of the many foreign Academies present in Rome, which represent individuals who are emerging in the public sphere and inserting themselves in the city's extraordinary cultural heritage.Artists and academics live together for several months, establishing not only interpersonal relationships, but often also professional collaborations, thanks to a constant sharing of knowledge that embraces multiple disciplines. In many cases t...2021-03-2341 min
The BSR PodcastConversation with Phoebe Boswell and Angelica PesariniContent Warning: This recording contains mentions of racial trauma, violence against Black and Brown people and racial slurs that can be disturbing or triggering.The second event of the BSR Fine Arts Talks | Talk Justice series will be a conversation between artist Phoebe Boswell (Bridget Riley Fellow 2019) and Dr Angelica Pesarini (NYU Florence). Pesarini, whose research is dedicated to the analysis of the intersections of race, gender and citizenship in colonial and postcolonial Italy responds to Phoebe's visual essay 'Stranger In The Village', which documents her experience of both an artist residency and a growing consciousness within an...2020-07-301h 14The BSR PodcastThe lost gateway of early modern Rome: the development of the port of Ripa Grande from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuryA lecture by Nikolaos Karydis (Kent; BSR). This lecture explores the development of the Ripa Grande, the main river port of Rome during the Early Modern period. This port was destroyed in the 19th century. The lecture, offers an opportunity to visualise its lost phases on the basis of vedutte drawn from the 15th to the 18th century. Comparative analysis of an unprecedented number of engravings, drawings and paintings and their interpretation by reference to coeval maps will help us to retrace the transformations of the port through time. Reconstructed plans and axonometric drawings make it possible to...2020-07-211h 08The BSR PodcastThe Stuarts in Rome: a royal court in the city of cardinalsKeynote by Edward Corp (Toulouse) for the conference Alla Corte della Cancelleria: Pietro Ottoboni e la politica delle arti nella Roma del Settecento2020-07-2152 minThe BSR PodcastIl Parco Archeologico di Ercolano: per un Passato al FuturoMolly Cotton Lecture by Francesco Sirano (Herculaneum)2020-07-211h 00The BSR PodcastWorking with historyA lecture by Spencer de Grey (Foster + Partners).2020-07-2157 minThe BSR PodcastLe origini dell’economia romanaA lecture by Gabriele Cifani (École normale supérieure, Paris). Part of the City of Rome Lecture Series. L’economia romana tra l’VIII e il IV secolo a.C. è generalmente ricostruita in termini marcatamente primitivisti, con un ruolo preponderante attribuito all’agricoltura e con ridotte attività di produzione e di scambi commerciali. Tale vulgata, tuttora presente in particolare nella manualistica anglosassone, mal si concilia con le scoperte archeologiche avvenute a Roma e nel Lazio negli ultimi quaranta anni che obbligano a riconsiderare il ruolo della città nell’ambito delle interazioni commerciali mediterranee. Oggetto della conferenza saranno pertanto le p...2020-07-211h 22The BSR PodcastPirro Ligorio and the Roman aqueductsA lecture by Ginette Vagenheim (Rouen-Normandie) as part of the City of Rome lecture series. After the catastrophic Tiber flood of 1557, control over the river and repairs to the aqueducts represented the major urban issues that needed to be resolved in the context of Rome’s renovation. Massive public works were commissioned, namely around Castel Sant’Angelo and for the reconstruction of the aqueduct named “Acqua Vergine”. These projects produced numerous discussions and writings by a series of individuals of varied backgrounds, like the physician Andrea Bacco (1524-1600), the engineer Antonio Trevisi (d.1564), the jurist and Roman magistrate Luca Pet...2020-07-2152 minThe BSR PodcastAncient ports and seafaring traditions of the Egyptian Red Sea coast in the GrecoRoman periodA lecture by Ania Kotarba-Morley. The Red Sea region is hostile to long-shore nautical activity as it lacks natural topographic features that could be used as harbours; only a few suitable bays for landing, where the wadi mouths allow the break in the reef, are located on its coasts. However, experiencing seasonally variable winds and currents parts of the Red Sea constituted favourable ground for maritime voyaging, contact and trade for millennia. Berenike Troglodytica was one of the most important harbours on the Egyptian Red Sea during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods – a major hub connecting trade between th...2020-07-2151 