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From the Palatine to Pirro Ligorio

'From the Palatine to Pirro Ligorio'

  • Date05 January 2024

RHUL Classics are happy to share that Amanda Claridge's memorial volume was published on the 21st December and is now available.

'From the Palatine to Pirro Ligorio: Architectural, sculptural and antiquarian studies in memory of Amanda Claridge (1949-2022)’ was edited by Glynn J. C. Davis, Janet DeLaine, Zena Kamash (RHUL Classics), and Charlotte R. Potts. The memorial volume contains a large number of contributions, including a co-authored article by Jari Pakkanen and Amanda Claridge, 'Mapping the sand dunes and modelling Rome’s maritime facade at Castelorziano’.

Contents

Part 1. Architecture and sculpture of Latium and Rome

Stephen Smith - Mouldings in early religious architecture in Latium and the construction of identity

Eugenio La Rocca - The Round Temple in the Forum Boarium: some notes

Robert Coates-Stephens - The Colossus of Nero and the Pantheon in the Chronicle tradition

Matthias Bruno - Su un fusto di colonna intarsiato in bigio africanato dalla Fossa Traiana (Ostia)

Patrizio Pensabene - Architectural decoration in the Roman provinces: notes on local traditions and their relationship with ‘official’ art

The Temple of Apollo Palatinus

A. Janet DeLaine - The temple of Apollo: an unfinished project

B. Martin Goalen - Reconstructing the Temple of Palatine Apollo

C. Stephen Kay and Elena Pomar - Geophysical survey of the Temple of Palatine Apollo

Paolo Liverani - The Basilica Apostolorum: success and failure of the early Christian ambulatory basilica

Part 2. Castelporziano and the Vicus Augustanus Laurentinus

Nicholas Purcell - The archetype of the imperial estate? Augustus and the Ager Laurens

Janet DeLaine - The supply of brick and tile to the Vicus Augustanus Laurentinus and the surrounding villas on the Laurentine shore

Jari Pakkanen and Amanda Claridge - Mapping the sand dunes and modelling Rome’s maritime facade at Castelorziano

Part 3. Rome and the antiquarians

Ian Campbell - Pirro Ligorio's Paradosse and the location of the Forum

Blair Fowlkes Childs - Jupiter Dolichenus and religious change in Rome in the late 1st c. A.D.: a re-evaluation of CIL VI 422* and Pirro Ligorio’s reputation as a forger

Cecile Evers and Giovan Battista Fidanza - The Barberini Bronze of Septimius Severus: the Pope, his antiquarian, the artists and the engineer

Elizabeth Bartman - Last Laugh: Wallace’s ‘Laughing Faun’ revisited

Susan Walker - Wilshere Avenue: from Hertfordshire to Rome in the later 19th century

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