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Arts
Architecture
Ersela Kripa & Stephen Mueller
Founders Rome Prize
Partners, AGENCY architecture llc, New York, NY
Hackable Infrastructures: Inhabiting the Margins of Contemporary Rome
We will study the forced movement of the Romani in Rome, establishing an understanding of the contemporary city as a network of superimposed degrees of mobility, finding sites of convergence where the Romani and the Roman might benefit from co-habitation, and to propose infrastructural and architectural frameworks to enable the preservation and co-habitation of Roma and Roman culture.
Drawing on a rich history of Roman infrastructural and civic typologies that have been re-purposed over the course of the city's legacy, and engaging the current objectives of the rapidly developing metropolis, we will investigate appropriate forms for such an intervention. Developing and testing our speculations of a "hackable" infrastructure for the contemporary city, we will benefit from direct contact with Roma and Sinti culture, its advocates, and the designers and planners of modern Rome to develop site-specific infrastructural interventions that address the intensifying Roma housing and sociological crisis.
Joshua G. Stein
Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Rome Prize
Principal, Radical Craft, Los Angeles
Associate Professor, Interior Architecture, Woodbury University
Cast Gallery: Inhabiting Ornament
The Cast Gallery is an invention of the late 19th Century which continues the tradition of reproducing classical antiquities for use as contemporary reference. I will assemble a Cast Gallery of ornament through the use of archeological documentation techniques invented to record antiquities. However, rather than recording idealized form from singular points in history, these casts will index the multiple layers of human habitation registered in their source objects and patterns.
Through research into historical and emerging documentation techniques, I will assemble a material study of ornament and its active participation in the contemporary city. This proposal seeks to investigate the friction area between pure geometric formalism and the 'dirty' formlessness of human habitation. The resulting Cast Gallery will include the production of a series of archaeological/architectural objects which will project new possibilities for habitation.
Design
Thomas J. Campanella
Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize
Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
From Rome to Robert Moses: Recovering the Legacy of Michael Rapuano
I will conduct field research to excavate the Italian sources of Michael Rapuano's unique aesthetic of park and parkway design. A Fellow and later a trustee and President of the American Academy of Rome, Rapuano was one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century. Using primary-source archival material, including recently discovered family letters, drawings, and sketchbooks, I intend to retrace Rapuano's footsteps in Italy to better understand the designer's formative early years and, especially, to probe the origins of his signature "public-works baroque" design style that became a template for park planning in New York City for 50 years. The research is essential to understanding Rapuano's signal contributions to American design history, and will contribute to a major book on Rapuano and his collaborator of 42 years, Gilmore Clarke. The book, Designing the American Century, will be published by Yale University Press.
Jeremy Mende
Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize
Principal, MendeDesign, San Francisco, CA
Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts
Anxious Futurism - A Visual Poetics of Our Schizophrenic Lean Into Tomorrow
I will research the communicative techniques of classical Futurism in order to create a new visual language that will express our frenetic, ambivalent lean into our future. This body of work will engage the Futurists techniques of simultaneità, onomatopoeia, and synesthetic form, but will replace the original character of Futurism with that of our time. The final result will be a series of graphic prints and an animated film that 'enact' our contemporary atmosphere of anxiety toward connectivity, intimacy, speed, and power.
Adrian Van Allen
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
Multimedia Specialist/Exhibit Developer, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Mapping Science: Rome
Naturalis Historia Romana: An Interactive Map will utilize Google maps, GPS data tagging and embedded Flash modules to tell a series of interlocking narratives about the evolution of the natural sciences in Rome. Portable to a website or a handheld device, visitors will explore interactive maps laced with podcasts, articles, animations and videos allowing them to mine the history of specific locations throughout the city and its environs. The Naturalis Historia Romana will be a multi-layered interactive map that lets visitors explore the evolution of the natural sciences in the city of Rome from Pliny the Elder to current biotechnology.
Historic Preservation and Conservation
John Matteo
National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
Associate, Robert Silman Associates, Washington, D.C.
Written in Stone: Reading Strength in Architecture from Ancient to Modern
The image of Rome's Pantheon resonates and re-emerges throughout architectural history. In achieving this visual lineage, a parallel history of structural design and construction can be traced. Building from within this context, the infusion of contemporary technologies and methods creates both opportunity and risk in advancing the dialogue with architecture's past. The Pantheon as paradigm offers a framework of study that advocates for two over-arching goals: first, for the expanded study of engineering history in the training and education of design professionals; and second, for an emphasis on communication and shared literacies in an integrated design process. The Pantheon holds a revolutionary position in the history of concrete design and construction. Looking at selected works of Pier Luigi Nervi and others, the project updates the current structural understanding of this primary source, and focuses on the evolving design processes specific to architecturally exposed concrete.
Mark Rabinowitz
Mark Hampton Rome Prize
Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation
Vice President, Conservation Solutions, Inc, Washington, D.C.
The study of Italian marble quarrying and carving techniques from the turn of the 20th century used in the creation of American monuments.
While in Rome I will explore the use of new stone-working technologies at the turn of the 20th century by Italian marble quarries and carvers and their possible association with specific deterioration of American public monuments carved in Italy or from Italian stone during that period. Through research into historic documentation, contemporary Italian monuments and sculptures with similar conditions, and collaboration with Italian conservators on current practice in treatment, I hope to better understand the causes of this frequently seen condition and advance its treatment.
Laurie W. Rush
Booth Family Rome Prize
Cultural Resources Manager, United States Army, Department of Defense, Fort Drum, NY
Cultural Property Protection; International Military Education and Building Partnerships
My project is to develop and establish a curriculum for Cultural Property Protection in the Event of Armed Conflict at the Rome based NATO Defense College. The project would build on US Defense and international initiatives for teaching military personnel about considerations for cultural property. The proposed curriculum would include a series of modules covering multiple aspects of the complex relationship between military operations and cultural property stewardship, like legal drivers, mission considerations, sources of information, and informed responses. The Rome Prize enables partnership with the Italian Carabinieri and the NGO WATCH, as well as offer valuable on-site research and teaching opportunities. The project will contribute toward international progress for meaningful stewardship of cultural property in areas of conflict and disaster.
