
Artist Talks & Lectures · Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Rushforth Lecture: Converging Romeward – British Visitors to Mediaeval Rome
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Julian Gardner, emeritus professor of art history at Warwick, on the British travellers who came to Rome in the 13th and 14th centuries to study its ruins and statues, watch the popes, buy antiquities or, occasionally, be tortured, and on how Rome may have shaped the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey. A hybrid event at the British School at Rome (Via Antonio Gramsci 61, near Villa Borghese) and on Zoom. The venue doesn't publish a price on this listing; registration in advance is requested.
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