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The 2023 L'Orange Lecture: Sex and the Church. Early Modern Views on Sexuality and the Body in Eden

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Alessandro Scafi of Warburg Institute, University of London, to…


Relics and Reliquaries – Seeing Is Believing

Relics and reliquaries have been at the core of European devotional cultures during many centuries.…


The Piccolo Ludovisi Sarcophagus: a Seventeenth-Century Forgery?

On the occasion of her 80th birthday, our former Director, Professor Siri Sande, will give an open…


Rethinking Mary in Early Modern Europe - Women's voices and the Virgin Mary

This interdisciplinary symposium will explore the ways in which the Virgin Mary was represented in…


Art Beyond Placeness: Narratives of Movement in the Early Modern Period

International workshop organized by Mattia Biffis, Honorary Fellow at the Norwegian Institute in…


Hagio-Scape! How mobility and materiality shaped pre-modern geographies of devotion (400-1700)

May 24, 2023 9:00 AM–May 26, 2023 3:00 PM. The Norwegian Institute in Rome Ever since fourth…


Perceptions of Aging and Old Age: Thresholds and Life-Cycles

Mar. 28, 9:00 AM, Bibliotheca Hertziana and The Norwegian Institute in Rome Images of old age and…


Director’s Seminar Series 2023

The Director’s seminars take place in the lecture hall downstairs on Tuesday afternoons. Some are…


Passage to the Underworld -- the Etruscan Way

Lecture given by our former Director, Professor em. Rasmus Brandt on the occasion of his 80th…