Landscape Architecture
Casey Lance Brown
Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
Principal Researcher, P-REX
Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Villas: Landscapes of Speculation
The rise and crash of the Roman villa system reads eerily like the modern story of American foreclosures-profit schemes of land speculation, securitized, and excessively mortgaged. Where did this process of suburbanizing the rural hinterlands begin? I propose to interrogate the rise of the villa, the first suburban experiment, to inform our understanding of modern landscapes of speculation.
Poorly defined in common lore, Roman-era villas actually consumed large swaths of landscape, far more expansive than their well-studied architecture. As sprawling, army-supplying agricultural complexes, they colonized the empire from Palestine to Britain. By probing their origin in and near Rome, along with parallels to the current crisis, I hope to reveal some of modern civilization's latent tendencies to speculate on landscape futures. Perhaps peeling apart this synergy of leisure, speculation, and profit in Roman villas can reformat our current landscape speculative practices.
Fritz Haeg
Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Artist, Designer, Gardener, and Writer, Los Angeles, CA
Roman Wilderness MMX: Urban Agriculture, Animal Architecture, and Street Choreography
I studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, and later lived in a Tuscan farmhouse. Focused on a life in art and architecture, I was surprised to find myself more inspired by the Italian celebration of quotidian life than the spectacle of the architecture and art. These projects reflect this interest.
What do Romans eat, and could some of that produce be grown on the streets where they live?
I will research Roman urban agriculture, plant a garden for a Roman family, and tell their story.
What animals are native to the city of Rome, and which ones might be welcomed back?
I will work with urban wildlife experts, make model homes for native Roman wildlife, and other related projects.
How do Romans occupy and move through their city, what is their particular street choreography?
I will create choreography proposing new ways of moving through the city.
Literature
Jay Hopler
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of South Florida
The Rooster King
Currently, I have about forty pages toward a second poetry collection. The collection is entitled The Rooster King and begins where my first collection, The Green Squall, ends: in the ruins of a once-flourishing garden. From the ruins of that garden, the poems in my second collection seem to be moving outward into the human world and, from there, into the ether and the nether-heavens where angels still bicker over the relative merits of humankind.
Heather McGowan
John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Writer, Brooklyn, NY
The Black Paintings
I will work on The Black Paintings, a novel about a family that takes place in New York and Berlin over a period of thirty years.
Musical Composition
Huck Hodge
Luciano Berio Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, Department of Music, University of Washington
Augurios for ensemble, Scenes from Faust for symphonic wind ensemble
I plan to work on two projects. The first piece is to be a joint commission for the Paris-based Aleph Ensemble and the Holland-based Ensemble Insomnio, which will be premiered at the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam with later performances scheduled for 2011 in Paris. The second project, a consortium commission for symphonic wind ensemble, will be a reflection on images from FW Murnauʼs 1926 silent film version of the Faust legend. In addition to the musical piece, I will be editing scenes from the film to screen during the performances. The piece will be premiered at the National Conference of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA).
Paul Rudy
Elliott Carter Rome Prize
Professor, Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri at Kansas City
2012 Stories Nos. 5-7 and Saxophone Concerto for Bobby Watson
In the past two years, I have composed four CD length works in a series called 2012 Stories, all supported by commissions and residencies. I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) for In lake'ch, (Mayan for "I am another yourself") the first work in the series composed in Taos, New Mexico. The second, Kuxan suum ("Road to the sky"), was commissioned and composed in France and the third, Zuvuya ("Circle of life"), in Mexico and returned to Taos for the 4th this summer titled Sian ka'an. Currently I am working on No.5: Cannac ("there is no form without spirit"). This series, a multi-faceted single large work (eventually 9-11 hours long), is meeting with critical acclaim and is international in scope, and will be completed by 2012. I will be composing two CD length works Kinan (No.6, Mayan for "Solar force") and Chanes (No.7, "Family of Light") in Rome.
Visual Arts
Dike Blair
Chuck Close Rome Prize
Senior Critic, Department of Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
Painting and sculpture
I propose making a number of paintings and sculptures, the sense of which will certainly contain some kind of everyday Roman flavor.
Felipe Dulzaides
Jesse Howard, Jr./Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
Visiting Faculty, The San Francisco Art Institute
Full Circle
My work is process oriented and research based. During my residency I plan to develop an interdisciplinary body of work that addresses a defining autobiographical incident that took place in Italy. In July of 1991 while touring with a Cuban experimental theater group I "defected". This body of work will evolve around a video about this escaping experience. I intend to shoot this video with the help of local citizens and some of the individuals who helped me at that time. I also plan to revisit and develop pieces at the sites that served as a backdrop for this "life changing experience": Rome, Sperlonga and Campagna. I see these pieces as interactions with those locations, its citizens and the individuals that played key rolls in that defining moment. The proposed project is a reflective journey since almost twenty years has already past.
Sarah Oppenheimer
Gilmore D. Clarke/Michael Rapuano Rome Prize
Critic, Department of Painting, Yale University
Roman Holes
The Keyhole of the Knights of Malta in Rome collapses the space of the city into a discrete vignette. The keyhole acts as a simple framing device. Visually isolating sections of urban space into a pictorial hierarchy, the hole coordinates the built and landscaped space of the city. Roman Holes is an intensive exploration into the use of holes as a visual framing device embedded within Roman architecture. I will explore how these openings impact the moving subject, and how the views through these openings are impacted both by the position of the viewer and changes in the scene beyond.
Karen Yasinsky
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Adjunct Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art
Life is an Opinion, Fire is a Fact
I propose to create an animated film that uses as a literal and conceptual starting point, one of the final scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky's film Nostalgia. Framed within the Piazza del Campidoglio, Domenico, a pathologically conflicted character, sets fire to himself, high upon the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. Beginning with this horrific yet cinematically beautiful spectacle, I want to move the character backwards and explore ideas of faith and the intentions behind dramatic and drastic actions. The images from Guilio Romano's Sala dei Giganti in the Palazzo del Te will play a part in Domenico's story, representative of an ambiguous, conflicted statement of virtuosity and anger. The animation will be 2-D and include hand drawn passages, cutout and collage animation. Images of gardens, paintings, statues and found photographs will come from research in Rome.
