Santa Maria Antiqua: “The
Sistine Chapel of the 8th Century” in Context
An International Conference to be held in the
Sainsbury Lecture Theatre at the British School at Rome on December 4-6, 2013
to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the death of Gordon McNeil
Rushforth, first Director of the School
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Wednesday 4
December
9.00-9.20
Session One:
Introductions and Welcome
Christopher
Smith:
Director of the British School at Rome
Mariarosaria
Barbera: Soprintendente, Soprintendenza
Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma
Lisa
Ackerman: Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, World
Monuments Fund
9.20-10.45
Session Two:
Gordon Rushforth: Commemoration of his life and work
Chair:
Christopher Smith
9.20 Peter
Wiseman: Gordon McNeil Rushforth. The First Director of the British School
at Rome and Santa Maria Antiqua (20
min)
9.40 John
Osborne: Rushforth and the Text of Magister Gregorius’ Narracio de mirabilibus urbis Romae (20 min)
10.00 Andrea
Paribeni:
Con Boni nel Foro? Le relazioni tra Gordon Rushforth e Giacomo Boni dalle carte
dell'Archivio Boni-Tea (15 min)
10.15 Giovanni
Gasbarri: Wladimir de Grüneisen and the study of Santa Maria Antiqua in its
multi-cultural context (15 min)
10.30 Eileen
Rubery: The Church of Santa Maria Antiqua: Researching with Rushforth’s
paper (15 min)
10.45-11.15
COFFEE
11.15-1.20
Session Three:
The Santa Maria Antiqua complex and its Links with the Palatine
Chair: Andrea Augenti
11.15 Henry Hurst:
The Basilica and Diaconia of Santa Maria Antiqua (30 min)
11.45 David
Knipp: Richard Delbrück and the Reconstruction of a ‘Ceremonial Route’ in
Domitian’s Palace Vestibule (25 min)
12.10 Kaelin
Jewell: A Chalke in Rome?
Byzantine Authority and the Palatine Hill (20 min)
12.30 Robert
Coates-Stephens: “Oratory of the
Forty Martyrs” (25 min)
12.55
DISCUSSION
(25 min)
1.20-2.15:
LUNCH
1.00-6.00:
(To be Confirmed) Display of relevant books from various publishing houses in
the Foyer
2.15-4.00
Session
Four: Understanding and Conserving Santa Maria Antiqua (1984-2013)
Chair: Maria Andaloro/ Giuseppe
Morganti
2.15 Giuseppe
Morganti: “Per meglio provvedere alla conservazione dei dipinti”: Santa
Maria Antiqua 1984-2013 (30 min)
2.45 Ernesto
Monaco: Misurare Santa Maria Antiqua da Petrignani ad oggi (25 min)
3.10 Werner
Schmid: Diario di un lungo restauro (2000-2013) (25 min)
3.35 Alia Englen: Dialogando coi restauratori (25 min)
4.00-4. 30: TEA
4.30-6.30
Chair: Giuseppe Morganti/ Maria Andaloro
4.30 Maria Andaloro: Riscoprire le pitture di
Santa Maria Antiqua dai ponteggi (30 min)
5.00 Giulia Bordi: L’abside
e i suoi strati (30 min)
5.30 Andaloro, Bordi, Viscontini, Amato, Pelosi,
Pogliani, Schmid, Valentini: Occhi puntati sui palinsesti di Santa Maria
Antiqua (30 min)
6.00 DISCUSSION
(30 min)
6 30: ?Book Launch:
‘Old S Peter’s Conference’
8.00:
Conference Dinner (for Speakers, Chairs of Sessions, those providing Posters
and invited guests only)
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Thursday 5
December
9.30-12.00
Visit
to Santa Maria Antiqua and the Oratory of the 40 Martyrs
(NOTE: To go on the visit it is
essential that Form One (Registration
Form) is completed and indicates a wish to go on the visit. Places will be allocated
in order of forms received. All those who have registered by June 10, 2013 will
have places reserved on this visit. Depending on the final numbers attending
the conference, it may be necessary for some of those registering after that
date to visit on the morning of Saturday 7 December.)
Three groups are planned
starting at 9.30, 10.00 and 10.30 and finishing about one hour later so that
the last group will finish by 11.30, giving time to return to the British
School for lunch and the Poster Session.
12.00-2.00:
Poster Session in the Foyer outside the Lecture Theatre
12.45-1.45
LUNCH at British School at Rome in the Foyer outside the Lecture Theatre
1.45-3.30
Session
Five: Santa Maria Antiqua, the Lateran Synod and other Church Councils
Chair: Eileen
Rubery
Session 5A:
Events surrounding the Lateran Synod
1.45 Rosamond
McKitterick: The Seventh- and early
Eighth-century Sections of the Liber pontificalis
(20 min)
2.05 Richard
Price: The Frescoes in Santa Maria Antiqua and the Lateran Synod of 649 (30
min)
2.35 Catherine
Cubitt: The Lateran Synod of 649 and Santa Maria Antiqua: Ritual Action and
its audience (30 min)
3.05 DISCUSSION
(25 min)
3.30-4.00 TEA
4.00-5.45:
Session 5B: Events after the Lateran Synod
4.00 Marek
Jankowiak: Rome at the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681): an Unexpected Victory
(20 min)
4.20 Manuela Gianandrea: Il dipinto murale di Santa Sabina all’Aventino e il
Concilio del 680: implicazioni teologiche di una rara iconografia (20 min)
4.40 Richard
Pollard: Men of Letters in 7th century Rome: an exercise in literary archaeology (20 min)
5. 00 Johannes
Börjesson: The cult of Augustine in the Byzantine Church of the First
Millennium (15 min)
5.15 DISCUSSION: (30 min)
5 45: Transfer to the Villa Aurelia for the lecture by Peter
Brown in the American Academy of Rome ‘New Work in the Humanities Series’:
6 30: Peter Brown - Constantine, Eusebius of
Caesarea and the Future of Christianity
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Friday 6
December
9.00-10.50
Session
Six: The Cult of Saints
Chair: David
Knipp
9.00 Eileen
Rubery: From Alexandria to Rome: The
cult of the anargyri saints Abbacyrus and John in Santa Maria Antiqua and
elsewhere in Rome in the 7th and 8th centuries (30 min)
9.30 Philip
Booth: Eastern monks and eastern
cults in seventh-century Rome (30 min)
10.00 Arkadii
Avdokhin: Forging identities, promoting Orthodoxies - Lateran Synod Texts
in the Sanctuary Frescoes of Santa Maria Antiqua and their Byzantine context
(20 min)
10.20 DISCUSSION
(30 min to include reference to
·
Alexandra Vukovich: (Poster) The Genesis of
Eastern Monastic Themes at the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua
10.50-11.20 COFFEE
11.20-1.00
Session
Seven: Santa Maria Antiqua: Images of worship in the Sanctuary
Chair: Valentino
Pace
11.20 Per
Olav Folgerø: Expression of Dogma:
Text and Imagery in the Triumphal Arch Decoration in the Sanctuary of S.
Maria Antiqua in Rome (705-707 A.D.) (30 min)
11.50 Ann van
Dijk: Visual Diplomacy on the Apsidal Arch of Santa Maria Antiqua (20 min)
12.10 Maria
Lidova: The Power of Maria Regina: Imperial Background and Theological
connotations of the Early Byzantine Image (20 min)
12.30 DISCUSSION
(30 min)
1.00-2.00
LUNCH
2.00-3.45
Session
Eight: Santa Maria Antiqua: Patronage and Theology
2.00 Beat
Brenk: Santa Maria Antiqua: Patronage and Theology (30 min)
2.30 Marios
Costambeys: Liturgy and Patronage at Santa Maria Antiqua in the Eighth
century (20 min)
2.50 Clemens
Gantner: The Pontificate of Zacharias (20 mins)
3.10 DISCUSSION
(35 min) Posters relevant to this session are:
·
Adam Bollók:The Jewels of
Theodotus’ Daughter between Rome and Byzantium
·
Maria Grafova: The Row of Saints in the Left Aisle
of Santa Maria Antiqua as Historical Evidence of the Iconoclast Era at Rome
3.45-4.15 TEA
4.15-5.30
Session
Nine: Final Discussion: Santa Maria Antiqua in Context and directions for
future research
Chair: John
Osborne
Discussion will
open around four questions:
·
What
was Santa Maria Antiqua’s original function?
·
What
was the role played by the Greek monks?
·
How
did the church’s function change over the years?
·
Where
do we go from here: new avenues of research?
5.30 Formal Close of Conference:
Christopher Smith
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Some additional visits may be arranged
for Saturday 7 December:
- Depending on the numbers registered for the
conference, additional visits to Santa
Maria Antiqua may be organised for this morning.
- S
Sabina: A visit to S Sabina to look at the fresco in the narthex may be arranged.
- A visit to the church of S Passera, the church that held the relics of SS Abbacyrus
and John and that is situated in
the Portuense area near S Paul’s outside the Walls across the Tiber, may
be arranged.
For
updated details, including information
on Hotels near to the British School at Rome visit the Conference web-site
at http://www.bsr.ac.uk/santa-maria-antiqua-conference
