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SOFNews Summer 2002 of the American Academy in Rome Academy in American the of The Society of Fellows of Society The Rome. The Temple of Mars Ultor in the Forum of Augustus (Fototeca Unione, FU 446). The Photographic Archive has moved out of the Library and into a renovated garden house at the American Academy in Rome. See recent photographs of the new home on page 13. From the Editors BY STEFANIE WALKER FH‘01 ere are some thoughts about required attendance during the semes- SOF News HRome in June. The excitement ter, congregate in the city. By design of being back wells up, even though I or by chance they run across each other SUMMER 2002 am staying in a hotel room this time, in the Vatican, the archives, or at the Published by the Society of Fellows of rather than at the Academy. Last year Academy in the library and at lunch. The American Academy in Rome 7 East 60 Street as a Fellow, there was the battle over News about personal research is New York, NY 10022-1001 the Italian soccer championship, the exchanged, as well as gossip about (212) 751-7200 scudetto, between the local teams, Lazio other colleagues. Over ice cream or a CO-EDITORS: Stefanie Walker FH’01 and AS Roma, to pursue (some might Campari plans are hatched for future and Jack Sullivan FL’83 say endure). This time, the loss of Italy collaborations. The long evenings Contributors: Pamela Keech FS‘82, against South Korea in the World Cup provide the opportunity for both Joanne Spurza FC‘88, and has put a premature end to her inter- serious discussion and lighthearted T. Corey Brennan FC‘88 SOF LIAISON: Elsa Dessberg national championship dreams. Even socializing. It is a time to catch up and as a committed scholar trudging to the look forward. Contents State Archive in the blistering heat, I Why does being in Rome always feel couldn’t help noticing the empty like coming home and a new adven- SOF President’s Message 3 streets, and the agonized cries of small ture at the same time? Who doesn’t 7 East 60 Street 4 groups of television watchers wafting have countless stories to tell and keeps Via Angelo Masina 5 5 into the sala di studio interrupted my on adding new ones? The current Southern California Meeting 6 attempts at time travel while poring issue presents some of the thoughts and News from Rome 7 over seventeenth-century documents. stories, personal or professional, of Music of the AAR 8 I couldn’t help rooting for the Italians Fellows who want to share their news. CAA Reception in Philadelphia 8 and “feeling their pain.” Whether as a short scribbled note, or Rome Prize Ceremony 9 Early summer here is like an unoffi- as longer text, we hope you will con- 2002-2003 Rome Prize Winners 10 Recent Books by Academy Authors 12 cial reunion: academics, liberated from tinue to add to them. P Photographic Archive 13 Awards & Publications 14 AAR Field Abbreviations Exhibits & Performances 15 F = Fellow; R = Resident; A = Architecture; ASCSR = American School of Classical Studies in Other News 16 Rome; B = Oscar Broneer Fellow; C = Classical Studies and Archæology; CHP = Conservation/ A Roman Spring: Recent Events 17 Historic Preservation; D = Design; DTF = Dinkeloo Traveling Fellow; FF = Fulbright Fellow; In Memoriam 18 H = History of Art; L = Landscape Architecture; M = Musical Composition; MEC = Mellon AAR Benefit Dinner 21 East-Central European Visiting Scholar; P = Painting; R = Post-Classical Humanistic & Modern Jacqueline Kennedy Tour 21 Italian Studies; S = Sculpture; SRVA = Southern Regional Visiting Artist; V = Visual Art; VA = Visiting Artist; VC = Visiting Curator; VS = Visiting Scholar; W = Writing. Memoirs of the AAR 23 ART CREDITS: 4: George A. Hinds; 6: Michael Graves: The Necessity forDrawing Michael Vergason; 7: Kay Jackson; 21: Frederick Biehle. n an illustrated lecture entitled “The places in Rome, including those drawn friends of the Academy attended this INecessity for Drawing” held on during his time as a Rome Prize Fellow. lecture, which took place at the Metro- February 7, 2002, architect MICHAEL He discussed how that experience has politan Club in New York City. The talk GRAVES FA‘62, RA‘78, spoke about his affected his professional work to date was presented by the American Acad- creative process through a selection of and reflected on the importance of emy in Rome in collaboration with The early drawings from his travels that drawing in an architect’s education and Institute of Classical Architecture and record significant classical buildings and practice. Almost 300 Fellows and was sponsored by Target Stores. C 2 SOF News Summer 2002 SOF