Humanities
Ancient Studies
Seth G. Bernard
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Men at Work: Public Construction, Labor, and Society in Middle Republican Rome
My project explores the social context of the building industry in Middle Republican Rome (c. 390-168 BCE). During this period, Rome was transformed from a modest Italian settlement into the capital city of a Mediterranean empire. The newly built circuit wall, aqueducts, roads, temples, and porticoes required unprecedented outlays of expense and manpower. Drawing from a variety of material such as archaeology, literary and documentary sources, and numismatics, I look at how the urban fabric was configured, and how the increasingly complex construction industry reshaped Roman society. Comparative history shows us that in any preindustrial city, monumental construction was a difficult and labor-intensive process. Rome was no exception. Technology, financial history, and labor history all converge to show the importance of the building process to Rome's residents in the Middle Republic.
M. Shane Bjornlie
Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College
Politics and Tradition in Sixth-Century Italy: A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae
This project examines the political context for a collection of governmental letters written by Cassiodorus during Italy's transition from a late-classical to a post-classical society. The collection (the Variae) contains diplomatic, administrative and legal briefs to which scholarship has often turned for insights into the continuities/discontinuities that Cassiodorus' Italy had with earlier Roman society, positioning the text prominently in debates concerning 'decline and fall'. The present study argues that, rather than a passive witness to the early sixth century, Cassiodorus constructed in the Variae a rhetorical presentation of Italy as a political apologetic for the bureaucratic elite who had served under the Ostrogothic regime by deploying certain key themes (bureaucratic corporatism, legal traditionalism, natural conceptions of law). By examining this bureaucratic code in its relationship to external political and social pressures, this study provides a model for understanding the intersection of politics, philosophy and literature.
Lauren M. Kinnee
Frank Brown/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
The Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Emblem of Power
The trophy phenomenon, an ancient Mediterranean mode of victory commemoration encompassing a variety of visual forms, is usually viewed as a wholly Greek convention due to its Greek origins. Scholarship has consequently neglected the Roman trophy. Nonetheless, close examination reveals that soon after the Romans adopted the trophy (ca. 211 BC) they began to make striking innovations by introducing a diverse repertoire of forms, meanings, and usages without Greek precedent. The Roman trophy is stark testimony to originality in the Roman visual arts, particularly with respect to expressions of military might. I propose a new, critical study of the ancient trophy illuminating the unique, Roman innovations to trophy design. I offer a series of well-documented case studies of the various types of Roman-period trophy monuments in order to analyze their historical development and to produce a new interpretive framework for understanding their meanings in their own time.
Andrew M. Riggsby
National Endowment for the Humanities/Roger A. Hornsby Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Professor, Departments of Classics and Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Think Like a Roman: Essays in Cognitive History
The essays in this book address issues in Roman cognition by a combination of traditional philological methods and insights from modern cognitive science. The specific areas are (1) deliberate organizational devices; (2) the organization of time and space; and (3) the role of general cognitive factors in persuasion. The grouping of previously diverse inquiries under the head of cognition allows important new insights. The ensemble illustrates the interaction of cognitive and non-cognitive factors in the use and evolution of information (and other) technologies. It also illustrates the contingency of construals of particular situations/events/persons. This arises from different framings tied to different-use contexts, but that diversity can then be harnessed rhetorically to negotiate agents' desired outcomes. The value of these general claims is illustrated in novel readings of a variety of texts, objects, and features of classical Roman culture.
Elizabeth C. Robinson
Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)
Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Larinum: A Case Study for the Romanization of Southern Italy
I will continue dissertation research on the Romanization of southern Italy using Larinum as a case study. This site, a non-Roman capital in the fourth and third centuries BCE, was incorporated into the Roman state in the first century BCE. In order to create a comprehensive picture of cultural change at this site, I will assemble the ancient sources and extant remains pertaining to Larinum from the fourth century BCE to the first century CE. I will conduct library research in Rome, and I will examine the settlement patterns around Larinum, the monuments and inscriptions at the site, and the unpublished votive and funerary artifacts in storerooms at Larino, Isernia, and Campobasso. I will explore how these remains illustrate the continuity and change of cultural elements. My unique study will provide valuable new information about processes of cultural change at this site before and after Roman conquest.
Tyler T. Travillian
Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of Classical Studies, Boston University
The Corpus Priapeorum: a Textual Edition with Introduction and Commentary
I will create a comprehensive introduction, textual edition, and scholarly commentary of the Priapea, a collection of eighty poems that scholars have generally avoided on account of their risqué contents. I will explore the arrangement of the Priapea as a poetry book, analyze the whole text from a literary standpoint, and consider its relationship to Roman sexual attitudes. I am therefore collating all of the extant manuscripts--some have never been consulted--thirty-five of which are in Italy and half of those in Rome. While in Rome, I will use the manuscripts and catalogues of the Vatican Archives; the sculptural and epigraphic collections of the Roman museums; the extensive libraries of the Academy and neighboring universities, especially their collections of early Renaissance editions of Virgil; and the differing perspectives of the other scholars on the Priapea and its themes, especially in Medieval and Renaissance art and literature.
Medieval Studies
Holly Flora
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
Cimabue, the Franciscans, and Artistic Change in Late Medieval Italy
Since the age of Dante, Cenni di Pepo (c. 1240-1302), known as Cimabue, has been considered the founding father of Italian painting. My proposed project will be the first contextual study of Cimabue and the Franciscan order, his most frequent patron. Cimabue's art is primarily studied from the point of view of Florence, his native city, although he is first documented in Rome. A reconsideration of the works of Cimabue and his contemporaries in Rome and Assisi under the patronage of the Franciscan pope Nicholas IV will be at the heart of this study. I will examine Roman mosaics and frescoes by artists such as Jacopo Torriti and Pietro Cavallini as key influences on Cimabue's creation of a new artistic idiom in the service of Franciscan ideologies. An exploration of Franciscan literary sources will also offer a broader view of the religious and historical circumstances that shaped his art.
Carly Jane Steinborn
Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)
Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Transforming Sacred Space: Image and Materiality in the Orthodox Baptistery of Ravenna
My project focuses on the fifth-century Orthodox Baptistery in Ravenna. Through consideration of the Baptistery's imagery and its exceptional variety of media, I investigate how images, inscriptions, materials, and liturgical performance acted in dialogue with one another and together helped enhanced the initiate's "rebirth" and new found union with a Christian God. The Baptistery's rich combination of imagery, lavish materials, and prominent inscriptions reveals the sophisticated and compelling ways in which ecclesiastical patrons generated new members for an increasingly powerful Church and heightened the moment of conversion. Through study of this important monument, therefore, I explore issues of materiality, text-and-image relationships, liturgical experience, and episcopal power in fifth-century Italy. In so doing, I hope to offer new and more nuanced insights into the dynamic interaction between images, materials, and viewers within the Baptistery itself and, by extension, the sacred spaces of early medieval Italy.