minThe BSR PodcastHistory and theory: the Romans debate their ForumA lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Oxford). Partof the City of Rome Lecture Series2020-07-211h 05The BSR PodcastNobili, militari e vescovi. Il Laterano in età imperialeA lecture by Paolo Liverani (Firenze). Part of the City of Rome lecture series. Il progetto di ricerca sul Laterano antico fino alle soglie del medioevo vede insieme le università di Newcastle e Firenze con il determinante sostegno della British School di Roma, dei Musei Vaticani e la collaborazione dell’Istituto per le Tecnologie Applicate ai Beni Culturali del CNR italiano. I rilievi dell’area lateranense strettamente intesa sono terminati e sono molto avanzati gli studi per la ricostruzione delle varie fasi edilizie, storiche e urbanistiche. Qui alle domus di I e II secolo d.C. si sovrappone prima...2020-07-211h 07The BSR PodcastDomus Tiberiana: urbanism, building processes and construction techniques on the Palatine’s northern slopeA lecture by Stefano Camporeale (Siena) part of the City of Rome Lecture Series. With the co-ordination of the Soprintendenza of Rome, a research team carried out in 2013-17 an archaeological study and restoration programme of the northern substructures of the Domus Tiberiana. Through stratigraphic, technical and structural analyses of this complex, new data has emerged on the function and different phases of the various rooms and buildings, on the construction processes, and on the urban organization of the Palatine’s northern slope. Dal 2013 al 2017 un gruppo di lavoro coordinato dalla Soprintendenza di Roma si è occupato del...2020-07-2141 minThe BSR PodcastIl Museo Capitolino: l’affermazione di un nuovo modello di museo nell’Europa del SettecentoA lecture by Eloisa Dodero (Musei Capitolini) as part of the City of Rome lecture series. L’istituzione del Museo Capitolino con i due chirografi di papa Clemente XII del dicembre 1733 rappresenta un episodio di grande importanza nel panorama culturale dell’Europa del Settecento. Prototipo del museo moderno, per la razionalizzazione degli spazi espositivi, l’apertura al pubblico dei giovani artisti, la creazione di nuove figure professionali e la pubblicazione di cataloghi illustrati e guide per i visitatori, negli anni centrali del Settecento il Museo Capitolino costituisce una tappa immancabile nella Roma del Grand Tour e come assoluta novità...2020-07-211h 02The BSR PodcastAtterraggi poetici e pericolosiTomaso Binga in conversation with Raffaella Perna (Sapienza) followed by a performance. Part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender Series2020-07-2152 minThe BSR PodcastBeyond queer minimalismA talk by John Walter as part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender Series2020-07-211h 08The BSR PodcastVisions of ruin: Volney’s ‘Les Ruines’ and Mary Shelley’s RomeBSR-Institute of Classical Studies Rome-London Lecture by Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck). Volney’s hugely influential work Les Ruines (1791) had a profound effect on responses to ruins, not just those of exotic Palmyra (with which Volney’s treatise opens) but also the more familiar ruins of Rome. Les Ruines plays a small but crucial role in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Her later writing, especially works composed in or about Rome (her fragmentary story ‘Valerius: the reanimated Roman’ and her novel The last man), deploys the remains of ancient Rome to explore complex temporalities, alert to the politics of ruins and inflected...2020-07-2049 minThe BSR PodcastSecond World War military intelligence: aerial photography in the Mediterranean TheatreRound table with Alan Williams (National Collection of Aerial Photography), Elizabeth J. Shepherd (Aerofototeca Nazionale-ICCD) and Alessandra Giovenco (BSR).2020-07-201h 33The BSR PodcastFranciscan political thought in Baroque RomeA lecture by Ian Campbell (QUB)2020-07-2049 minThe BSR PodcastTranslation, travel and treason: William Barker in Early Modern ItalySociety for Renaissance Studies Lecture by Jane Grogan (UCD). This paper introduces a long-forgotten Tudor figure, William Barker, and argues for his significance to our understanding of post-Reformation English Renaissance culture. Sometime Cambridge scholar, traveller to Italy, and accomplished translator from ancient Greek, Barker became a key figure in the ill-fated Ridolfi plot (which sought to put Mary Queen of Scots on Elizabeth’s English throne). But quite apart from the interest of his own story, his life and works cast light on unnoticed intellectual networks operating in Renaissance England, and point to the need to rethink our un...2020-07-2041 minThe BSR PodcastNeither perfect nor ideal: Palladio’s Villa RotondaA lecture by Andrew Hopkins (Università degli Studi Dell’Aquila)2020-07-201h 08The BSR PodcastThe natural world: pagans and Christians - animal and vegetableA lecture by Robin Lane Fox (Oxford), co-organised with the American Academy in Rome as part of the 2018 Jerome Lecture Series. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. They are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. In 2018, the forty-fifth year of the lecture series, Robin Lane Fox, a noted scholar of ancient history, will discuss the natural world in pagan and Christian Rome. The lectures will explore the differing approaches to the natural...2020-07-201h 11The BSR PodcastJustice as everyday life: urban conflict and civic spaceW.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Wendy Pullan (Cambridge). Can we speak of spaces of justice? If so, how and where might this happen in contemporary cities? The abstract nature of legal systems makes it difficult to apply them to everyday life in cities, resulting in disjunctures between urban spatial practice and justice. This becomes more complicated when political situations begin to unravel in conditions of heavy conflict. Nonetheless, cities are often more robust that we initially expect and the order and processes of everyday life often contribute and sustain when more formal procedures become...2020-07-2057 minThe BSR PodcastLearning to imagine: the Brontës and nineteenth-century ideals of educationA lecture by Dinah Birch (Liverpool)2020-07-2058 minThe BSR PodcastTheodotus and his chapel in the church of Santa Maria AntiquaA lecture by John Osborne (BSR; Carleton) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.2020-07-201h 00The BSR PodcastReviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: from incineration to inhumationA lecture by Barbara Borg (Exeter) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.2020-07-2055 minThe BSR PodcastLa prevenzione dagli incendi nella Roma repubblicana e imperialeA lecture by Filippo Coarelli (Perugia) as part of the City of Rome lecture series2020-07-201h 05The BSR PodcastThe topography of peace and diplomacy in Ancient RomeA lecture by Hannah Cornwell (Birmingham) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.2020-07-201h 02The BSR PodcastEarly Rome: myth, history and the environmentA lecture by Krešimir Vuković (BSR; Oxford) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.2020-07-201h 07The BSR PodcastWhy Roman dress mattersA lecture by Ursula Rothe (BSR; Open)2020-07-2049 minThe BSR PodcastThe postcard Grand Tour of Rome: creating an urban pattern out of monumentsA lecture by Renée Tobe (BSR; East London). British filmmaker Peter Greenaway came to Rome on a visit, suffered from indigestion and devised his plot for Belly of an Architect (1987) in which an American (in the style of Henry James) visits Rome in order to prepare an exhibition of the works of neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799) in the Monument Vittorio Emanuele II. Rome in film manifests itself according to the specific filmmaker’s perspective and there are different kinds of Roman films. While Italian neorealist films strove to cultivate the opposite of the monumentality of Rome...2020-07-2057 minThe BSR PodcastPalazzi rinascimentali nelle Marche: nuove ipotesi su Palazzo Ferretti ad Ancona e Palazzo Gallo ad OsimoA lecture by Maurizio Ricci (Sapienza) and Tom True (BSR)2020-07-201h 15The BSR PodcastFascist fountains: sculptural narratives of reclamationA lecture by Lara Pucci (BSR; Nottingham).2020-07-141h 13The BSR PodcastWhat did Rome’s emperors do for Ostia, its economy and its enterprises?G.E. Rickman Lecture by Christer Bruun (Toronto). An Ostian inscription from the reign of the emperor Hadrian honors the emperor because the colonia had been conservata et aucta. This lecture explores ways in which the emperors’ concern with the economy of the empire and the provisioning of Rome impacted on the town of Ostia and its inhabitants. It is normally taken for granted that the expansion of the harbour zone took place in general harmony: imperial investments flowed to Ostia-Portus, the town and its population grew steadily, and its business and trading community flourished. But were there no...2020-07-1454 minThe BSR PodcastAn endangered species: the polymath in an age of specialisationA lecture by Peter Burke (Cambridge). A cultural history of polymaths from the Renaissance to the present (from Leonardo to Umberto Eco), investigating how the species has managed to survive despite increasing specialization2020-07-141h 