Hosted by the ICAA New England Chapter in partnership with the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums and the Boston Athenaeum
Join architectural historian Nicola Camerlenghi for an engaging analysis of a treasured antiquity. The church that rose over the burial place of Saint Paul the Apostle was one of Rome’s oldest, largest, and most venerated. Since being ravaged by fire in 1823, the building's absence has challenged scholars and architects wishing to study its history. Recent digital technologies permit us to assemble archaeological evidence, drawings, paintings, and written accounts into a virtual reconstruction—effectively bringing the building back to life.
A native of Italy and Switzerland, Prof. Nicola Camerlenghi received architectural history degrees from Yale, MIT, and Princeton. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Dartmouth College, where he specializes in the early Christian and medieval architecture of Rome. Nick’s first book, St. Paul’s Outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica from Antiquity to the Modern Era, was published in 2018. He is a lead researcher of the “Mapping Rome” research group and has been a recipient of grants from Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation and the Kress Foundation, among others.
Hosted in partnership with the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums and the Boston Athenaeum.
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