![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".ĬookieYes sets this cookie to record the default button state of the corresponding category and the status of CCPA. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague Harriet O’Neill She is Assistant Professor in Classics (Roman History) in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a Research Fellow at BSR. A monograph on the collecting of Latin inscriptions in the eighteenth-century is forthcoming, and her current research project is on the history of epigraphic forgery. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a member of the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma and of the Scientific Committee of the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giovanni Battista Piranesi.Ĭaroline Barron is an ancient historian who works on the cultural and historical significance of Latin epigraphy, from antiquity to the present day. ![]() ![]() She has published on the Grand Tour, the antiquities market between Rome and London and on eighteenth-century architecture. His magnificent printed books, focussing on the artistic and architectural achievements of the ancient Romans and views of the contemporary city, were widely collected by private libraries during his lifetime and now are conserved in public and university collections globally.Ĭlare Hornsby is an art and architectural historian and a Research Fellow at BSR. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice 1720-Rome 1778) was a prodigious and multi-talented scholar and artist who was an antiquarian and archaeologist, an architect, draughtsman, print-maker as well as being an entrepreneur in publishing, sculpture restoration and in the art market he was a leading figure in the arts and scholarship in Grand Tour Rome, famous throughout Europe. The display will include some guide books and maps by other authors that explore the same itinerary from viewpoints different to that of Piranesi, such as that of Giuseppe Vasi. ![]() On 12, 13 and 14 June the British School at Rome is excited to present the exhibition “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the Research Collections of the BSR”.Īs part of an ongoing project, launched in 2021, to create a catalogue of the etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the BSR collection, this event, the third in the series of four annual exhibitions, will display this year’s selection of prints, focussing on the “Vedute di Roma” series and arranged to trace a visitor’s itinerary through the 18th century city. ![]()
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