Minor Program Rome-Florence

Minor Program Rome-Florence

Rome and Florence are of paramount importance to those working in the humanities, since most of its disciplines originate in late medieval or early modern Italy, and even postmodernism has some of its most significant roots in Italian intellectual debates. Therefore,...
Seminar: Raphael’s Antiquity

Seminar: Raphael’s Antiquity

Classical Receptions and the Creation of Classics NKV/OIKOS/KNIR seminar for (R)MA and PhD students 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,...
Seminar: Constantijn en Rome

Seminar: Constantijn en Rome

Met de slag bij de Milvische Brug in 312 n.C. versloeg Constantijn niet alleen zijn directe concurrent Maxentius, maar verwierf hij ook de macht in wat nog steeds de hoofdstad van het Romeinse Rijk was. In de jaren erna zou Constantijn alleenheerser van het gehele...