Exhibitions
Events
On display
Rome Then and Now: Exploring Rossini's Views of the Eternal City
Luigi Rossini Veduta del Ponte Salario 1822. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 1998
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Classical archaeologist Alison Griffith explores Luigi Rossini’s etchings of ancient Roman buildings as an indispensable tool for architectural historians, and as a way of understanding how later Romans simultaneously lived with, and romanticised, their own past.
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
Luigi Rossini: Le Antichità Romane
18 August 2018 – 20 January 2019
A young Italian architect and archaeologist is captivated by the Rome of antiquity.
