Poetry and ruins: an ancient villa in Renaissance Tivoli
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Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
Celebrated in antiquity as a place of studied leisure, Tibur (modern-day Tivoli) became known during the Renaissance for the spectacle of its ruined temples and villas. Birkbeck's Peter Fane-Saunders explores the contrasting cases of two sixteenth-century architects, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Pirro Ligorio, and what their analyses of sites in Tivoli tell us about Renaissance engagement with antique texts, poetry and architecture and about the workings of the Renaissance mind.
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This event is part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2017 - see the full programme here.