Piranesi - Francesco e Giovanni Battista

etchings by Giovanni Battista and Francesco Piranesi, in the Rare Books Collection of the British School at Rome

Exhibition opening hours: 13 May-12 July, Tue.-Sun. from 10,00-13,00 and 17,00-20,00.

The LIBRARY and ARCHIVE

of the BRITISH SCHOOL AT  ROME

 are pleased to invite you to a special event

to present the new website

 BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

28 January 2010 at 18,00

 in the BSR Lecture Theatre

On this occasion there will also be a   

CUT-PRICE BOOK SALE: 

• duplicates of books, opuscula, journals, IGM maps
• BSR publications
• the Papers of the British School at Rome

FOLLOWED BY AN APERITIVO

ALL WELCOME!!

Library and Archive digital collections website

In July 2007, The Getty Foundation awarded a generous grant to the British School at Rome Archive to support the arrangement and description of part of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. As a result of this 2-year project, a website of the BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts. The majority of the digital images displayed on this website are represented by the photographs catalogued during the second Getty Foundation funded project.

This website is now available at the following address: www.bsrdigitalcollections.it

              P.P. Mackey at Ponte Catena

Immagini e Memoria

June-September 2009

To publicise the Getty Foundation funded project, the first of a series of Archive exhibitions entitled Immagini e memoria, illustrating Italy in the late nineteenth century through images from the historic photographic collections held in the Archive, was inaugurated in the BSR Gallery in January 2005: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey, 1890-1901. These 70 unpublished photographs had never been seen before and the exhibition was a resounding success with over 650 visitors and excellent press coverage.

Thanks to an exciting partnership that was established in 2008 between Sir John Soane’s Museum and the British School at Rome, the perfect venue has been found for the exhibition to be shown in London. The Museum has very generously hosted the exhibition for 3 months from June to September 2009. The interests of the two institutions overlap and complement each other remarkably, as do the contents of the Museum and BSR Library holdings, for example, the collection of volumes on the Grand Tour and the bound volumes of engravings of vedute of Rome from the 16th–19th centuries. It is hoped that this will be the first in a series of joint projects and the BSR will offer reciprocal hospitality to Sir John Soane’s Museum for future events in Rome.

The BSR has published a catalogue of these photographs of Rome taken between 1890-1901 by Father P.P. Mackey, with a scholarly essay by Robert Coates-Stephens, BSR Cary Fellow, to accompany the exhibition in London.