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Marta Zlotnick
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Dumbarton Oaks
A Roman Holiday at Dumbarton Oaks
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Dumbarton Oaks has an area of studies and an art collection for
Byzantine rather than Roman, but the two cultures were intimately
related. Constantinople was sometimes styled the New Rome, and the
Byzantines were often called Romans by their neighbors.
Spring is the season for a Roman holiday. Beatrix Farrand, who designed
much of the famous gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, incorporated a Roman touch
in the form of an amphitheater. In a spring spirit, Dumbarton Oaks is
pleased to offer visitors something more fleeting: one afternoon in
which to hear about Rome.
Our mini-symposium will comprise two talks, both illustrated. One, by
Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin at Harvard University, will be on
Orchestrated Violence: The Role of Music in the Roman Amphitheatre.
Professor Coleman, beyond having produced invaluable commentaries on
Statius and Martial, has lectured and written widely on Roman spectacle,
particularly in amphitheaters and arenas. Her presentation will include
a musical illustration.
The other talk, by Ruth Bielfeldt, Assistant Professor of History of Art
and Architecture at Harvard and author of a recent book on Orestes on
Roman sarcophagi, will be entitled Blinks of Light Rays of Perception:
Roman Lamps as Agents of Light and Life. Dumbarton Oaks, which published
recently a book on Lighting in Early Byzantium, will have a temporary
exhibition to show how brightly the lamp of scholarship burns in
Georgetown.
PROGRAM
12:00 Garden Tour: Lover's Lane Pool / Museum Galleries Open
1:30 Introduction by Dumbarton Oaks Director, Jan Ziolkowski
1:45 Ruth Bielfeldt, Assistant Professor of History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University, "Blinks of Light, Rays of Perception:
Roman Lamps as Agents of Light and Life"
2:45 Coffee Break
3:15 Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin at Harvard University,
"Orchestrated Violence: The Role of Music in the Roman Amphitheatre"
4:15 Wine and Cheese Reception
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Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
www.doaks.org
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