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Rome Prize Fellows and Projects
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Arts
Architecture
Lars Lerup
Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize
William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean, School of Architecture, Rice University
After Pantheon: Monuments, Phobias, Awe and their Proxies
The project begins at the Pantheon. Using it as a fulcrum for resuming a project on the "monument in the city" as explored in my book After the City, I wish to assume my role as “the wanderer," one who attempts, by roaming through the surrounding city, archival materials, and modern texts, to invent an expanded field that has been both erased by history—despite Agrippa’s claim in the inscription on the façade, we will never know if Hadrian was the architect or just the bauherr—and left out of my original text. In this expanded field using writing, drawing and design I will "write a book" beyond common conventions.
Kiel Moe
Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Northeastern University
The Thermodynamic Figuration of Rome
Rome provides prime examples of the material and energy systems that are the basis of my current design research, practice, and teaching. There are two, interrelated aspects of this research that would be central to my work in Rome: next-use and thermally active surfaces. The first of these preoccupations is evident in the recurrent use and durability of Rome’s building stock: a palimpsest of ecological resources and social uses. The second is evident in the canonical thermally active surface, the hypocaustum of the Roman baths and villas. These archaic modalities have directly informed my research on contemporary modes of integrated design and building production. My work will analyze the role of these two techniques fundamental to the evolution, use, and qualities of life of Rome and that will be fundamental to the evolution, use, and qualities of life of material and energy systems in the twenty-first century in architecture.
Design
Russell Maret
Rolland Rome Prize
Designer/Letterpress Printer/Publisher, Swan & Hoop, New York, NY
The Subterranean Antique Letter
I propose to document and analyze the epigraphic and painted lettering styles in the Roman catacombs. Historically, catacomb lettering has been overlooked as a classical stylistic tradition in favor of the more mannered architectural lettering of Imperial Rome, such as that on the base of Trajan’s Column. While the architectural lettering of ancient Rome has been exhaustively documented by lettering historians, the catacomb inscriptions have only been studied comprehensively from an archaeological perspective. This oversight has contributed to the misconception that classical lettering styles such as those found in the catacombs are not relevant to contemporary typography. My project seeks to reevaluate catacomb lettering as a stylistic tradition culminating in the publication of a monograph consisting of: 1) a comprehensive photographic record of catacomb inscriptions; 2) a structural analysis of variant catacomb lettering styles; and 3) an essay exploring the relationship of catacomb lettering to historical and contemporary type design.
Adrian Van Allen
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
Multimedia Specialist/Exhibit Developer, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Scientiae Historia Romae: An Interactive Map
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
Matthew Bronski
National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
Senior Staff I - Building Technology, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Waltham, MA
In the Footsteps of Vitruvius: Durability Lessons Learned from In-Situ Diagnostic Studies of Original Construction Details
In the course of my 14 years of practice in historic preservation, the work of the Roman architect/engineer/planner/master builder Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius), as set forth in his seminal text The Ten Books of Architecture, has provided me with a frequent touchstone for my own work. With a Rome Prize in Historic Preservation, I propose to follow in the footsteps of Vitruvius, utilizing his methodology of direct observation of existing buildings (the details, materials, and methods of their construction, and their current condition) to derive the lessons these buildings have to teach us regarding long-term durability and preservation.
Jon Calame
Booth Family Rome Prize
Partner & Operations Officer, Minerva Partners, Portland, ME
Prototypes for Divided Cities: The 16th c. Jewish Ghettos of Venice, Rome, Ferrara, Bologna, and Florence
The prosperity of cities has often relied on exclusion, and wall building was frequently inseparable from city building. In Europe, precedent for the divided city of the 20th century was the Jewish ghetto of 16th century -- epitomized by those in Venice, Rome, Ferrara, Bologna, and Florence. The proposed Rome Prize project is conceived in three parts:
1.) scholarly examination of the historic advantages derived from internal and external partitions in Italy cities,
2.) field-based investigation of the physical development of five historic Jewish ghettos in Italy,
3.) exploration of the ghetto prototype’s influence on existing urban segregation other citis, especially Rome with respect to its marginalized Roma community.
This proposal uses the historic built environment of five Italian cities as a document with which to interpret and assess public policy in the management of cities with respect to physical segregation of minority ethnic groups.
Landscape Architecture
Robert Hammond
Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Co-Founder & President, Friends of the Highline, New York, NY
Exploring the Tiber
I propose to spend six months in Rome exploring the Tiber riverfront. In many ways this will be a continuation of my work on the High Line in New York City over the past decade. The goal of this project is not to produce a concrete plan for the riverfront, but rather to spark greater creative activity, awareness and enthusiasm, under the light of which this largely forgotten urban space may begin to rediscover itself.
Literature
Peter Campion
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
Poet and Assistant Professor, Auburn University
El Dorado
The working title of Peter’s new collection is El Dorado. The poems are about life in the global age, about trying to make sense of the manifold world and of the deep, hardwired forces of desire and belief.
Eliza Griswold
John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Writer, The New America Foundation, New York, NY
Tenth Parallel
Eliza writes non-fiction and poetry. She is the author of Wideawake Field, a poetry collection. Her non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault-line between Christianity and Islam is forthcoming. Her reportage has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic. Eliza’s first collection of poems focused on the landscapes of war and disaster, through which she traveled as a reporter. The second book will represent a turning inward informed by the idea that there are not four, but five, cardinal directions: north, south, east, west, and the center, or the nadir, the space beneath our feet.
Musical Composition
Lisa Bielawa
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
Composer-in-Residence, Boston Modern Orchestra Project
New work for Brooklyn Rider String Quartet and Lisa Bielawa, composer-vocalist
In 2009-2010 I will be writing an extended work for string quartet and voice, for the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet and myself as vocalist. This project represents a continuation and deepening of my collaboration with these four remarkable musicians, who have performed and recorded my music in various guises, as soloists (most recently, violinist Colin Jacobsen recently premiered my Double Violin Concerto) and in their roles as leaders of the Knights Chamber Orchestra. The piece will have two sections, one with voice and one without, so that they can bring me along for some of their touring in the 2010-11 season, but will also be able to perform the work when I am not with them on the road. The work will be commissioned jointly by the Brooklyn Rider and Market Square Concerts in Harrisburg, PA, where the vocal section will be premiered in February 2010.
Don Byron
Samuel Barber Rome Prize
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Music
University at Albany, State University of New York
A chamber opera based on the novel and film, Gentleman’s Agreement
My project is a chamber opera based on the 1947 novel Gentleman’s Agreement, which is, at its root, an analysis of the relative social status of various white ethnics, and their relationship to ethnically identified Jews who were perhaps, at that time, not quite “white” yet. My version throws African Americans into the mix – through the experiences of an interracial couple whose relationship falls apart while one person repeatedly watches the movie Gentleman’s Agreement. The principal musical challenge will be to find ways of writing for singers who have roots in both classical music and the ethnic musics attached to each character's heritage. I am particularly looking forward to juxtaposing contrasting ethnic styles (in particular, techniques of vocal ornamentation) in a single aria or duet. While in Rome, I hope to connect with Italian musicians I know and present workshop concerts examining the ideas of the larger piece.
Visual Arts
Terry Adkins
Jesse Howard, Jr./Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
Professor, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
Flumen Orationis
I plan to investigate and recall the history African presence in Rome from Graeco-Roman antiquity to the Renaissance. I will respond to a first hand examination of the art and artifacts of this period that contain African imagery, readings of the African-Roman playwrights Publius Terentius Afer (c.190-158 BCE) and Macchius Titus Plautus (c.254-184 BCE), and a comparison of the emblematic legacies of canonized African Popes and Saints. This study will result in a Recital-a series of drawings, sculptures, video and performative gestures- that employ the mnemonic devices, techniques and principles of the phiosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), most notably works that employ geographical and architectural structures.
Abigail Child
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
Filmmaker and Professor, Film Animation, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
THE PURSUIT: scenes, created in the form of imaginary home movies, from the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley
I propose writing and shooting of a script for a feature film based on the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, created in the form of imaginary home movies: entitled THE PURSUIT. I am motivated by the modernity of the Shelleys, their concern for women, free love and labor, their choice to move away from family, class and cultural background into which they had been born. I think their story a haunting and powerful basis for a modern analysis of sexual mores and a deep look at class distinctions, particularly (even) on the stage of contemporary United States with its Puritanical background and disturbed (dis)continuities. Rome and Italy feature prominently in the Shelleys' lives and consciousness, and being there will enable me to both write and film the environment from the experimental and original point of view of the home movie.
Nancy Davenport
Abigail Cohen Rome Prize
Artist, New York, NY
Pasolini Extras
My proposed project is a series of large scale, digitally manipulated photographs, inspired by the early films of Pier Paulo Pasolini.The photographs would explore the specific Roman suburbs where Pasolini lived and worked. I will seek to include portraits of people who appeared as 'extras' in Pasolini's films (many have become poets and artists) and to have them star now in scenes which echo their original performance. I will seek to integrate memories of Pasolini's fiction with the facts of their lives. The images would be inspired by Pasolini's visual style, his use of light and 'poetic realism', but importantly, my works would also acknowledge the vast differences and transformations which have occurred since the postwar Rome of the 50's and 60's. My intention would be to register the complexity of the present and seek its dimensions in a beautiful and melancholy cinematic history.
Stephen Westfall
Jules Guerin/John Armstrong Chaloner Rome Prize
Artist, New York, NY
Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Painting Co-chair, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College
New Paintings in a New Old City
I intend to make abstract paintings in a developing response to Rome as a layered urban environment, from ancient Classicism to contemporary billboards, outdoor cinema, and graffitti. Painting is cumulatively a ruminative dialogue with its own history, a forceful visual and material address towards the present, and a speculation about its own future. My paintings are abstract distillations of painting's geometric elements, urban architecture and sign space, and painting's memory of its own historical trajectory. I want to transplant this semiotic alchemy to Rome, the most historically dense great European city and the essential destination for painters through the Baroque and Neo-Classical epochs. I'm fascinated by the potential spectacle of Rome's collision with modernity, which sends out both ephemeral and resonant recombinations of form and design. I expect my own painting process will be illuminated in this environment.
Humanities
Ancient Studies
Jonathan P. Conant
Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of San Diego
Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700
My project represents the first historical examination of Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria after the collapse there of Roman power in the early fifth century. Despite scholarly arguments and assumptions to the contrary, I argue that the idea of being Roman never really ceased to be fundamental among key elements of late antique and early medieval society in Africa, even after direct imperial control of the West had long since collapsed. This period saw the emergence of competing political, cultural, and religious definitions of Romanness; but no matter their preferred definition, one critical way that Africans sought to "stay Roman" was by maintaining their ties across the Mediterranean, above all with Italy. This throws into question how we understand the transition from antiquity to the middle ages in the Mediterranean in general, and challenges our understanding of when and how the idea of Christendom emerged.
Scott Craver
Emeline Hill Richardson/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)
McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
Patterns of Complexity: An Index and Analysis of Urban Property Investment at Pompei
Using evidence from the physical remains of the city as well as from excavation archives, scholarly publications, and ancient legal texts, the project, which comprises my doctoral dissertation, is the first to index, quantify, and analyze urban property investment at Pompeii on a city-wide scale. It is simultaneously investigating the related phenomenon of complexity, a term here used to characterize the increasing regularization and interrelatedness in the built environment of Pompeii. The central question under investigation is: Was urban property investment at Pompeii a side-lined, opportunistic endeavor bound-up with subordinate social relationships, or was it a primary, strategic economic concern, and if so, to whom?
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.
Susanna McFadden
Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art and Music, Fordham University
Articulating Power and Status in Late Antique Rome: A Study of Late Roman Pictorial Constellations
I am proposing an intensive survey of late Roman wall paintings and decorated environments in and around the city of Rome (second through fifth centuries CE), so as to produce a regionally cohesive monograph derived from my dissertation’s central case study on the Domus Faustae megalographia. This original project overall examined the decorative programs and historical contexts of three late antique non-Christian sites in Rome, Egypt and Jordan respectively. The complex viewing strategies employed in these sites allowed for the promulgation of political and social agendas. My monograph will now focus this study on the Italian peninsula, shifting the geographical scope of the project west and expanding the sociological frame of my research to include Christian as well as vernacular material.
Darian Totten
Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of Classics and the Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University
Scales of Connectivity in the Late Antique Landscape: Economic Networks in Southern Italy
I aim to advance the study of the Roman economy by exploring economic connections in the rural landscapes of southern Italy from the 2nd-6th centuries CE. Historical approaches to the Roman economy focus on the big-picture processes of a Mediterranean-wide system, while archaeological approaches focus on the small-scale. I bridge them by investigating how the interaction among local, regional, and pan-Mediterranean economies influenced and contributed to overall processes. Engaging critically with Horden and Purcell’s paradigm of connectivity, I develop an archaeological methodology to understand how people, places, and economies were connected in the past. Southern Italy was unique for this period, experiencing seeming prosperity when much of the Italian peninsula was in decline. From the perspective of three Roman provinces-Lucania, Apulia, and Campania-I study how the links between different scales of economic activity contributed to the unique circumstances of this region.
Lela Urquhart
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of Classics and the Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University
Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in the Western Mediterranean: Impact, Interactions, and Integrations.
My dissertation assesses the responses of indigenous societies in Sicily and Sardinia to Greek and Phoenician colonial religion in the eighth through fourth centuries BCE. Since the 1980s, scholars have generally downplayed Greek cultural influence on indigenous populations, reacting against traditional "Hellenization" models. This reaction has set up an intellectual dichtomy between postcolonial and Hellenization theories, creating an increasingly stagnant debate. I address these problems by conducting a rigorous comparative study of religious practices among Greek, Phoenician, and indigenous societies. I argue that while indigenous communities integrated Greek-style material culture and practices into their religious lives, they showed much less interest in Phoenician material culture and religion. I explain this contrast in terms of the greater social accessibility and more communal features of Greek polis religion, which were advantageous to native societies in a period of rapid change, and which enabled new levels of Mediterranean-wide, socio-political integration.
Medieval Studies
Aurelia D'Antonio
Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University
Throwing Stones at Friars: The Church of San Francesco in Piacenza
The city of Piacenza in northern Italy offers a remarkable example of the impact of an architectural project on the political, urban and economic fabric of a medieval city. The ambitious design of the church of San Francesco causes us to rethink the traditional history of mendicant architecture; its patronage complicates the relationship between church and state in the late Middle Ages. My dissertation will propose that the Franciscans and their church both reflected and stimulated changes in the economic structures of the proto-capitalist city. Taking into account contemporary documents, I will illuminate the building’s impact on the city’s institutions and individuals. As an historian of medieval architecture and urbanism, I will demonstrate how the Franciscan construction and bold architectural choices participated in the reordering of the political and urban topography of Piacenza, reconfiguring the city’s tenuous balance between religious and civic institutions, while creating a new civic center.
Annie Montgomery Labatt
Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)
History of Art, Yale University
In Search of the
Specific images and types in medieval Roman imagery express meanings that do not fit into the traditional academic divide between East and West. Some types - such as the Transfiguration, the Deesis, and the Anastasis - appear to stand out amidst Roman imagery as belonging to the so-called "Byzantine" tradition because these forms became notable parts of a canonized Eastern tradition at a later date. But in the eighth and ninth century these forms did not necessarily connote division or difference. Rather, these medieval images reveal inventiveness, experimentation, and hybridity. Some images in Rome called attention to "Greeks" as different, and some images belonged to a more generalizing Roman idiom. By studying the way specific examples of iconographical types functioned in specific Roman churches, this project will be an attempt to clarify what role the East did or did not play in the imagery of early medieval Rome.
Jason Moralee
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Associate Professor, Department of History, Illinois Wesleyan University
Rome's Holy Mountain: The Rise and Fall of the Capitoline Hill
This project investigates the veneration of holy mountains and high places in the Roman empire, focusing specifically on the most important of them: the Capitoline Hill in Rome. The hill was integrated into Roman society as its historical citadel, the location of its holiest temple, the destination of ritual processions, as well as the setting for many of the most important state ceremonies and individual rites of passage. By considering the rich body of literary accounts of the hill, the evidence of inscriptions and archaeology, and itineraries for visitors and pilgrims to the city, this study investigates not only the processes that led to the rise of the holy mountain, but also its material and conceptual decline in the middle ages.
Modern Italian Studies
Luca Caminati
Paul Mellon/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literature and the Department of Film & Media Studies, Colgate University
The Real Realist: Rossellini, Documentary and the Formation of Neorealist Cinema
I am applying to the NEH post-doctoral fellowship-Rome Prize in order to pursue research on a historical transitional moment of Italian cinema: the shift from fascist to post-war Neorealist cinema (1933-1952). In particular I plan to focus on the relationship between documentary and fiction in the late fascist era and in the early phases of Neorealism, and examine the role that documentary aesthetics played in the formation of a realist cinema focusing on Rossellini’s early works. While it is widely acknowledged that Neorealism shows strong documentary qualities, the exact nature of this relationship has never been fully explored. My project aims at establishing the importance of documentary genre and techniques for Neorealist cinema thus renegotiating this nexus fiction/non-fiction in the works of Roberto Rossellini in light of the larger body of archival findings documenting the cinematic culture of Italy of the 1930s-40s.
Eileen Ryan
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Department of History, Columbia University
Italian Reconquest of Libya and Relations with the Sanusiya 1922-1931
My project examines the history of Italian colonial policies in Cyrenaica and Tripolitania from the occupation of the coastal regions in 1911 until the establishment of effective control over the region in 1931. In particular, it considers why Italian colonial administrators abandoned a policy of negotiations with local religious leaders in the 1920s to pursue greater direct control of the region through increasingly violent methods culminating in the internment of one hundred thousand people in desert camps in 1931. My dissertation analyzes both the particularities of a fascist colonial administration and the relationship between political and religious authority in a region lacking a strong state structure.
Richard Wittman
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara
S. Paolo fuori le Mura (1823-1930): Architecture, Publicity, and the Invention of Tradition
I propose to research and write a book about the reconstruction of the Early Christian basilica of S. Paolo fuori le mura in Rome. Extending from the era of post-Napoleonic Papal conservatism, through that of Italian unification, all the way to the reconciliation of Church and state under Fascism, the meanings of this immense project were from the start deeply intertwined with contemporary politics. Focusing on public discourse about the church as represented in newspaper articles, architectural histories, engraved prints, popular culture, and official ceremonies, this study will read the neglected saga of S. Paolo as a suggestive chapter in the history of the genesis of modernity, raising new questions about the history of architectural historicism, the history of the modern Church and of modern Italy, and the genesis of the modern public sphere.
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.
Nick Wilding
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University
Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Republic of Knowledge
Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Republic of Knowledge offers new approaches to the scientific revolution by positioning it within an open and dynamic Mediterranean world, rather than the closed, autonomous Europe of most accounts. Within that space, it pays special attention to the role of anonymously and pseudonymously authored texts in making natural philosophical knowledge, by addressing early modern scientific print and scribal culture within larger textual economies of government, diplomacy and espionage. It casts new light on the strategies deployed by natural philosophers in the early modern world by analyzing, for the first time, the activities and identities of Gianfrancesco Sagredo, student, patron and friend of Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642). The book is under advance contract from The University of Chicago Press.