Modern Italian Studies
Stephanie Malia Hom
Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, University of Oklahoma
Destination Italy: Tourism, Nation, Place
My Rome Prize project explores the phenomenon of mass tourism and how it has shaped the modern Italian nation-state since the mid-nineteenth century. I trace the evolution of Italy-as-destination in my eponymous book manuscript-starting with rhetorical constructions of "Italy" in guidebooks, to their implementation in tourist practices, and finally, their physical incarnations as simulacra outside the peninsula, creating a globalized Italy without Italians separate from national territory. Indeed, Italy's identity as a modern nation has long been intimately bound up with its identity as a destination.
Jennifer Scappettone
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago
Stanza as "Homicile": Environments of Exile in Italian Language Arts after World War II
This research charts the composition of a transnational consciousness in linguistic experimentation across literary, sonic, and visual arts in post-Fascist Rome. Exploration of the ouevres of authors Emilio Villa and Amelia Rosselli, emphasizing their work across languages and genres, aims to track a dual compulsion in Italian poetics poised between the formal heritage of futurism and the sociohistorical fallout of the conflict futurists glorified: a drive to express particular consequences of the violent dispersion of an imagined Italian "fatherland" and its "mother tongue," accompanied by a utopian effort to forge poetic environments that would house an objective, universal language. The projected archival work seeks to bring to light the collaboration between this poetry and contemporary trends toward ambience in the arts, and to situate its formal innovations within a broader postwar reckoning with the patria ideale of Italy as a plural, transient, and even diasporic cultural formation.
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Kathryn Blair Moore
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
Italian Copies of Holy Land Architecture: The Illustrated Versions of Niccolò da Poggibonsi’s Libro d’Oltramare
The Holy Land guidebook created by the Franciscan Niccolò da Poggibonsi during his four-year journey in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt (1346-50) has only been known through unillustrated manuscript copies of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The woodcut illustrations of the printed version of the guidebook, published anonymously in Bologna in 1500 and reprinted over 60 times until the nineteenth century, have been dismissed as works of artistic fantasy. My project focuses on four previously unknown illustrated manuscript copies which were the basis of these woodcuts. These illustrate every major building and city of the Holy Land – including the Holy Sepulcher, the Dome of the Rock, and the cities of Damascus and Cairo. The oldest version could be the autograph copy, with drawings created by Niccolò da Poggibonsi himself. More generally, the manuscripts provide evidence for how the visualization of Holy Land architecture in Italy emerged from the textual culture of pilgrimage accounts.
Staphanie Nadalo
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of History, Northwestern University
Constructing Pluralism in Seventeenth Century Livorno
My project explores the social, cultural, administrative, and urban solutions employed to accommodate the religiously and ethnically diverse resident population in the Tuscan port of Livorno (1591-1714). In an act of economic and political desperation, the Medici duchy constructed Livorno nearly ex novo and initiated an aggressive policy to populate the insalubrious frontier city. The 1591 Livornina legislation offered comprehensive economic, social, legal, and religious protections to Jews, Armenians, Turks, and other religious minorities. As a result, Livorno became a laboratory for architects, engineers, and administrative officials to experiment with urban solutions to accomodate the socio-cultural requirements of pluralistic cohabitation and the economic-logistical demands of commerce. Drawing on methodologies from urban studies and social history, this project distinguishes the myths of state-mandated tolerance from the realities of early modern pluralism by investigating how social patterns were mediated by the port's residential, commercial, social, and religious spaces.
Barbara Naddeo
Paul Mellon/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of History, CUNY: The City College of New York
Birth of a Metropolis: The Open City and the Social Sciences in Naples, 1650--1800
Birth of a Metropolis examines the transformation of Naples over the long eighteenth century and the consequences of that transformation for the sorts of knowledges produced by Neapolitans about their city. First, it documents the astonishing rate at which the capital city of Naples grew and the territorial expansion required to accommodate that growth. At the same time, this study shows that the capital not only outgrew its political confines, or città, but grappled to make sense of the moral order of a city that was larger than its political territory and more diverse than its citizenry. Thus, this study suggests that the demise of the city as both a bounded political entity and as a codified field of civic behavior made the development and application of the human sciences not only compelling but also instrumental within what was one of Europe's most dynamic and protean capital cities.
Michael J. Waters
Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Materials, Materiality, and Spolia in Italian Renaissance Architecture: 1420-1540
This project revises our understanding of the character and development of Renaissance architecture in Italy from 1420 to 1540 through the critical lens of architectural materiality. It argues that the choice, manipulation, and placement of building materials were an essential vehicle through which builders expressed meaning and evoked antiquity. By focusing on the Renaissance column and wall, my project breaks down a series of examples syntactically into their component material parts to understand shifts in materiality over time in and across Tuscany, Lombardy, Venice, and Rome. It also specifically scrutinizes a series of central issues: the monolithic column, semi-monolithic construction, the materiality of the Orders, stone façades, rustication, marble revetment, fictive painting, spoliation, and materiality in the age of printing. By methodically addressing the question of how materials and concepts of materiality shaped Italian Renaissance architecture, my dissertation establishes a means of more fully understanding the Renaissance built environment.
Residents
Robert Beaser, FAAR'78
Paul Fromm Composer in Residence
Professor and Chairman
Composition Department, Juilliard School
Artistic Director, American Composers Orchestra
New York, NY
May - June
Craig Gibson
Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence (Ancient Studies)
Associate Professor of Classics
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
March - May
Hugh Hardy
William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence
Architect, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture
New York, NY
April - June
Rachel Jacoff
American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (Medieval Studies)
Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature
Professor of Italian, Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
September - November
William Kentridge
Roy Lichtenstein Visual Artist in Residence
Artist, Johannesburg, South Africa
May - May
Rosamond McKitterick
Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence (Medieval Studies)
Professor of History
Fellow of Sidney Sussex College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
March - May
Richard Moe
James Marston Fitch Resident in Historic Preservation
President, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington, D.C.
