• Professor Daria Borghese spoke about the ‘fig-leaf campaign’, the cover-up of pagan nude statues which offended Counter-Reformation sensibilities;
• Professor Paul Gwynne was interviewed about the Sack of Rome in 1527 by Imperial troops;
• while Professor Valerie Higgins contributed on early Christian Art from the catacombs.

The series has been screened around the world and is regularly repeated on the various satellite History channels, with excerpts available on Youtube.

More links

• Museum Secrets Website
• Trailer for episode on the Vatican

The course is open to students of all levels and credits are given in both Art History and Archeology. There is a pre-requisite requirement of a 100-level Art History or Archeology course, or prior permission of the instructor.

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Prof. Kerr trained as a professional conservator and holds an MA in Art Conservation from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is specialized in the conservation and restoration of early Italian Renaissance panel paintings and has an active interest in technical art history and materials research. Her work in museums and private collections has taken her to Italy, England, and the United States and her experience includes everything from the restoration of 2^nd century frescoes to Baroque ceiling paintings. In 2007 Prof. Kerr was awarded a Kress Fellowship to conserve Florentine cassoni (15^th century wedding chests) for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and she was a contributing author in “Art Conservation and Authenticities: Material, Concept, Context” published in 2009. She currently lives in London and works as a consultant conservator.

Prof. Eowyn Kerr working on the restoration of a Florentine cassone panel.

With a Ph.D. from New York University, Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Dale Kinney spent 38 years on Bryn Mawr’s faculty, during which time she also served as Acting Provost (2000) and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2000-2008) before retiring in 2010.

As Research Professor, she is at work on several publications on various topics concerning medieval art and architecture. Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine, which she co-edited with Richard Brilliant, will be published on September 28 and will be distributed in November (Ashgate). Prof. Kinney is also currently working on the architecture of a 6th Century monastery in Sohag, Egypt, while continuing to do research on medieval Rome.

Prof. Kinney is not new to Rome or to AUR. She lived here from 1969 to 1972, and was a Fellow of the American Academy from 1970 to 1972. She returned to Rome as Resident at the Academy in 1996, and in 2008-2009 she was Richard Krautheimer Guest Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana across town. In 2005 she reviewed the AUR Art History Program. “It is very interesting for me to meet new professors, see the institution from a different prospective and notice how the program has developed. I am looking forward to these few months at AUR” she commented.

Dr. Kinney serves on various committees and advisory boards, including the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art, the Board of Advisors of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the Editorial Advisory Board of Studies in Iconography. She will return to the US in December 2011.

Articles in press include “Spolia as Signifiers in Twelfth-Century Rome” and an essay on Richard Krautheimer in a volume marking the 100th anniversary of the Bibliotheca Hertziana.

ICOMOS works closely with UNESCO, ICCROM, and ICOM in order to establish an integrated theoretical basis of preservation of cultural heritage.  The members of the ICOMOS Scientific Committee for Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration work collectively through meetings, conferences, and publications to explore and develop the basis and framework of conservation, restoration and preservation theory and practice in the globalizing world for the purpose of protecting and safeguarding our cultural heritage monuments and sites.

At the conference Dr. Archibald was appointed as an Expert of the Round Table on Cultural Heritage of the Del Bianco Foundation of Florence, Italy which is a UNESCO and ICCROM recognized foundation.