Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome
Practicum: Mining Library Treasures

Practicum: Mining Library Treasures

13 Settembre 2022

Hidden in the basement of the KNIR is a treasure waiting to be explored: a collection of over 500 rare books, mostly from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries and covering a wide array of topics related mainly to Italy and Rome. In this KNIR-practicum, an...
Seminar: Collecting the World in Rome

Seminar: Collecting the World in Rome

21 Giugno 2022

Rome is home to almost one hundred museums and countless collections from the four corners of the worlds. How did these collections of ethnographical, natural and archaeological objects come about and what do they reveal about Rome’s and Italy’s engagement with the...
Course: Raphael’s Antiquity

Course: Raphael’s Antiquity

23 Maggio 2022

Five-hundred years ago, on Good Friday, April 6th 1520, the painter Raphael died in Rome after a brief illness, exactly 37 years after his birth, also on Good Friday, in Urbino. Even though ‘but’ an artist, at his death he was a prominent member of a network that was...
International Summer School: Shakespeare’s Rome (SRISS)

International Summer School: Shakespeare’s Rome (SRISS)

14 Aprile 2022

Within the Shakespearean corpus the image of ancient Rome works as the emblem of the classical past, a goldmine of foundational myths and the model of an authoritative culture early modern England felt compelled to look to. To Ancient Rome Shakespeare devoted five...