October - October
Douglas Reed
American Academy in Rome Resident in Landscape Architecture
Principal, Reed/Hilderbrand
Watertown, MA
March - April
David Rosand
James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence (Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)
Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History
Columbia University
New York, NY
March - April
Ellen Rosand
American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)
Professor of Music History, Yale University
New Haven, CT
March - April
Board of Trustees
Laurie Anderson, RAAR'06
Mercedes T. Bass
Drew Beattie, FAAR’95*
Boris Biancheri
Suzanne Deal Booth
Verdella Caracciolo di Forino
Christopher Celenza, FAAR'94
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR’84*
David M. Childs, RAAR’04
Chuck Close, RAAR’96
Daniel G. Cohen
Michael Conforti, FAAR’76, RAAR’08
Bernard D. Frischer, FAAR'76, RAAR'97
Elaine K. Gazda
Barbara Goldsmith
Anthony Grafton, RAAR’04
Eugenio Grippo
Richard L. Grubman
William B. Hart
Rea S. Hederman
Drue Heinz
Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98
Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84
Thomas F. Kelly, FAAR’86, RAAR’02
Paul LeClerc
Diane Britz Lotti
Thom Mayne
Roberto A. Mignone
Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09
Bruce Nauman
Susan Nitze
Nancy Novogrod
Nancy M. O’Boyle
John R. Phillips
John A. Pinto, FAAR’75, RAAR’06
Jessie H. Price
Michael Rock, FAAR’00
C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92
Louisa Stude Sarofim
John M. Shapiro
Robert B. Silvers
Laurie Simmons, RAAR’05
Frank M. Snowden, RAAR’03
Robert Storr
Mark Strand, RAAR’83
Steven Stucky, RAAR’06
Billie Tsien, RAAR’00
Cy Twombly
Fred Wilson
Life Trustees
Michael Graves, FAAR’62, RAAR’79
Michael C.J. Putnam, FAAR'64, RAAR'70
FAAR = Fellow of the American Academy in Rome
RAAR = Resident of the American Academy in Rome
*Ex-officio
Trustees Emeriti
Affiliated Fellows
Pamela Ballinger, FAAR'02
ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Affiliated Fellow
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine
September - June
Maura Biava
Royal Dutch Institute Affiliated Fellow
Visual Artist
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September - January
Ann Brownlee
William Penn Foundation Affiliated Fellow
Adjunct Assistant Professor of the History of Art
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November - December
Vera Chlebnikova
Joseph Brodsky Affiliated Fellow
Visual Artist
December - March
Andrea Clearfield
William Penn Foundation Affiliated Fellow
Composer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September - November
Stacey D’Erasmo
Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellow
Assistant Professor of Writing
Columbia University
New York, New York
May - June
Leah Giamalva
University of Tennessee Affiliated Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate in History
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
May - June
Ivan Govorkov
Joseph Brodsky Affiliated Fellow
Visual Artist
St. Petersburg, Russia
September - December
Charles Granquist
National Trust for Historic Preservation Affiliated Fellow
Executive Director, Pocantico Center at Kykuit
Sleepy Hollow, New York
October - November
Ismail Idil
Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ Getty Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Basin Research Exchange Fellow
Professor, University of Ankara
Ankara, Turkey
October - November
Khalid Khreis
Affiliated Fellow from Jordan
Director General
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
Amman, Jordan
October - November
Giovanna Latis
Elsa Peretti Italian Affiliated Fellow in Design
Architect & Designer
Milan, Italy
April - August
Paola Pivi
Italian Fellow in the Arts
Visual Artist
Anchorage, Alaska
January - April
Danica Pusic
AAR/ Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Echange Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Pisa, Italy
January - June
Marco Raparelli
Italian Fellow in the Arts
Visual Artist
Rome, Italy
September - January
Marco Rossati
AAR/ Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Echange Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Pisa, Italy
September - January
Jessica Sisk
Berthe M. Marthi Affiliated Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate in Classical Studies
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
September - October
Minah Song
William Penn Foundation Affiliated Fellow
Paper Conservator
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April - May
Jana Vander Goot
Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America Affiliated Fellow
Architect
Charlottesville, Virginia
September - December
Alex Walthall
Multi-Country Research Fellowship of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
October - November
Visiting Artists and Scholars
Juries
2010 Juries
Ancient Studies
Clifford Ando
Professor of Classics
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Cynthia Damon
Professor of Classical Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Elaine Gazda (Jury Chair)
Professor, Department of the History of Art
University of Michigan
Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Antiquities
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Ann Arbor, MI
Christine Kondoleon, RAAR'07
George and Margo Behrakis Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
Roger B. Ulrich, FAAR'82
Professor of Classics
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Design
Richard Barnes, FAAR'06
Photographer
Beacon, NY
Montclair, NJ
Anita de la Rosa Berrizbeitia, FAAR'06
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA
Henry N. Cobb, RAAR'92
Founding Partner
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
New York, NY
Guy Nordenson, RAAR’09 (Jury Chair)
Partner, Guy Nordenson and Associates
New York, NY
Professor, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Calvin Tsao, RAAR'10
Principal
Tsao & McKown Architects
New York, NY
Historic Preservation and Conservation
Pamela Hatchfield, FAAR’07
Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
Jorge L. Hernandez (Jury Chair)
Principal
Jorge L. Hernandez Architect
Coral Gables, FL
Daniel P. Jordan, Ph.D., RAAR’09
President Emeritus,
Thomas Jefferson Foundation,
Charlottesville, VA
Literature
Philip Levine
Poet
Romulus Linney
Playwright
Rosanna Warren, RAAR'01
Poet
Joy Williams
Novelist
Medieval Studies
Marcia L. Colish
Professor of History Emerita
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Visiting Fellow in History
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Edward D. English
Professor, Medieval Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Dorothy F. Glass, FAAR’86
Professor Emerita, University at Buffalo
New York, NY
Thomas Forrest Kelly, FAAR'86, RAAR'02 (Jury Chair)
Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Paul E. Szarmach
Executive Director/Editor, Speculum
Medieval Academy of America
Cambridge, MA
Modern Italian Studies
