Visual Culture of the Classical World at Durham: a research conversation day - 23/06/2017, Durham (E

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 23/06/2017

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Kenworthy Hall, St. Mary’s College, Durham University (Durham, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr Catherine M. Draycott

INFO: catherine.draycott@durham.ac.uk

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / gratuito / free

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

9-9:30 – arrival refreshments

9:30 – Welcome

9:45 – Catherine Draycott (Archaeology): Art and landscapes of empire in Achaemenid Anatolia

10:10 – Eris Williams Reed (Classics and Ancient History): The environment as visual culture: examples from the Roman Near East

10:35 – Peter Heslin (Classics and Ancient History) – Public and private art in the Roman World

11 -11:25 – coffee

11:25 – Anna Leone (Archaeology): Statues and urban decorum in late antique North Africa

11:50 – Rebecca Usherwood (Classics and Ancient History): Scratching the surface

12:15 – Dame Rosemary Cramp (Archaeology): A late Roman or Medieval relief?

12:40 – Edmund Thomas (Classics and Ancient History) – Rethinking the “Baroque”, ancient and modern

1:10-2:10 – Lunch

2:10 – Carlo Caruso (MLAC) – Archaeological findings and celebratory poetry in the Rome of Pius VI (1775-1799)

2:35 – Marc Schachter (MLAC) – The illustrated Ass: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses from manuscript to print

3 – Stefano Cracolici (MLAC) – Aeneid 1819: a landscape avant-garde

3 – 3:30 – coffee

3:30 – Tom Stammers (History) – Augustus and Cinna in the Bowes Museum: painting, politics and theatre at the fall of Napoleon

3:55 – Seren Nolan (Classics and Ancient History) – The Roman matrona in eighteenth-century visual culture

4:20 – Richard Hingley (Archaeology): Building Roman Britain; urbanism, militarism, industry and barbarity in Victorian imagery

4:45 - ca 5:10 – final discussion.