Roland Mayer - The Ruins of Rome

Cambridge Architectural History Seminars

Roland Mayer is an emeritus professor of Classics in King’s College London.

Queens' College, Old Hall

<p>The ruins of Rome have rightly been characterised as ‘prototypical’. Their preservation and conservation are aspects of that prototypical character, because they were the first ruins anywhere to be accorded official protection, and subsequent conservation. Conservation of the ruins presented a challenge, since there was no model to be followed. In the event, the early conservators, such as Raffaele Stern and Luigi Valadier had to devise novel methods of conservation, including some rebuilding. These methods were then adopted, perhaps unconsciously, by later conservation teams, such as the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB). This lecture will illustrate the course of ruin preservation and conservation in Rome.</p><p>Roland Mayer is an emeritus professor of Classics in King’s College London. His research activity has generally taken the form of commentaries on classical Latin authors (Horace, Seneca, Lucan, and Tacitus). He also has an interest in reception studies, particularly of Seneca and Tacitus. His enthusiasm for the ruins of ancient Rome was fired in him as a boy, and developed along with his academic career. He is delighted to have survived long enough to investigate their ‘reception’ in greater detail.</p>

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