Second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.
At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.
On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.
Next meeting:
Friday 23 February
THEATRES AND POLITICAL POWER: THE SPOLETO CASE
Giulia Rocco – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società
The conference will focus on the furnishing of the Roman theatre of Spoleto, in particular during the Augustan period.
The early imperial age, in fact, marks a profound transformation in the characteristics and function of the furnishing and structure of the scene, no longer designed only as a background for theatrical performances.
The theatre, where the whole community gathered, became the privileged place of exhibition of cycles of sculptures dedicated to the princeps and his family, of which numerous examples are known, all of which date from the last years of the first century BC.
At the same time, the phenomenon of portrait-statues of private individuals, magistrates or members of the local aristocracy, associated with those of the princeps and his family, was becoming very common; these were often people who had contributed not only to the construction or decoration of the building, but also to initiatives for the benefit of citizens.