President’s Message PAMELA KEECH FS‘82 uesday, May 22: We arrive in favorite place to stay, and where he then fall into a discussion about how TRome on a late afternoon flight died in 1913. We will see his favorite New York is doing after 9/11. from New York via Paris. Happily, our suite. Huge rooms with yellow/ma- That night, the Big Night, the dedi- luggage has made the connection. We genta/blue carpets, changed little since cation of the restored Villa Aurelia. are not staying at the Academy this Morgan’s time. Then over to St. Paul’s How long since the gates were open? time, we are at a hotel on the Aventine. Within-the-Walls, the American Epis- The color has been restored to the pale Unpacking, showers, dinner, we get copal church that Morgan attended. creme it once was. It looks so casual, a up to the Academy at about 10 pm. In the apse, we see Morgan-sponsored soft summer shirt with it’s collar open, It is two nights before the opening Burne-Jones mosaics with American as if it has always been this way and of the annual exhibition and the main soldier-saints Ulysses S.Grant and, millions of hours and dollars have not building is buzzing with the charette. unmistakably, Abraham Lincoln in full just been spent on it. This is “family Norm is at the gate, laughs, lets us in. medieval battle-dress. night,” all the fellows, trustees, staff, Something is different. The white Photo by Pamela Keech contractors and builders, friends from gravel surrounding the fountain has years and years have been invited. become a dark, sparkling, ocean; a flat, Three hundred or so watch as trustee calm sea of blue glass pebbles. Che cosè? MERCEDES BASS, who has given her all ANDY CAO’s work. The two big studios in coaxing the Villa back to health, cuts near the gate are lit, in the one on the the ribbon across the doorway. She is right, tall scaffolding against the wall, proclaimed an honorary architect. In- VANALYNE GREEN and assistants are side it is the building we all remember, working on . what? Constructing a but now fresh, shining, strong. Walls 30-foot cat out of post-its? Inside, am- are stable, ancient wood floors firm and plified music comes from the salone. polished a mano. A surprise, the small We stand in the cortile and look in apartment with the terrace on the very through the windows. Composer top has become an intimate library. DEREK BERMEL is playing piano and Trustee MICHAEL PUTMAN FC‘64, singing “don’t panic, don’t panic...” Lis- RC‘70, who lived there when he was teners are relaxed, shoes off, heads back, professor-in-charge, strolls through eyes closed, following his advice. The exhibition of artists’ work included a mime posing with a glass of prosecco, and a Latin as a sculpture of a goddess and a foot masseur. Andy Thursday, May 23: The exhibition Cao added crushed blue glass paving to the ensemble. poem on his lips as the room is dedi- opens. Night of brilliant colors against cated to the memory of trustee Mark a stormy-gray Roman sky. Green grass, Huge lunch: oysters, carpaccio, Hampton, who started the restoration blue glass, a studio painted red, a mozzarella so fresh liquid spurts project years ago. The Villa is back. woman in white atop the fountain. across the table when you cut into it, Sunday, May 26: We board the bus Colors worn by guests are amplified, chocolate cake. to travel to Villa dei Quintilli in Via magenta pants, a bright green jewel, a I break off from the group in the Appia Antica with guide BETSEY violent yellow wrap. Later it rains, afternoon, can’t wait to make my ROBINSON. The driver gets lost imme- people open umbrellas, and the passeggiata through Trastevere. In Via diately; we stop for coffee. Can’t get woman on the fountain bends, turns, del Moro I find that the Corner there from here, rumors of Bush arriv- never smiles. Bookshop has moved a few doors ing, roads blocked around Ciampino. Saturday, May 25: On the first walk down, just across from a bar that is Finally arrive, last night’s images of Villa and talk, devoted to Academy patron playing Simon and Garfunkel. I join Aurelia overlay the ruins of Quintelli on J.P. Morgan, we meet guide LILA Y AWN the customers who are browsing, we the hill. Red poppies and yellow broom FH’98 at the Grand Hotel, Morgan’s all sing along with “Sounds of Silence,” cover the approach, (continued on page 8) SOF NewS Summer 2002 3 7 East 60 Street ADELE CHATFIELD-TAYLOR FD‘84 ike so many like institutions, the American Academy in We have been here for 10 years, and would gladly stay on, LRome is grateful to have made it into the 21st century in but the Club needs more space for its own operations, and good health.