00The BSR PodcastAn English collector in Italy: the Wilshere Collection of late Roman gold-glassBSR-Corning Museum of Glass David Whitehouse Memorial Lecture by Susan Walker (Oxford). Archival research in Rome and Naples has shed light upon the formation of the third largest surviving collection of late Roman gold-glass. Charles Wilshere (1814-1906), a landowner with a passion for early Christianity, built his remarkable collection through a network of Italian scholars and dealers, notably the great Vatican archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi, the Jesuit scholar Raffaele Garrucci, and the painter and dealer Vincenzo Capobianchi. In Italy, Wilshere took advantage of the political and social instability of the risorgimento years, and his collecting activities proved...2020-07-141h 12The BSR PodcastThe papacy in the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion 1500-1700A lecture by Simon Ditchfield (York)2020-07-141h 16The BSR PodcastThe unessayable essay: a life of Titus LiviusA lecture by Ronald Ridley (Melbourne)2020-07-141h 03The BSR PodcastWalking Conversionary RomeA lecture by Emily Michelson (St Andrews). The 16th-century conversionary campaign against Jews took place largely in public, in the presence of many kinds of onlookers. Nowhere was conversion a greater spectacle than at forced sermons. This talk traces the journeys of the three main populations who converged at conversionary sermons in the early 1580s: Jews, Neophytes, and Christians. It blends an examination of urban renewal with religious questions to recreate the moment when public interest fixed on this new spectacle.2020-07-141h 03The BSR PodcastRicerche di archeologia cristiana in Sabina ed Etruria Meridionale: le chiese di S. Giacinto e dei SS. Gratiliano e FelicissimaMolly Cotton Lecture by Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai (Tor Vergata). Ricerche di archeologia cristiana in Sabina ed Etruria Meridionale: le chiese di S. Giacinto (Cures Sabini) e dei SS. Gratiliano e Felicissima (Falerii Novi)2020-07-141h 16The BSR PodcastEduardo Paolozzi: transnational belongingsA lecture by Derek Duncan (St Andrews)2020-07-141h 04The BSR PodcastArchitecture and trauma: silver and salvation in baroque NaplesW.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Helen Hills (York). Baroque Naples was tarnished in Protestant Europe with a reputation for excess — most especially an excess of silver in its churches and chapels, part of the mort main of the Spanish church, a prodigious resource that was gathering dust rather than fighting wars or generating interest. Silver was the material par excellence for chalices, pyx and plate, for carte di gloria and sacred and liturgical objects of many kinds, including the spectacular solid silver reliquaries in the Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro in Naples, unsurpassed amongst European tr...2020-07-1453 minThe BSR PodcastDisemboweled vision: Fascism, Rome and cinemaA lecture by John David Rhodes (BSR; Cambridge). Many of the spaces and thoroughfares that we take for granted in the centre of Rome are the results of brutal practices that reshaped the city only several decades ago. While every power that has ruled Rome sought–with varying degrees of intensity and success–to fashion the city in its own image, Fascism’s sventramento (disembowelling) of several of Rome’s neighbourhoods left a spatial and visual legacy that is troubling and difficult to pin down. This talk will range across documentary filmmaking, photography, painting, official planning discourses, and other materials in order...2020-07-1354 minThe BSR PodcastGender and power in the reception of Andreas Vesalius’s ‘Fabrica’: results from the censusA lecture by Mark Somos (BSR; Sussex; Harvard)2020-07-1347 minThe BSR PodcastThe tithe of Hercules: Roman merchants, finance and the communityG.E. Rickman Lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Oxford). In this lecture, Nicholas Purcell revisits the social, financial, and cultural environments of merchants engaged in overseas trade with the city of Rome. He looks at the changing role of those we readily classify as ‘merchants’ or ‘traders’ in new ways, asking whether our standard scholarly representations of ‘exchange’, ‘commerce’, or ‘trade’ all too conventional.2020-07-131h 08The BSR PodcastRewriting the Renaissance: the Medici on page and screenA lecture by Catherine Fletcher (Swansea). Rai Uno’s new show I Medici – known in English as Medici: Masters of Florence – has proved an extraordinary success on Italian television. In this talk, Catherine Fletcher explores its depiction of the Medici