International Conference Rome, December 9-11, 2025
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma
Rome in the Nordic Countries
Images of Ancient and Modern Architecture, 17th-19th Century
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 15.30-18.30
The conference can be followed remotely at the link: https://servizibncrm.beniculturali.it/nordic/
15.30 Greetings
Stefano Campagnolo, Director, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Marcello Fagiolo, President, Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma
16.00-16.30
The Italian PRIN Research Programme
Mario Bevilacqua, Sapienza Università di Roma
Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma
All Rome in Paper. Architectural Prints in Baroque Europe
Saverio Sturm, Università Roma Tre
Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma
Academies and Travels in Italy: the Training of Swedish Architects in the 18th Century
Antonello Alici, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Finland under Swedish Rule: Classical Models Travelling North in the 18th and 19th Centurie
16.30-18.00 Keynote lectures
Augusto Roca De Amicis, Sapienza Università di Roma
Roma e il Barocco internazionale
Kristoffer Neville, University of California, Riverside
Rome and the Gothic North. Architectural History and Cultural History
Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland, Oslo University
Cross-Confessional Circulation of Religious Prints in Early Modern Europe
18.00 – 19.00 discussion
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici in Roma, 9.30-17.00
The conference can be followed remotely at the link: https://www.youtube.com/@ISVROMA
9.30 Greetings
Ulf Hansson, Director, Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici in Roma
9.40- 11.00 Travelling Artists and Architects: South-North
chair: Sabrina Norlander Eliasson
Marisa Tabarrini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma
La diffusione delle lezioni di architettura di Vincenzo Della Greca nei paesi d’Oltralpe.
Il manoscritto nelle collezioni del principe del Liechtenstein a Schloss Vaduz
Andrea Spiriti, Università dell’Insubria
Architetti e stuccatori dei laghi lombardi in viaggio verso nord
Giovanni Bellucci, Università Politecnica delle Marche
The Italian Heritage in Town and Military Planning in Finland in the 17th and 18th Centuries by Swedish Engineers
Paweł Migasiewicz, Hanna Osiecka-Samsonowicz, Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Architetti romani nella Polonia della prima età moderna
11.00 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30- 12.50 Travelling Artists and Architects: North-South
chair: Saverio Sturm
Barbara Arciszewska, Warsaw University
The Image of Rome as a Sign of Architectural Modernity in the European Travel Diaries of Bartłomiej Wąsowski (1650-1656)
Sabrina Norlander Eliasson, University of Stockholm, Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici in Roma
David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628-1698) and the Roman School of Painting: Iconography and Technique in the Arts Round the Bust of Queen Christina of Sweden
Linnéa Rollenhagen Tilly, ENSA Paris La Villette
Two Swedes in Rome: The Architect F.A.U. Cronstedt and the Artist F.A. von Numers, 1772-1773
Christopher Landstedt, University of Stockholm
Swedish Sculptor Erik Gustaf Göthe’s (1779–1838). Studies and Work in Rome 1803-1810
12.50 – 15.00 discussion and light lunch
15.00- 17.00 Sovereigns, Patrons, Academies
chair: Antonello Alici
Giedre Jarulaitiene, Independent Scholar
The Role of Catherine Jagiellon in the Nordic Renaissance
Christoffer Thorborg, Åarhus School of Architecture
Beyond Propaganda and Conspicuous Consumption. The Strategic and Political role of Baroque-Classicism in Early Absolutist Denmark
Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, HM The King’s Reference Library, Royal Danish Collection, Copenhagen
Lambert van Haven and the First Signs of a Danish Art Academy
Giuseppe Dardanello, Università di Torino
La Roma antica e moderna di Filippo Juvarra nelle raccolte di vedute ideate donate a Lord Burlington e ad Augusto III di Sassonia
Carlotta Torricelli, Università Roma Tre
In the Mirror. The Image of Rome through the Eyes of Two Swedish Sovereigns
16.40 – 17.00 discussion
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici in Roma, 9.30-13.00
9,30- 10.30 Circulation of Models, I
chair: Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland
Gjert Vestrheim, University of Bergen
The Country Villas of Bergen 1660-1709
Francesco Freddolini, Sapienza Università di Roma
Raymond Leplat and the Networks of Sculpture Mobility from Carrara to the Nordic Countries
Martin Olin, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Nicodemus Tessin’s Italian Palaces for the Kings of France and Sweden
10.30 – 11.00 coffee break
11.00- 13.00 Circulation of Models, II
chair: Kristoffer Neville
Anna Bortolozzi, University of Stockholm
Nicodemus Tessin’s Project for Charles XII’s Stockholm Arsenal Palace and the Roman Baroque
isual Culture of Warfare and Military Triumph
Otto Ruin, University of Stockholm
Sceneries of Nordic Arcadia. Louis Jean Desprez’s Scenography in Sweden
Anna Pichetto Fratin, Direzione regionale Musei Piemonte
Parallel Paths: Carl Christoffer Gjorwell and Charles Bassi in Sweden and Finland
Sofia Nannini, Politecnico di Torino
Classical Elements in Icelandic Architecture from the 18th Century to the Beginning of the 20th
Final discussion