Residents
Leonard Barkan
American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (History of Art)
Professor of Comparative Literature
Director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
December - April
Mary Gibson, FAAR'03
American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence
Professor of History
John Jay College and the Graduate Center
City University of New York
New York, New York
January - April
Stephen Greenblatt
American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (Literature)
Professor of the Humanities
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September - January
Calvin Tsao, FAIA
William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence
Principal, Tsao & McKown Architects
President of The Architectural League of New York
New York, New York
January - February
Ronald G. Witt, FAAR'97
Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence (Medieval Studies)
Professor Emeritus of History
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
October - November
Board of Trustees
Laurie Anderson, RAAR'06
Mercedes T. Bass
Robert Beaser, FAAR'78
Drew Beattie, FAAR'95*
Boris Biancheri
Suzanne Deal Booth
Mary Schmidt Campbell
Verdella Caracciolo di Forino
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR'84*
David M. Childs, RAAR'04
Chuck Close, RAAR'96
Daniel G. Cohen
Michael Conforti, FAAR'76 RAAR'08
Carmela Vircillo Franklin, FAAR'85, RAAR'02*
Bernard D. Frischer, FAAR'76, RAAR'97
Elaine K. Gazda
Barbara Goldsmith
Anthony Grafton, RAAR'04
Michael Graves, FAAR'62, RAAR'79
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
Richard Meier, RAAR'74
Roberto A. Mignone
Susan Nitze
Nancy M. O'Boyle
John A. Pinto, FAAR'75, RAAR'06
Jessie H. Price
Michael C.J. Putnam, FAAR'64, RAAR'70
Michael Rock, FAAR'00
C. Brian Rose, FAAR'92
John M. Shapiro
Robert B. Silvers
Laurie Simmons, RAAR'05
Michael I. Sovern
Mark Strand, RAAR'83
Steven Stucky, RAAR'06
Billie Tsien, RAAR'00
Fred Wilson
FAAR = Fellow of the American Academy in Rome
RAAR = Resident of the American Academy in Rome
*Ex-officio
Affiliated Fellows
Chiara Bernazzani
AAR/ Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Echange Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Pisa, Italy
September - January
Emanuele Casale
Italian Fellow in the Arts
Composer
Catania, Italy
September - January
Krzysztof Cezary Domzalski
Mellon East-Central European Visiting Scholar
Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology
Polska Akademia Nauk
Warsaw, Poland
December - March
Linda Duke
Indianapolis Museum of Art Affiliated Fellow
Director of Education & Community Affairs
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, Indiana
September - October
Jolanta Dygul
Mellon East-Central European Visiting Scholar
Lecturer, Italian Studies
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Warsaw, Poland
December - March
Sandra M. Gilbert
Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic
Professor of English Emerita
University of California
Davis, California
January - February
Claudia Gould
William Penn Foundation Affiliated Fellow
The Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director
Institute of Contemporary Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November - January
Meena Hasan
Terna Foundation Affiliated Fellow
Visual Artist
New York, New York
January - March
Bülent Işler
Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ Getty Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Basin Research Exchange Fellow
Research Assistant/Art Historian
Hacettepe Universitesi
Ankara, Turkey
November - December
Ivana Kvetánová
Mellon East-Central European Visiting Scholar
Ph.D. Candidate in Ancient History
Trnavská univerzita v Trnave
Trnava, Slovak Republic
October - December
Daniel Mendelsohn
Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic
Writer and Critic
New York, New York
February - March
Asher E. Miller
Metropolitan Museum of Art Visiting Curator
Research Associate
Department of 19th Century, Modern & Contemporary Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
February - February
D. Jeffrey Mims
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America Affiliated Fellow
Painter
Mims Studios
Southern Pines, North Carolina
September - December
Elena Cristina Napolitano
Multi-Country Research Fellowship of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
September - October
Luca Nostri
Italian Fellow in the Arts
Photographer
Lugo, Italy
January - April
Matthew Notarian
AAR/ Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Echange Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Classics, University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
October - July
Roma Pas
Royal Dutch Institute Affiliated Fellow
Visual Artist
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September - January
Alessandro Poggio
AAR/ Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Echange Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Pisa, Italy
January - June
Visiting Artists and Scholars
February 2010
ELIZABETH A. R. BROWN & RALPH S. BROWN, JR.
Professor of History Emerita
The City University of New York
New York, New York
1 February – 1 March
CARLOTTA COCCOLI
Architect and Preservationist of Cultural Heritage
Brescia, Italy
1 February – 15 February
FRANCES J. MUECKE
Senior Lecturer
Classics and Ancient History Department
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
1 February – 15 March
BARRY SVIGALS, FAIA
Managing Partner
Svigals + Parters
New Haven, Connecticut
& DIANE SVIGALS
Gallery Director
Creative Arts Workshop
New Haven, Connecticut
1 February – 15 March
NANCY A. AUSTIN
Austin Alchemy Design
Newport, Rhode Island
8 February – 1 March
WENDY DESCHENE
Visual Artist
Assistant Professor of Art
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
& JEFF SCHMUKI
Visual Artist
Auburn, Alabama
8 February – 1 March
ANTON G. JANSEN
Assistant Professor
Classics/Great Books & Liberal Studies
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
& CAROL U. MERRIAM
Associate Professor
Department of Classics
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
8 February – 15 March
HENRY TZU NG
Executive Vice President
World Monuments Fund
New York, New York
9 February – 16 February
FRANCIS X. BLOUIN, Jr. & JOY BLOUIN
Professor of History
Director, Bentley Historical Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
15 February – 8 March
KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecturer
Professor of Latin
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
15 February – 27 February
KARL P. DONFRIED & KATHARINE E. DONFRIED
Professor Emeritus of Religion and Biblical Literature
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts
15 February – 1 March
MARILYN B. SKINNER
Professor of Classics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
22 February – 22 March
GORDON POWELL FAAR’88 & LINDA C. POWELL
Visual Artist
River Forest, Illinois
18 January – 15 February
M. MICHELE MULCHAHEY, FAAR’03
Professor of Medieval History
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Toronto, Ontario
25 January – 15 February
DIANA ROBIN, FAAR’88
Resident Scholar
Newberry Library
Chicago, Illinois
25 January – 2 February
ALLISON A. COOPER
Assistant Professor of Italian
Colby College
Waterville, Maine
27 January – 29 March
JO ANNA ISAAK & DANIEL O’CONNELL
Chair in Art History and Music
Fordham University
Bronx, New York
28 December – 8 February
STEPHEN GREENBLATT, RAAR’10
Professor of the Humanities
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
& RAMIE TARGOFF
Professor of English and American Literature
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts
14 September – 17 May
November - November
Juries
2008-2009 Juries
Ancient Studies
Cynthia Damon
Professor of Classical Studies
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Andrew M. Riggsby
Professor of Classics & of Art and Art History
University of Texas, Austin, TX
C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92 (Jury Chair)
James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies
Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Roger B. Ulrich, FAAR'82
Professor of Classics
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Katherine Welch, FAAR'94
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Design
Laurie Anderson, RAAR'06
Artist
New York, NY
James Corner (Jury Chair)
Landscape Architecture Chair
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Principal
Field Operations, New York, NY
Winka Dubbeldam
Principal
Archi-Tectonics, New York, NY
Professor of Practice/Director of Post-Professional Program, Department of Architecture
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Qingyun Ma
Dean, School of Architecture
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Principal
MADA s.p.a.m., Shanghai
Peter Walker, RAAR'92, FASLA
Principal
PWP Landscape Architecture, Berkeley, CA
Lorraine Wild
Faculty
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA,
Principal
Green Dragon Office, Los Angeles, CA
Historic Preservation and Conservation
Charles L. Granquist (Jury Chair)
Executive Director
Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, NY
Jorge L. Hernandez
Principal
Jorge L. Hernandez Architect, Coral Gables, FL
Wendy Nicholas
Director, Northeast Office
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Boston, MA
Literature
Anthony Appiah
Novelist
Mary Gordon
Novelist and nonfiction writer
Allan Gurganus (Jury Chair)
Novelist
A. R. Gurney
Playwright
Philip Levine
Poet
Rosanna Warren, RAAR'01
Poet
Edmund White
Novelist
Joy Williams
Novelist
Medieval Studies
Thomas Dale
Chair and Professor of Art History
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Rachel Jacoff (Jury Chair)
Carlson Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
F. Thomas Luongo, FAAR'06
Associate Professor of History/Associate
Dean for Honors
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Charles B. McClendon
Sidney and Ellen Wien Professor in the History of Art
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Dorothy H. Verkerk
Associate Professor of Art History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Modern Italian Studies
