British School at Rome

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The British School at Rome (BSR) is a British interdisciplinary research centre supporting the arts, humanities and architecture established in Rome. Historical and archaeological study are at the core of its activities.

History

The British School at Rome (BSR) was established in 1901 and granted a UK Royal Charter in 1912. Its mission is "to promote knowledge of and deep engagement with all aspects of the art, history and culture of Italy by scholars and fine artists from Britain and the Commonwealth, and to foster international and interdisciplinary exchange."Wallace-Hadrill, A., 2001. The British School at Rome: One Hundred Years, London: British School at Rome

Following the International Exhibition of Art in Rome in 1911, the site of the Edwin Lutyens-designed British Pavilion in the Valle Giulia was granted to the UK on condition that it be used exclusively as a British research centre for archaeology, history and the fine arts. In 1916, after significant adaptation by Lutyens, the BSR moved into what is still its home. In 2002, a purpose-built lecture theatre and gallery spaces, designed by Hugh Petter and sponsored by the Sainsbury family, were opened by Princess Alexandra.John, Richard, 2010. Robert Adam: The Search for a Modern Classicism, Images Publishing. The BSR is immediately adjacent to the Villa Borghese gardens and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna.

Awards and fellowships

The BSR awards residential scholarships and fellowships to artists and scholars from the Commonwealth for periods of three to twelve months. The awardees live in the BSR building and have access to its specialist reference library.{{cite web | url=http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/artists_stories/single/442341 |publisher=a-n | title=Walter, John, 2008. John Walter – British School at Rome |access-date=March 1, 2012}} Recipients of the fine art awards are provided with studio and workshop facilities.{{cite web | url=http://www.kevinmckayart.com/Rome_I.html | title=Kevin Mckay BSR blog}}

Awards, based on an open access application system, are made in the following fields: Archaeology of Italy and the Mediterranean; Late Antique and Medieval History; Renaissance and Enlightenment studies; Modern Italian Studies; Architectural History; Architecture including Landscape Architecture; contemporary visual arts practice.{{cite web | url=http://www.abbey.org.uk/about_the_awards.php | title=Abbey Awards scholarships in painting | access-date=24 March 2014 | archive-date=14 January 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114083631/http://www.abbey.org.uk/about_the_awards.php | url-status=dead }}

=Fine Arts awards=

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Abbey Fellowship in Painting (three-month residency)
Abbey Scholarship in Painting (nine-month residency){{cite web | url=http://www.abbey.org.uk/ | title=Abbey Scholarship website}}
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship (three-month residency)
Augusta Scholarship (three-month residency)
The Bridget Riley Fellowship (six-month residency)
BSR Wallace New Zealand Residency (three-month residency)
Conseil des Arts et des Lettres, Québec Residency (three-month residency)
Creative Wales – British School at Rome Fellow (three-month residency)
Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship (three-month residency){{Cite web|url=https://bsr.ac.uk/|title=bsr.ac.uk – the British School at Rome}}
Helpmann Academy Resident (three-month residency)
National Art School, Sydney, Resident (three-month residency)
Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art (three-month residency)
Rome Prize in Architecture (six-month residency)
Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture (one-year residency){{Cite web|url=https://linburytrust.org.uk/|title=Linbury Trust|website=linburytrust.org.uk}}
Scholars' Prize in Architecture (three-month residency)

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{{cite web | url=http://www.bsr.ac.uk/research/award-holders-current | title=BSR Fine arts awards | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107165238/http://www.bsr.ac.uk/research/award-holders-current | archive-date=2012-11-07 }}

=Humanities awards=

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Balsdon Fellowship (three-month senior fellowship)
Hugh Last Fellowship (three-month senior fellowship)
Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellowship (three-month senior fellowship)
Coleman-Hilton Scholarship (University of Sydney) (six-month residency)
CRASSH–BSR Research Fellow (with funding from the Isaac Newton Fund) (six-month residency)
Giles Worsley Rome Fellowship (three-month residency)
Henry Moore Foundation – BSR Fellowship in Sculpture (three-month residency)
John Murray / Keats – Shelley Memorial Association Creative Writing Resident (three-month residency)
Judith Maitland Memorial Award (three-month residency)
Macquarie Gale Rome Scholarship (six-month residency)
Mougins Museum Rome Awards (three-month residency)
Rome Award (three-month residency)
Rome Fellowship (nine-month residency)

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{{cite web | url=http://www.bsr.ac.uk/research/award-holders-current | title=BSR Humanities awards | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107165238/http://www.bsr.ac.uk/research/award-holders-current | archive-date=2012-11-07 }}

Governance and leadership

The British School at Rome is one of the sponsored institutes of the British Academy, whilst maintaining itself as an autonomous body.{{cite web | url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/intl/index-basis.cfm | title=Academy-Sponsored Institutes | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313045132/http://www.britac.ac.uk/intl/index-basis.cfm | archive-date=2016-03-13 }} It receives financial support from the British Academy, award sponsors, private donors and its membership,{{cite web | url=http://www.bsr.ac.uk/about | title=Financial Support}} and is a registered charity under English law.{{EW charity|314176|THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME}}

The BSR is led by a Director, who has traditionally been a senior scholar in the fields of Classical history, art history, or archaeology.

