From Itineraria to Instagram: Approaches to Visiting Rome from Antiquity to the Present Day
The British School at Rome
Via Antonio Gramsci, 61
Roma
Data evento
20 May 2026
Guidebooks, prints, maps, photographs, and social media have all been used to convey the history and physical heritage of Rome to travellers, actual and prospective. Artists and authors’ representations and descriptions of the city’s ancient remains are necessarily selective, emphasising and omitting particular features, for political, ideological, aesthetic, historical, and commercial reasons. This half-day workshop examines changing approaches through which ancient Rome has been presented to visitors, from antiquity to the present day. Looking for both variances and commonalities, the papers investigate the how the city’s monuments and ruins were portrayed in different eras, for different audiences, through different media.