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Jury Chair)
Chair, Department of Italian Studies/Professor of Italian Studies and History
New York University
New York, NY
Richard Etlin, FAAR’81
Distinguished University Professor, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
Mia Fuller, FAAR’98
Associate Professor of Italian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Mary Gibson, FAAR’03, RAAR’10
Professor of History
John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, NY
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Brown University
Providence, RI
Musical Composition
Stephen Hartke, FAAR'92 (Jury Chair)
Distinguished Professor of Composition
Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Jim Mobberley, FAAR'90
Curator’s Professor of Music
University of Missouri at Kansas City, Conservatory of Music and Dance
Kansas City, MO
Shulamit Ran
Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music
University of Chicago
Artistic Director
Contempo (the Contemporary Chamber Players)
Chicago, IL
Roberto Sierra
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Music Department
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Mark Wingate, FAAR’99
Associate Professor of Composition
Florida State University College of Music
Tallahassee, FL
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Shane Butler, FAAR'99 (Jury Chair)
Associate Professor of Classics
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Martha Feldman
Professor of Music
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
David Marsh, FAAR’83
Professor of Italian
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Alexander Nagel
Professor of the History of Art
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
New York, NY
Visual Arts
Darsie Alexander
Chief Curator
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
Heidi Fasnacht
Artist, New York, NY
Parson's The New School for Design
Maria Elena Gonzalez, FAAR’04
Artist
New York, NY
Catherine Murphy
Artist
Hyde Park, NY
Senior Critic
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Richard Rezac, FAAR’07 (Jury Chair)
Artist and Adjunct Full Professor
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Bruce Yonemoto
Artist
Los Angeles, CA
Department Chair and Professor of Studio Art
University of California,Irvine, CA
Irvine, CA
Staff
New York
Barbara Alton
Office of the President/Executive Assistant
Benjamin Brown
Consulting Archivist
Anibal Carrion
Accountant
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR'84
President and CEO
Brendan Connelly
Program Assistant
Daniel Curtis
Volunteer
Enrico Dressler
Office of the President/Administrative Assistant
Jennifer Dudley
Associate Director of Development
Rosalin Duran
Finance/Administrative Assistant
Christiana Killian
Development Associate
Elizabeth Gray Kogen
Vice President for Development
Suzanne Liebolt
Office of the President/Corporate Secretary
Shawn Miller
Program Director
Cristina Puglisi
Assistant Director for Properties
Milena Sales
Director of External Affairs
Curt B. Sharp
Vice President for Finance and Administration
Rome
Christopher Celenza, FAAR’94
Director
Administration
Gianpaolo Battaglia
Executive Secretary
Fabio Buccioni
Systems Support Specialist
Tina Cancemi
Assistant for External Affairs
Inga Clausing
Campaign Associate
Luigi de Marco
Superintendent of Facilities
Marina Lella
Executive Assistant to the Director
Marvin Mari
Systems Support Specialist
Pina Pasquantonio
Assistant Director for Operations
Alessandra Vinciguerra
Bass Superintendent of Gardens
Programs Department
Giulia Barra
Programs Assistant
T. Corey Brennan, FAAR'88
Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies
Roberto Caracciolo
Arts Liaison
Anne Coulson
Senior Programs Associate
Lexi Eberspacher
Programs Associate
Karl Kirchwey, FAAR'95
Andrew Heiskell Arts Director
Gianni Ponti
Archaeology Liaison
Richard Trythall
Music Liaison
Finance
Francesco Cagnizzi
Assistant Director for Finance
Roberto La Gioia
Bookkeeper
Lidia Villani
Cashier
Library
Paolo Brozzi
Stacks Assistant
Denise Gavio
Assistant Librarian
Kristine Iara
Bibliographic Specialist/Research Associate
Paolo Imperatori
Assistant Librarian
Rebecka Lindau
Drue Heinz Librarian
Tina Mirra
Acquisitions Assistant
Antonio Palladino
Preservation Assistant
Anne-Marie Viola
Library Assistant
Daniela Williams
Library Assistant
Photographic Archive
Alessandra Capodiferro
Curator
Giulia Ciccarello
Lavinia Ciuffa
Curatorial Assistant
Paola Ciuffa
Emiliano Di Carlo
Maria Sole Fabri
Villa Aurelia
Andrew Bay
Assistant
Alfredo Cianfrocca
Caretaker
Fiorella De Carolis
Paola Gaetani
Villa Aurelia Manager
Gate Reception
Renzo Carissimi
Head Gatekeeper
Stefano Sotgia
Substitute Gatekeeper
Rainer Tullner
Gatekeeper
Luca Zamponi
Gatekeeper
Housekeeping
Sebastiano Bellanca
Luana Di Marzio
Fabrizio Lambiti
Massimo Porcelli
Fabio Stocchi
Elena Tinaburri
Claudia Tonetti
Head of Housekeeping
Buildings and Maintenance
Mauro Abbatelli
Head of Maintenance
Giorgio Cei
Christoph Dell'Ospedale
Tommaso Musa
Grounds
Marco Casani
Head Gardener, Villa Aurelia
Luigi Cocozza
Head Gardener, McKim Mead & White
Leonardo Destito
Enzo Donati
Andrea Francini
Rome Sustainable Food Project
Nick Beitcher
Summer Intern
Christopher Boswell
Sous Chef
Domenico Cortese
Cook
Tiziana Del Grosso
Waitress
Michele Ghebrehawareit
Dishwasher
Francesca Gilberti
Summer Intern
Allesandro Lima
Waiter
Michal Matejczuk
Summer Intern
Alex McAdams
Summer Intern
Mirella Misenti
Pastry Cook
Douglas Rosado
Dishwasher
Gabriel Soare
Bartender
Nelly Spitchenko
Waitress
Teddy Szemberg-O'Connor
Summer Intern
Mona Talbott
Executive Chef
Sofie Wochner
Summer Intern
Twolde Woldenkidan
Dishwasher
Society of Fellows
The Society is composed of all Rome Prize Fellows, Residents and affiliates of the American Academy in Rome. A council elected by the members represents the views of the Society of Fellows in regard to significant concerns of the Academy and serves as a liaison between the Society and the Academy's President and Board of Trustees.
The Society's broad mission is fourfold:
-to provide assistance, expertise and information to Fellows, Residents, affiliates and the Academy proper;
-to sponsor public events that are of interest to the Academy community and that promote the work of the Society's members and the Academy;
-to foster collaboration and a spirit of community among the Society's members;
-and to encourage continuing involvement with, and support of, the Academy.
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The Academy
The American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers for independent studies and advanced research in the fine arts and humanities. It is a place where extraordinary moments have brought creative talents together in unexpected ways. Yehudi Wyner, a 1953 Rome Prize winner in music, said, "The Italian experience - which in the beginning lasted three years - was among the profoundest and most long lasting influences on my life in terms of an approach to life."
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School of Fine Arts
The School of Fine Arts provides support to the annual Rome Prize Fellows in architecture, design arts, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, and visual arts.
The School of Fine Arts sponsors public programs to provide Fellows a cultural bridge between the United States, Italy, and Europe. Among the activities designed for the Fellows are site visits and trips to locations of cultural interest as well as visits to the Academy by influential artists and scholars.
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School of Classical Studies
Founded in 1895 as the American School of Classical Studies in Rome (which merged into the Academy in 1913), the Academy's scholarly division offers fellowships in all phases of Italy's history and culture, from the ancient world to modern times.
Each year, through its Rome Prize competition, the Academy awards twelve fellowships for research in Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Italian Studies.
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The Library
Library
Renovated in 2006/2007, the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library contains over 135,000 volumes in Classical studies and the history of art and architecture.
Especially strong and widely respected are its collections in ancient Mediterranean archaeology and art, Greek and Latin literature, ancient topography including the history of the city of Rome, ancient religions, and related fields such as epigraphy, numismatics and papyrology.
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The Gardens
The American Academy includes eleven acres of organically-cultivated gardens atop the Janiculum Hill, an area in Rome with a long history of gardens. Part of the Horti Caesaris and Getae, it was occupied in the sixteenth century by several Casini in Vigna and in the late nineteenth century by smaller villas and gardens.Since the adoption of the organic cultivation method, twelve varieties of butterflies have settled on the Academy grounds, and they have become a haven for hedgehogs, robins, herons, blue tits, woodpeckers, lizards, and a variety of bees.
In 1986, the Academy's Board of Trustees launched a campaign to restore the gardens to their original splendor.
In 1990, the Academy began the implementation of the Landscape Master Plan, which continues today.
The Academy's two main gardens are those around the Villa Aurelia and the Mercedes and Sid R. Bass Garden behind the McKim, Mead & White Building and around the Casa Rustica.
Villa Aurelia Gardens
Villa Aurelia has been the property of the American Academy in Rome since 1909 and is the site for cultural events organized by the Academy, such as concerts and conferences. The recently restored Villa is perched on the crest of the Janiculum Hill, one of Rome's great hills. The beauty of the Villa gardens, the breathtaking views of the historic city center, and the variety of spaces available make Villa Aurelia an ideal location for private events such as receptions, dinners and board meetings.
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The original gardens, laid down by the Farnese at the end of 1600, were destroyed in a bombardment by French artillery in 1849.
Old engravings and maps show a formal space divided into geometrical areas by rows of trees. This layout survived for centuries with few changes.
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The Bass Garden
Behind the McKim, Mead & White Building lies the Mercedes and Sid R. Bass Garden which recalls the vanished landscape of the Roman countryside. In fact, it occupies the site of a 17th century vineyard, Vigna Malvasia, that surrounded the building known today as Casa Rustica. The defensive walls of Rome, built in 1642-1644 by Pope Urban VIII, enclose two sides of the garden. The overall atmosphere is that of a quiet, rural place with simple plantings and a domestic feeling. Fruit trees, olives and cypresses edge the sloping lawns, dotted with chamomile daisies and naturalized bulbs.
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The Janiculum
The American Academy in Rome occupies ten building and eleven acres of gardens atop the Janiculum, the highest hill within the walls of Rome. Among the buildings are the McKim, Mead & White building known as the Academy building, the Villa Aurelia and the Casa Rustica.The boundaries of the property are marked by several notable monuments. To the west is Porta San Pancrazio, once the Porta Aurelia of the city wall built in 1642-1644 by Pope Urban VIII. To the east is the majestic fountain of the Acqua Paola, built in 1612 by Pope Paul V.
The Villa Aurelia was built on top of the walls erected in 280 A.D. by the Roman Emperor Aurelian, while the Academy building was constructed above and aqueduct of Trajan, which can still be accessed through the building's basement.
The northern part of the Academy was originally owned by the Farnese family while the southern end was the property of the Barberini and Colonna di Sciarra families.
Villa Aurelia
The Villa Aurelia, originally built for Cardinal Girolamo Farnese around 1650, is the setting for conferences, public receptions, concerts, and other programs. It also includes apartments for the Academy's Residents, Visiting Artists, and Visiting Scholars and is surrounded by 3.8 acres of magnificent gardens.
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McKim, Mead & White building (Academy building)
The Academy building is the only structure in Europe designed by McKim, Mead & White.
Charles Follen McKim (1847 - 1909) was among the founders of the Academy and was President of the Academy when the building was first conceived.
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Casa Rustica
Situated in the Academy's Mercedes and Sid R. Bass Garden, Casa Rustica was built on the site of a small villa or casino constructed at the end of the 16th century by Cardinal Innocenzo Malvasia.
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Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (MAAR) began publication in 1915, shortly after the union of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome and the American Academy in Rome. The contents of the first thirty-nine Quarto volumes have varied, consisting at different times of collections of articles, monographic studies, final excavation reports, and collections of conference papers.Volume 40, bearing the calendar date of 1995, initiated a new phase in the life of Memoirs, which has subsequently appeared as an annual journal containing articles in the wide range of fields that have traditionally been important to the Academy. These include classical studies and archaeology, art history, and Italian cultural and historical studies from the Middle Ages to the present. Submissions are encouraged from any scholar working in these fields; formal affiliation with the Academy is not necessary. A new supplementary series, entitled Supplements to MAAR (SMAAR), will accommodate illustrated monographs in art history and archaeology as well as excavation reports.
