THE ROMAN 'STATUE HABIT'

This talk takes place in-person at the Museum

This event is now fully booked

Meet in the Randolph Sculpture Gallery 22

Part of the July Festival of Archaeology

With Dr Alison Pollard Outreach Officer, School of Classics, University of Oxford

This interactive gallery talk takes a close up look at Roman (with a touch of Greek) sculpture and examines why people in the ancient world commissioned, bought and set up marble statues.

Using the first significant collection of ancient sculpture ever brought together in Britain, we’ll investigate what drove the people of the Roman empire to fill their domestic and public spaces with brightly-coloured sculpture. 
 

Visitors in the Randolph Sculpture Gallery

Note, the Ashmolean's revamped Rome galleries re-open in May this year. They are currently closed for the renovation work.

This talk is part of our Create & Transform season of events. It also marks our summer Festival of Archaeology.

There is also a morning talk taking place on 19 Jul at 11am: Introducing the new Rome Galleries with Dr Paul Roberts

BOOKING

This event is now fully booked.

If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk