Annual Report 2008-9 - The British School at Rome

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D EVELOPMENT The principle effort of those working on the development programme this year has been ensuring that the joint British School at Rome–Sir John Soane’s Museum exhibition, Immagini e Memoria, Rome in the Photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890–1901, was properly funded and well organised. This has meant close co-operation between the Librarian and the Chair of Development. Last year’s promotional event at the John and Virginia Murray Centre was the starting-point for the creation of a supportive group of funders. These kind wellwishers helped with both the costs of bringing over an expanded version of the original Rome exhibition and also the creation of a scholarly and beautifully produced catalogue edited by the exhibition curator, Valerie Scott (BSR Librarian), with a fascinating introduction and catalogue entries by Robert Coates-Stephens, BSR Cary Fellow. Thus sufficient funds, that virtually covered the costs, were raised with the hope of a profit through the sales of the catalogue (to be re-invested in other Library and Archive initiatives). Generous individuals included Professor and Mrs Peter Wiseman and Mr Gifford Combs; and a particularly supportive trust was the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. The exhibition, held at Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields between 19 June and 12 September, was launched with an agreeable party for friends and supporters of both organisations. It provided an excellent Donors Donors to the BSR in 2008–9 include: Mrs Diana Baring; Mr John Beale; The British Council; The Clarke- Molyneux Trust; The Faculty of Classics, Cambridge; Mr Luca Cerizza; The John S. Cohen Foundation; Mr Gifford Combs; The Marc Fitch Fund; The Gladstone Memorial Trust; The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust; Mr Peter Johnson; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British 14 occasion for the BSR to connect with its UK friends and supporters. Shortly after this the Museum hosted a special evening event, linked to the exhibition, and generously encouraged the BSR to invite a select group of donors to a reception and a lecture about the wider context of the exhibition by Valerie Scott. The occasion was greatly enjoyed by guests of each institution, among which there was a not-altogether surprising overlap in interests. The BSR hopes that this will be the first of many collaborations with Sir John Soane’s Museum, both in London and in Rome. Through the year various institutional and other unrestricted personal donations have been received. Two of the latter were from relatives of former scholars from many decades ago. Their charming letters once again underscore the importance of maintaining links with alumni and friends of the BSR. Our thanks, as always, go to incredibly supportive staff both in Rome, particularly Elly Murkett and Alvise Di Giulio, and in London, where special thanks go to Dr Gill Clark, who was a staunch ally in promoting the Mackey exhibition. Jill Pellew Chair of Development Art; Mrs G.M. Muinzer; Mr Morton Neal; PARC: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali; Mr A.H.A. Osborn; The Craven Committee, Oxford; St John’s College, Oxford; The Society of Dilettanti; The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies; Mr Peter Spring; Studio Legale Dalla Vedova; Ms Vanessa Somers Vreeland.
H UMANITIES AWARDS Balsdon Fellow Michael Bury (University of Edinburgh) Divergent judgements: works of art in contention, Rome 1540–1610 Hugh Last Fellow Dr Stephen Heyworth (University of Oxford) A commentary on Ovid, Fasti 3 Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow Dr William Eisler (Musée Monetaire Cantonal, Lausanne) The medals of Martin Folkes: art, Newtonian science and Masonic sociability in the age of the Grand Tour A.D. Trendall Fellow Dr Lisa Beaven (La Trobe University) The market in Rome for antiquities and their illegal exportation in the second half of the seventeenth century Rome Fellows Dr Carrie Churnside (University of Birmingham) The seventeenth-century sacred cantata in the papal states Dr Emiliano Perra (University of Bristol) The Holocaust in Italian television Rome Scholars Dr Meaghan McEvoy (University of Oxford) The resurgence of Rome in the fifth century AD Dr Lucy Turner Voakes (European University Institute, Florence) The Risorgimento and English Liberal culture, 1850–1918 Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar Dr Marden Nichols (University of Cambridge) The Odyssey frieze, a Roman wall-painting of the first century BCE considered in a spatial and cultural context Macquarie University Gale Scholar Duncan Keenan-Jones (Macquarie University) The Aqua Augusta. Regional water supply in Roman and late antique Campania: an historical and archaeometrical study Rome Awardees Caillan Davenport (University of Oxford) New élites in Rome and Italy, AD 235–337 Dr Claire Holleran (King’s College London/University of Liverpool) Shopping in ancient Rome Elizabeth Munro (University of Oxford) Recycling the Roman villa: the use of architectural components as raw materials for small-scale production in the late Roman period Edward Payne (Courtauld Institute) Violence and corporality in the art of Jusepe de Ribera Tim Potter Memorial Awardee Alun Williams (Cardiff University) Colonization in the western Mediterranean: case-studies of Greek, Roman and Phoenician colonies in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia Melbourne Rome Scholar Mark Shepheard (University of Melbourne) Musicians and artists at the court of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in Rome, 1689–1740 Giles Worsley Travel Fellow Rebecca Madgin (Universities of Leicester/East London/Glasgow) The contemporary value of industrial architecture — the Ostiense Quarter Youth Music Foundation of Australia Scholar Suzanne Shakespeare Research Fellows Dr Patrizia Cavazzini The painter Agostino Tassi; the art market in Rome Dr Roberto Cobianchi Ceremonies for canonisation in Renaissance Rome Dr Elizabeth Fentress Roman archaeology Dr Inge Lyse Hansen Provincial identity and patronage in the Greek east Dr Andrew Hopkins Committenza architettonica fra Venezia e Roma nel Seicento Dr Clare Hornsby Roman topography studied through maps in the BSR Library Rare Books collection Dr Helen Langdon The painters Salvator Rosa and Claude Lorrain Dr Lori-Ann Touchette Ancient Roman art Dr Karin Wolfe The Venetian painter Francesco Trevisani 15
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