family and the debate it has prompted about the relationship between historical fact and fiction. She draws on her own experience of writing a biography of Alessandro de’ Medici (Il principe maledetto di Firenze/The Black Prince of Florence) to consider the challenges of presenting this complex past to contemporary audiences, and looks at the ways that social media interaction can chan...2020-07-131h 07The BSR PodcastThe imperial senate and the city of RomeA lecture by Amy Russell (BSR; Durham)2020-07-131h 17The BSR PodcastThe skill of the glassblower: its Roman-world ascent and Renaissance Venice zenithBSR-Corning Museum of Glass David Whitehouse Memorial lecture by William Gudenrath (Corning Museum of Glass)2020-07-131h 07The BSR PodcastHorticulture, elite self-representation and botanical imperialism in Ancient RomeA lecture by Annalisa Marzano (BSR; Reading)2020-07-131h 11The BSR PodcastEtruscans in the Apennines: recent discoveries at Poggio CollaA lecture by Phil Perkins (BSR; Open)2020-07-1357 minThe BSR PodcastCy Twombly’s Mediterranean PassagesA lecture by Mary Jacobus. To launch her book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus explores the use of quotations in one of his major paintings. The American painter Cy Twombly (1928–2011), who lived in Rome from the 1950s onward, often spoke of himself as a ‘Mediterranean’ painter. His vast tripartite canvas, Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor, spans two decades and was finally completed to coincide with his 1994 MoMA retrospective. Previously known as Unfinished Painting, it exemplifies Twombly’s use of quotation. Say Goodbye includes a palimpsest of passages drawn fr...2020-07-131h 14The BSR PodcastThe Social Value of Beauty - the economics of beauty and British case historiesA discussion with UK and Italian think tanks ResPublica and Trinità dei Monti. Welcome and introduction by Christopher Smith (BSR), Pierluigi Testa (Trinità dei Monti), Jill Morris CMG and Daniele Frongia, Deputy Mayor of Rome. ‘The economics of beauty’ presented by Annalisa Cicerchia (Fondazione Symbola). ‘The community’s right to beauty’ by Duncan Sim (ResPublica Foundation) ‘The regeneration of Dundee’ by Philip Long (V&A Museum of Design Dundee)2020-07-132h 03The BSR PodcastArredi di lusso da Ercolano: i più recenti rinvenimenti dalla città e dalla Villa dei PapiriMolly Cotton Lecture given by Maria Paola Guidobaldi2020-07-131h 11The BSR PodcastThe fate of the column of Antoninus PiusA lecture by Ronald Ridley (Melbourne). The column of Antoninus was never completely buried, but was rather hidden (in the garden of the Fathers of the Mission, beside Montecitorio) until Clement XI in 1703 employed three Fontanas to clear, raise, lower and move it. Contemporaneous triumphalist accounts of the operation are belied by the facts and the current remains: only the pedestal in the Vatican Museum. Things went very wrong, to be followed by centuries of neglect.2020-07-1358 minThe BSR PodcastEmptyscapes: Filling ‘empty’ Mediterranean Landscapes, Mapping the Archaeological continuum: Rusealle case studyPresentation by Stefano Campana (Università di Siena) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla terra: progetti di prospezione geofisica in Italia centrale tirrenica2020-07-1328 minThe BSR PodcastA multi-method geophysical survey of the archaic sanctuary and Roman colony of Lucus FeroniaePresentation by Stephen Kay, Matthew Berry, Sophie Hay, Simon Keay, Eleanor Maw and Christopher Smith (BSR) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla terra: progetti di prospezione geofisica in Italia centrale tirrenica2020-07-1316 minThe BSR PodcastProgetto CerveteriPresentation by Salvatore Piro (ITABC - CNR) and Vincenzo Bellelli (ISMA CNR) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla terra: progetti di prospezione geofisica in Italia centrale tirrenica.2020-07-1320 minThe BSR PodcastTarquiniaPresentation by Matilde Marzullo and Andrea Garzulino (Università di Milano) at the workshop, Tracce della terra: progetti di prospezione geofisica in Italia centrale tirrenica2020-07-1315 minThe BSR PodcastProgetto Vulci: ricognizione geofisica dei porti della cittàA presentation by Corinna Riva and Kris Lockyear (University College London) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla Terra: progetti di prospezione geofisica in Italia centrale tirrenica2020-07-1320 minThe BSR PodcastFrom east to west and beyondKeynote lecture by Alessandro Naso (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) for the international workshop and symposium, Material Connections and Artistic Exchange - the case of Etruria and