Guidebooks, prints, maps, photographs, and social media have all been used to convey the history and physical heritage of Rome to travellers, actual and prospective. Artists and authors’ representations and descriptions of the city’s ancient remains are necessarily selective, emphasising and omitting particular features, for political, ideological, aesthetic, historical, and commercial reasons. This half-day workshop examines changing approaches through which ancient Rome has been presented to visitors, from antiquity to the present day. Looking for both variances and commonalities, the papers investigate the how the city’s monuments and ruins were portrayed in different eras, for different audiences, through different media.

Speakers include: Annunziata Berrino (Federico II), Abigail Brundin (BSR), Raphaële Moruen (BSR), Clare Hornsby (BSR), and Christopher Siwicki (BSR)

This lecture is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course directed by Dr. Christopher Siwicki, designed for postgraduates from selected British partner universities. The programme is aimed at students at the Master’s or early Doctoral level studying classical archaeology, art history, ancient history, and the transformation of antiquity in the Middle Ages and modern period.

See the full programme of City of Rome here.

The event is in person—no registration is needed, and access is free