Guidelines for Contributors
Notes for contributors to Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (articles)
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American Academy in Rome
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American Academy in Rome Annual Exhibition - 1998
By Peter Boswell, Gabriele Stocchi, and Sarah Hartman
Edited by Maureen B. Fant
Printed by Litografia Bruni - Pomezia (Rome)
A catalogue of the annual show reflecting the work of the 1997-98 Fellows and Residents in the School of Fine Arts. 119 pages
Price $15.00
American Academy in Rome Annual Exhibition - 1999
By Peter Boswell, Sheila Pierce, and Julie Yanson
Edited by Maureen B. Fant
Printed by Litografia Bruni - Pomezia (Rome)
A catalogue of the annual show reflecting the work of the 1998-99 Fellows and Residents in the School of Fine Arts. 114 pages
Price $15.00
The Centennial Directory of the American Academy in Rome
Edited by Benjamin G. Kohl, Wayne A. Linker and Buff S. Kavelman
Designed and Published by Italica Press, 1995
This volume was produced to honor the long list of those who, for the last century since the founding of the Academy, have become a part of its community. Compilation includes Fellows, Residents, Trustees, Trustee Emeriti, Visiting Artists and Scholars plus more. Approximately 1400 entries and 200 festschrifts. 387 pages
Price $35.00
The Academy & The Forum: One Hundred Years in the Eternal City
By Russell T. Scott, Paul Rosenthal and Vittorio Emiliani
Sponsored by the American Express Foundation
1996
One of the richest sites for exploration and home to the earliest foundations of government and politics, The Roman Forum is discovered layer by layer in this Italian-English publication. 96 pages
Price $15.00
American Academy in Rome Annual Exhibition - 1997
By Martha Boyden, Gabriele Stocchi, and Sarah Hartman
Edited by Maureen B. Fant
Printed by Litografia Bruni - Pomezia (Rome)
A catalogue of the annual show reflecting the work of the 1996-97 Fellows and Residents in the School of Fine Arts. 109 pages
Price $15.00
American Academy in Rome Annual Exhibition - 1996
By Martha Boyden, Caroline Howard and Sarah Hartman
Edited by Maureen B. Fant
Printed by Litografia Bruni - Pomezia (Rome)
A catalogue of the annual show reflecting the work of the Fellows and Residents in the School of Fine Arts. 109 pages
Price $15.00
American Academy in Rome Annual Exhibition - 1995
By Martha Boyden, Caroline Howard Mary Curran and Gabriele Stocchi
Printed by Litografia Bruni - Pomezia (Rome)
A catalogue representing the work of Fellows and Residents in the School of Fine Arts at the Academy. 93 pages
Price $15.00
American Academy in Rome: Celebrating a Century
Edited by Wayne A. Linker and Jerry Max
Designed and Produced by Vignelli Associates
1995
This book is a tribute to all those who have been part of the American Academy's history -- past, present and future. 187 pages
Price $15.00
American Art in Italian Private Collections
By Martha Boyden
Supplementary text by Maurizio Calvesi, Giovanni Carandente and Gabriella Drudi
The catalogue represents an exhibition of works of eight artists in private Italian collections. The selection ranges from the post Second World War period until the advent of Pop Art. 112 pages
Price $15.00
A Roman Collection: Stories, Poems, and Other Good Pieces by the Writing Residents of the American Academy in Rome
Edited by Miller Williams
An anthology of writings by men and women who have resided at the American Academy in Rome. This book is considered to be a reflection of Rome where church bells and pickpockets are experienced side by side with classical ruins and baroque art. 309 pages
Price $15.00
Esther B. Van Deman: Images from the Archive of an American Archaeologist at the Turn of the Century
Edited by Karin Einaudi with contributions by Prof. Katherine Geffcken
The documentation of an exhibition at the American Academy in Rome, Italy 1991 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology of the University of Michigan. 120 pages
Price $15.00
University of Michigan Press
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Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome: Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodis, Volume XXXI
By Christopher S. Celenza
This book examines the inner workings of Italian Renaissance humanism and its relationship to the papal court from the perspective of a closely placed outsider looking in. It also provides the first truly critical edition and first-ever English translation of an important but undervalued text, Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's On the Benefits of the Curia.
264 pages, ISBN 0-472-10994-4, cloth
(1999) $47.50
Cosa: The Lamps; Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XXXIX
Cleo Rickman Fitch and Norma Wynick Goldman
This is the fifth volume publishing materials from the Italian City of Cosa. It is a thorough and precise compilation of the diverse clay lamps employed at Cosa, moldmade and wheelmade.
288 pages, ISBN 0-477-19518-1, cloth
(1994) $72.50
Cosa IV: The Houses; Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XXXVIII
Vincent J. Bruno and Russell T. Scott
This volume traces the development of the Roman house, which is counted as a major contribution to Roman architecture, from a small urban dwelling of the early colony to the more elaborate houses of the late second and early first centuries B.C.
230 pages, ISBN 0-271-10610-4, cloth
(1993) $54.50
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XL
Edited by Joseph Connors
236 pages, ISBN 0-472-10720-8, cloth
(1995) $52.50
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XLI
Edited by Malcolm Bell III and Caroline Bruzelius
236 pages, ISBN 0-472-10916-2, cloth
(1996) $52.50
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XLII
Edited by Malcolm Bell III and Caroline Bruzelius
254 pages, ISBN 1-879549-06-9, cloth
(1997) $52.50
Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome: Architectural Terracottas from the Regia, Volume XXX
By Susan B. Downey
Edited by Lawrence Richardson, Jr.
This volume presents the study of the architectural terracottas of the archaic period found in the excavations of the Regia in the Roman Forum carried out from 1964 to 1967 under the direction of the late Professor Frank E. Brown.
248 pages, ISBN 0-472-10720-8, cloth
(1995) $44.50
Cosa III: The Buildings of the Forum: Colony, Municipium, and Village; Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XXXVII
Frank E. Brown, Emeline Hill Richardson, and L. Richardson, Jr.
432 pages, ISBN 0-271-10609-0, cloth
(1993) $65.00
The Imperialism of Mid-Republican Rome
William V. Harris, Editor
Volume XXIX
196 pages, ISBN 0-472-08309-0, cloth
(1984) $24.95
Etruscan and Republican Rome Mouldings
Lucy T. Shoe
Volume XXVIII
116 pages, ISBN 0-472-08301-0, cloth
(1965) $21.95
Cambridge University Press
Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore
By Steven F. Ostrow
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of the Sistine and Pauline chapels. The historical meanings of the chapels are explored as a means to advance our under-standing of the ways in Which the post-Tridentine Church enlisted the visual arts to communicate and advance its mission.
385 pages, ISBN 0-521-47031-5, cloth
(1996) $59.95
Monuments of Papal Rome
Edited by Irving Lavin and Joseph Connors
This series, published in association with the American Academy in Rome, examines important works commissioned by the Popes during the Renaissance and Baroque periods Research is based primarily on archival and archaeological examination of the monuments.
406 pages, ISBN 0-521-47045-5, cloth
(1996) $90.00