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Chair, Department of Italian Studies/Professor of Italian Studies and History
New York University, New York, NY
Barry Bergdoll
The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture & Design
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
Jane Kramer
European Correspondent
The New Yorker, New York, NY
Charles S. Maier (Jury Chair)
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Massimo Riva
Professor and Chair, Italian Studies
Brown University, Providence, RI
Musical Composition
Susan Botti, FAAR'06
Composer/Performer
Red Hook, NY
Composition Faculty
Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
Donald Crockett (Jury Chair)
Professor of Composition
University of Southern California
Sebastian Currier, FAAR'94
Composer
New York, NY
Anthony Davis
Composer/Professor
University of California, San Diego, CA
David Rakowski, FAAR'96
Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition
Brandeis University, Maynard, MA
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Shane Butler, FAAR'99
Associate Professor of Classics
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Anthony Newcomb
Gladyce Arata Terrill Chair of Music and Italian Studies Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley, CA
William Stenhouse
Associate Professor of History
Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Walter Stephens (Jury Chair)
Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Visual Arts
Nayland Blake
Artist
New York, NY
Chair, Masters Program in Advanced Photographic Studies
International Center for Photography/Bard College, New York, NY
Petah Coyne
Artist
New York, NY
Kathy Goncharov
Director
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Anthony Hernandez, FAAR'99
Artist
Los Angeles, CA
David Reed
Artist
New York, NY
Fred Wilson (Jury Chair)
Artist
New York, NY
Bruce Yonemoto
Artist
Los Angeles, CA
Department Chair and Professor of Studio Art
University of California, Irvine, CA
Staff
New York
Barbara Alton
Office of the President/Executive Assistant
Anibal Carrion
Accountant
Adele Chatfield-Taylor
President
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
Asya Reznikov
Program Assistant
Curt B. Sharp
Vice President for Finance and Administration
Rome
Carmela Vircillo Franklin
Director
Administration
Gianpaolo Battaglia
Executive Secretary
Tina Cancemi
Assistant for External Affairs
Inga Clausing
Campaign Associate
Luigi de Marco
Superintendent of Facilities
R. William Franklin
Associate Director for External Affairs
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
Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies
Martin Brody
Andrew Heiskell Arts Director
Roberto Caracciolo
Arts Liaison
Anne Coulson
Senior Programs Associate
Lexi Eberspacher
Programs Associate
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
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
Rainer Tullner
Substitute Gatekeeper
Luca Zamponi
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
Brian Bligh
Visiting Cook
Christopher Boswell
Sous Chef
Zachary Chambers
Visiting Cook
Domenico Cortese
Cook
Elisa Diana
Waitress
Niki Ford
Visiting Cook
Allesandro Lima
Waiter
Mirella Misenti
Gabriel Soare
Waiter
Mona Talbott
Executive Chef
Tsige Tekka
Dishwasher
Tewolde Woldekidan
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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Job Opportunities
Andrew Heiskell Arts Directorship
The American Academy in Rome invites qualified individuals to apply for the position of Andrew Heiskell Arts Director. The candidate selected for this position will continue to shape and implement the Academy’s broad/long-term vision for the arts and work to create an environment that fosters the arts and artists, and the collaborative community at the Academy.
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Classical Summer School Directorship
The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the position of Director of its six-week Classical Summer School, beginning in summer 2011, for a term of three years. The Academy's Classical Summer School is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the growth and development of the ancient city of Rome and its immediate environs through a careful study of material remains and literary sources.
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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 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
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 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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Villa Aurelia
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.View Website
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To contact Villa Aurelia for private events, please use this form.
Villa Aurelia Garden Tours
To contact the American Academy for private tours of the Villa Aurelia gardens, please use this form.
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
- American Academy in Rome
- University of Michigan Press
- Cambridge University Press
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