Description

This volume represents the American Academy in Rome, its fellows, and the international community who use its excellent facilities. The Memoirs present a selection of articles on topics such as Roman archaeology, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history.

Volume 61 includes the following essays and articles: "Athens, Etruria, Rome, Baltimore: Reconstructing the Biography of an Ancient Greek Vase," by Sheramy D. Bundrick; "Made from Life: A Roman Terracotta Portrait in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," by Peter Schertz, Pamela Hatchfield, Richard Newman, and Reno Pisano, with Rajiv Gupta and Benjamin Reichardt; "Forgery and the Antiquarian Tradition: The Identification of Horace's Sabine Villa at Vacone," by Matthew Notarian, Dylan Bloy, and Gary D. Farney; "Before and Below the Baths of Trajan (Rome)," by Rita Volpe; "Philostratus' Gymnasticus: The Ethics of an Athletic Aesthetic," by Heather L. Reid; "Baldassarre Peruzzi at Saint Peter's: The American Academy Plan and Peruzzi's modello of 1521," by Peter W. Parsons; "Giovanni Battista Palumba's Mythological Progeny," by Giancarlo Fiorenza; "The School of Athens: Theologians Reconciling Philosophy and Astrology," by Mary Quinlan-McGrath; "From Palace to Paradise: The Transformation of the Palazzo Sanseverino into the Gesù Nuovo in Naples," by Maria Ann Conelli; and "Vasi, Piranesi, and the Accademia degli Arcadi: Toward a Definition of Arcadianism in the Visual Arts," by Susan M. Dixon. The volume closes with a special section, "New Work on the Archaeology of Late Antique Rome," which includes three pieces: "Late Antique Restoration and Consolidation of the Aqua Claudia," by Valeria Bartoloni and Laura Braccalenti; "Hemicycle of the Circus Maximus: Synthesis of the Late Antique Phases Revealed by Recent Investigations," by Marialetizia Buonfiglio, Stefania Pergola, and Gian Luca Zanzi, with an Appendix by Domenica Dininno and Alessandro Vecchione; and "Piazza Augusto Imperatore, Excavations 2007-2011: The Late Antique Transformations," by Caterina Maria Coletti and Ersilia Maria Loreti.