Anatolia2020-07-131h 04The BSR PodcastL’aula monumentale di ‘Minerva Medica’: le fasi e il contesto alla luce degli ultimi scaviA lecture by Mariarosaria Barbera, Marina Magnani Cianetti, Salvo Barrano (MiBACT/SSCol) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series2020-07-131h 18The BSR PodcastRoma in età moderna: un mosaico di ‘nationes’Keynote lecture by Irene Fosi (Università degli Studi ‘G. d’Annunzio’, Chieti-Pescara) for the conference, Becoming Roman: Artistic Immigration in the Urbe from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.2020-07-1341 minThe BSR PodcastPious generals? Military investment in churches at Rome in the fifth century ADA lecture by Meaghan McEvoy (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series2020-07-1354 minThe BSR PodcastMater Matuta and the votive phenomenon: guaranteeing fertility in Italic and Roman ItalyA lecture by Maureen Carroll (BSR; Sheffield) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series2020-07-131h 18The BSR PodcastLooking like Caesar: a case-study of personal likeness and group assimilation in Roman portraitureA lecture by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge). Part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.2020-07-061h 01The BSR PodcastRome and England in the Gothic Age: thoughts on the Heroic modeW.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Paul Binski (Cambridge)2020-07-061h 12The BSR PodcastThe Roman plays and the material culture in Shakespeare’s LondonLecture by Roy Stephenson (Museum of London),Part of the conference ‘Shakespeare and the memory of Rome’2020-07-0643 minThe BSR PodcastBook Launch | Rome 1600: the City and the Visual Arts under Clement VIIIBook launch by Clare Robertson (Reading)2020-07-0644 minThe BSR PodcastThe naturalness of ancient urbanismBSR-Institute of Classical Studies Rome-London Lecture by Greg Woolf (Institute of Classical Studies)2020-07-061h 34The BSR PodcastPurging the peninsula: Jesuits, inquisitors and the secret absolution of heretics in post-Reformation ItalyA lecture by Jessica Dalton (BSR; St Andrews)2020-07-0649 minThe BSR PodcastDancing backwards through time: subverting Baroque and Roman architectureA lecture by Liz Rideal (UCL, The Slade School of Fine Art). This lecture focuses on artwork made in Rome and elsewhere, touching on ideas about approaches to different architectural structures and ways of revealing their secrets through exposure to performance and projected film.2020-07-0652 minThe BSR PodcastArtist’s talk by Andrew Stahl: ‘Observe what’s vivid’A talk by visual artist Andrew Stahl (Slade School of Fine Art). Sponsored by the Abbey Council.2020-07-061h 20The BSR PodcastRoyal flush: Domitian’s high colour and its significanceA lecture by Llewelyn Morgan (Oxford)2020-07-061h 12The BSR PodcastThomas Ashby, G.M. Trevelyan and the British Red Cross: humanities activists in Italy’s Great WarA lecture by Marcella Sutcliffe ( Cambridge)2020-07-0655 minThe BSR PodcastItaly, Islam and the Islamic world: representations and reflections from 9/11 to the Arab uprisingsA lecture by Charles Burdett (Bristol)2020-07-061h 33The BSR PodcastPainting blindness in Enlightenment BritainA lecture by Georgina Cole (National Art School, Sydney). This lecture is focused on portraits of the blind in addition to Romney’s historical portrait of Milton, with a reflection on Romney’s stay in Rome.2020-07-061h 02The BSR PodcastWhores and the House of CaesarFollowing the highly anticipated publication of Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Little, Brown 2015), Tom Holland, author of the acclaimed bestseller Rubicon, gives this talk following his UK tour in autumn 2015.2020-06-301h 15The BSR Podcast‘Italia illustrata’The interaction of topographical descriptions and cartography in the works of Flavio Biondo and Leandro Alberti. Lecture by Tanja Michalsky (Bibliotheca Hertziana)2020-06-301h 11The BSR PodcastHenry Moore: Sculpting ModernityA lecture by Chris Stephens (Tate). The finissage of the Henry Moore exhibition (24 September 2015–10 January 2016, Baths of Diocletian), curated by Chris Stephens and Davide Colombo. Chris Stephens considers what it was that made Henry Moore the quintessential sculptor of the modern age.2020-06-301h 07The BSR PodcastThe Archaeology of the Lateran Basilica: a view from belowA lecture by Ian Haynes (Newcastle). Part of Concilium Lateranense IV. Commemorating the Octocentenary of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Session 4, Plenary Lecture 32020-06-301h 01The BSR PodcastItalian books in Eighteenth-Century Britain: readers, collectors, publishersKeynote lecture by Carlo Caruso (Durham; BSR) for the Colloquium Diplomatici e letterati nel XVIII secolo2020-06-3044 minThe BSR PodcastAn American artist on the Grand Tour: Benjamin West in Italy 1760-63A lecture by Loyd Grossman2020-06-3052 minThe BSR PodcastElite art in the age of populismA lecture by Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld)2020-06-301h 18The BSR PodcastRoman noses: smell and the senses in Ancient RomeA lecture by Mark Bradley (Nottingham)2020-06-301h 07The BSR PodcastG.E. Street in Rome. A Victorian architect and his churchesA lecture by Alex Bremner (Edinburgh / BSR Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow). This lecture examines the two Roman churches of the great English architect of the Victorian period, George Edmund Street (1824-81): St Paul’s Within-the-Walls (1872-6), Via Nazionale; and All Saints’ (1880-7), Via del Babuino. Then, as now, Street was known for his sensitivity and intelligence as an architect, particularly in the domain of ecclesiastical design, which led to him receiving the two Roman commissions. He also had an unrivalled reputation as being among Victorian Britain’s most knowledgeable architects on Italian medieval design, having travelled to Italy...2020-06-301h 23The BSR PodcastCupid punished: reflections on a Roman genre sceneA lecture by Michele George (BSR Hugh Last Fellow / McMaster University). This lecture was part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.2020-06-301h 08The BSR PodcastEarly Roman blown glass - a half century of innovationBSR – Corning Museum David Whitehouse Memorial Lecture by Karol Wight (Corning Museum of Glass)2020-06-231h 11The BSR PodcastRe-reading Trajan's Forum after the new excavationsLecture by Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway, University of London). This lecture was part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.2020-06-231h 28The BSR PodcastW.T.C. Walker Lecture | The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: the impact of politics, economics and social change on architectureLecture by Robert Adam (ADAM Architecture). The globalisation of modern architecture: The impact of politics, economics and social change on architecture and urban design since 19902020-06-231h 30The BSR PodcastAcademy / Studio / MuseumNicholas Cullinan, BSR Rome Scholar 2004-05, and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about his time at the BSR, and how that fed into his curation of the Matisse Cut-Outs exhibition at Tate Modern (17 April-7 September 2014) which focusses on the idea of the artist’s studio.2020-06-2349 minThe BSR Podcast‘Hatred’ or ‘praise’ of the English name? Catholics representing England in Italy, c. 1558-1660Lecture by Lucy Underwood (BSR Rome Fellow)2020-06-231h 08The BSR PodcastItaly and Renaissance globalisation - The circulation of goods, skills and technologyLecture by Luca Molà (European University Institute)2020-06-231h 26The BSR PodcastSociety of Renaissance Studies Lecture | Space and time: another look at Jacopo de’ Barbari’s view of Venice c. 1500Lecture by Gabriele Neher (Nottingham)2020-06-231h 16The BSR PodcastThe Cardinals' music visual evidence of the musical interests of the Curia c.1200 – 1350Lecture by Julian Gardner (Warwick).2020-06-231h 08The BSR PodcastG.E. Rickman Lecture | Thalassocracy: Sea Power in the Mediterranean and beyondLecture by Prof. David Abulafia (Cambridge). How is power over the open sea exercised? What do we mean when we talk of ‘maritime empires’ in the Mediterranean and beyond? This lecture will look at examples from the ancient, medieval and modern Mediterranean, and from other seas a swell, in the hope of discovering how control of the sea has been exercised in the past.2020-06-231h 14The BSR PodcastSepolcro degli Scipioni: il monumento, la storia, il contestoLecture in Italian by Rita Volpe (Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali di Roma Capitale). Fin dalla sua riscoperta nel 1780 il Sepolcro degli Scipioni ha creato un enorme curiosità intorno a sé, dovuta soprattutto alla fama e alla rilevanza che molti componenti di questa famiglia hanno avuto nella storia di Roma repubblicana. La recente esecuzione di lavori di restauro, consolidamento e allestimento, finalizzati alla riapertura al pubblico dell’area archeologica, ha fornito l’occasione per intraprendere una nuova stagione di studi, andando oltre le conoscenze tradizionali, che fino ad oggi si sono perlopiù concentrate quasi esclusivamente sull’interpretazione storica delle iscrizion...2020-06-231h 24The BSR PodcastAurelian’s wall and the infrastructure of Rome in late antiquityLecture by Hendrik Dey (Hunter College CUNY).2020-06-231h 22