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LISTED BELOW ARE three ONE HOUR LIVE STREAMED WEBINARS FOR TERM FOUR, 2020. You choose one or more of these Webinars and the times that suit your school
Full Webinar program details are downloadable here:
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Tues 10 Nov 2020: Herculaneum - Maiuri's Excavations 1927-58
10am-11am and repeated 2pm-3pm
This Webinar features excavation photos from the 1930s and historic newsreel footage of Amedeo Maiuri's excavation and restoration of the ancient buildings on site. The presentation introduces students to the layout of the town and highlights the problems encountered in its excavation from under 20 metres of pyroclastic material. There is discussion of Maiuri's plans for the display of the site to visitors and details of the significant conservation problems that were the legacy of his use of materials that we now know were inappropriate. Once students understand the nature of Maiuri's restorations they easily appreciate the conservation problems faced in our time.
Tues 17 November 2020: Herculaneum Public Buildings
10am-11am and repeated 2pm-3pm.
This presentation introduces students to the main public buildings of Herculaneum -some of them still buried. We descend underground to visit the town's impressive theatre and examine the colossal statues of the emperors rescued from the Augusteum, the shrine of the emperors. The general location of the still buried forum and market place will be discussed. We will examine the Basilica built by Marcus Nonius Balbus and assess what is know of it from the 21st cent excavations. The two town bath complexes will be visited as well as the palaestra, the sports field. In all there will be an emphasis on the function of civic buildings in the political and social life of a Roman town such as Herculaneum.
10am-11am and repeated 2pm-3pm
This Webinar features excavation photos from the 1930s and historic newsreel footage of Amedeo Maiuri's excavation and restoration of the ancient buildings on site. The presentation introduces students to the layout of the town and highlights the problems encountered in its excavation from under 20 metres of pyroclastic material. There is discussion of Maiuri's plans for the display of the site to visitors and details of the significant conservation problems that were the legacy of his use of materials that we now know were inappropriate. Once students understand the nature of Maiuri's restorations they easily appreciate the conservation problems faced in our time.
Tues 17 November 2020: Herculaneum Public Buildings
10am-11am and repeated 2pm-3pm.
This presentation introduces students to the main public buildings of Herculaneum -some of them still buried. We descend underground to visit the town's impressive theatre and examine the colossal statues of the emperors rescued from the Augusteum, the shrine of the emperors. The general location of the still buried forum and market place will be discussed. We will examine the Basilica built by Marcus Nonius Balbus and assess what is know of it from the 21st cent excavations. The two town bath complexes will be visited as well as the palaestra, the sports field. In all there will be an emphasis on the function of civic buildings in the political and social life of a Roman town such as Herculaneum.
Eighteenth century plan of the still-buried Augustuem, once thought to be the town's basilica.
Tuesday 24 November 2020 Herculaneum: Four Houses and their conservation
10-11am; repeated 2pm-3pm.
This presentation seeks to introduce students to a number of different houses in order to dispel the notion that there is a 'typical' Roman house. Key features of Roman houses will be presented with examples but the emphasis will be the differences - reflecting the time at which the houses were built, the subdivision of houses or the expansion of houses. Restrictions imposed by different land holdings make it hard to generalise. We will also consider how the Maiuri restorations put many houses under stress through the weight od heavy concrete roof girders or reinforced concrete flat roofs. We will see the problems caused by rebuilding walls that were not square due to the volcanic forces that had warped them. We will discuss the chemistry of restored walls that have threatened the survival of the frescoes and mosaics upon them. This will lead to an evaluation of the work done by scientists from the Getty and Pratt institutes and specialist conservators working for the Herculaneum Conservation Project.
10-11am; repeated 2pm-3pm.
This presentation seeks to introduce students to a number of different houses in order to dispel the notion that there is a 'typical' Roman house. Key features of Roman houses will be presented with examples but the emphasis will be the differences - reflecting the time at which the houses were built, the subdivision of houses or the expansion of houses. Restrictions imposed by different land holdings make it hard to generalise. We will also consider how the Maiuri restorations put many houses under stress through the weight od heavy concrete roof girders or reinforced concrete flat roofs. We will see the problems caused by rebuilding walls that were not square due to the volcanic forces that had warped them. We will discuss the chemistry of restored walls that have threatened the survival of the frescoes and mosaics upon them. This will lead to an evaluation of the work done by scientists from the Getty and Pratt institutes and specialist conservators working for the Herculaneum Conservation Project.
Scientific investigation of the frescoes in the House of the Bicentenary by the J.P. Getty Institute, Malibu, CA, USA.
The House of the Wooden Partition after conservation interventions.