American Academy in Rome - Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome

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Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome - John A. Pinto

14, 16, 18 March
6pm - Lectures
Villa Aurelia

As they had during the Renaissance, ruins in the eighteenth century continued to serve as places of exchange between antiquity and modern times and between one architect and another. Rome functioned as a cultural entrepôt, drawing to it architects of the caliber of Filippo Juvarra, Robert Adam, Charles-Louis Clerisseau, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Through their collaboration, on-site exchanges, publications, and polemics, architects contributed notably to fashioning a more critical and sophisticated view of the material heritage of classical antiquity, one that we associate with the Enlightenment and the origins of modern archaeology.
In his Jerome Lectures, John Pinto, FAAR '75, the Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University, will examine the refractory nature of this architectural lens and the critical role played by Rome in providing both focus and stimulus for the framing of a more expansive vision of classical antiquity.

14 March The Perspective of Janus

16 March Le 'rovine parlanti' di Giovanni Battista Piranesi (in Italian)

18 March A Wider Prospect: Expanding the Repertoire of Classicism

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