=List of directors=

Gordon McNeil Rushforth – First Director{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.bsr.ac.uk/about/history|publisher=The British School at Rome|access-date=28 August 2012}}
Sir Henry Stuart-Jones (1903–1905){{cite web|title=STUART-JONES, Sir Henry|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=December 2007}}
Thomas Ashby (1906–1925){{cite web|title=ASHBY, Thomas|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=December 2007}}
Bernard Ashmole (1925–1928){{cite web|last=Boardman|first=John|title=Ashmole, Bernard (1894–1988)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004}}
Arthur Smith (1928–1930, 1932){{cite web|title=SMITH, Arthur Hamilton|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=December 2007}}
Ian Richmond (1930–1932){{cite web|title=RICHMOND, Sir Ian|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=December 2007}}
Arthur Smith (1932) – Second term
Colin Hardie (1933–1936){{cite web|title=HARDIE, Colin Graham|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=May 2009}}
Ralegh Radford (1936–1939){{cite web|title=RADFORD, (Courtenay Arthur) Ralegh|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=May 2009}}
No director during World War II (1939–1945)
John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1946–1974){{cite web|title=WARD-PERKINS, John Bryan|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=December 2007}}
Dr David Whitehouse (1974–1984){{cite web|title=WHITEHOUSE, Dr David Bryn|work=Who's Who 2012|publisher=A & C Black|year=2012}}
Professor Donald A. Bullough (1984) – Acting Director{{cite web|title=BULLOUGH, Prof. Donald Auberon|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|date=December 2007}}
Professor Graeme Barker (1984–1988){{cite web|title=BARKER, Prof. Graeme William Walter|work=Who's Who 2012|publisher=A & C Black|year=2012}}
Professor Richard Hodges (1988–1995){{cite web|title=HODGES, Prof. Richard Andrew|work=Who's Who 2012|publisher=A & C Black|year=2012}}
Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (1995–2009){{cite web |title=Prof Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, OBE, FSA |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/5473/Andrew+Frederic.aspx |work=People of Today |publisher=Debrett's |access-date=28 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620065254/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/5473/Andrew%2BFrederic.aspx |archive-date=20 June 2013 }}
Professor Christopher Smith (2009–2017){{cite web|title=Staff and Fellows|url=http://www.bsr.ac.uk/about/staff-and-fellows|publisher=The British School at Rome|access-date=28 August 2012}}
Professor Stephen Milner (2017–2020){{cite web|title=British Academy welcomes new Director of the British School at Rome|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/british-academy-welcomes-new-director-british-school-rome|website=British Academy|access-date=15 July 2017|date=10 July 2017}}
Professor Chris Wickham (2020–September 2021){{cite web|title=Announcement to BSR staff and BSR Faculties – Appointment of Professor Chris Wickham as BSR Director|url=https://www.bsr.ac.uk/site2014/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BSR-Council-communication-5th-November-Announcement-of-new-Director-1.pdf|website=bsr.ac.uk|language=en|date=5 November 2020|access-date=19 November 2020}}
Professor Abigail Brundin (September 2021–present)

Notable alumni

=Fine arts=

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Gillian Ayres RA
Richard Billingham
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
Adam Chodzko{{cite web | url=https://www.bsr.ac.uk/adam-chodzko-speaks-at-maxxi-27-november|publisher=British School at Rome|title=Adam Chodzko Speaks at MAXXI, 27 November|access-date=5 September 2021}}
Judith Cowan (sculptor)
Stephen Farthing RA{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/stephen-farthing-ra|title=Stephen Farthing | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}
Denzil Forrester
Bethan Huws
Chantal Joffe
Winifred Knights
Julian Opie
Cornelia Parker RA
Eddie Peake
Elizabeth Price
Laure Prouvost
John Skeaping RA
Bob and Roberta Smith RA
Emma Stibbon RA{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/emma-stibbon-ra|title=Emma Stibbon | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}
Daniel Sturgis
Joe Tilson RA
Mark Wallinger{{cite web | url=http://www.anthonyreynolds.com/biogs/wallinger.htm | title=Anthony Reynolds Gallery, Mark Wallinger biography | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324141526/http://www.anthonyreynolds.com/biogs/wallinger.htm | archive-date=2014-03-24 }}
Alison Wilding RAPress, O.U., 2012. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, Oxford University Press.
Cerith Wyn Evans
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
Soheila Sokhanvari
Kimathi Donkor
Cathy Lomax}}

=Humanities=

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David Abulafia FBA (Professor of Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge)
Nicholas Cullinan (Director, National Portrait Gallery)
Penelope Curtis (Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, formerly Director of Tate Britain)
Rose Ferraby (Director of Aldborough Roman Town Project)
Nicholas Purcell FBA (Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford)