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The Land Walls of Istanbul (Rom, 25 Mar 20)
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom, Mar 25, 2020
Tatjana Bartsch, Roma
İSTANBUL SURLARI – The Land Walls of Istanbul Workshop, Vernissage, Exhibition
Scientific organization: Tatjana Bartsch, Johannes Röll Contact: Marga Sanchez, sanchez@biblhertz.it
The Land Walls of Constantinople, built by emperor Theodosius II at the beginning of the fifth cen- tury, are – with the Aurelian Walls of Rome – the largest preserved city walls of antiquity. For cen- turies they protected the capital of the Byzantine, and then the Ottoman Empire, from external attacks. Although they are the most impressive surviving work of late Roman military architecture, the tourist crowds in modern Istanbul rarely visit this extraordinary monument.
The interdisciplinary workshop approaches the monument from different perspectives and addresses its shape, use and perception by locals and strangers in different epochs. It precedes the opening of the exhibition of photographs by Roman photographer Domenico Ventura, who shows the monument in the context of today's urban changes and focuses in particular on the transitions between the urban space and rural areas.
Program 14:00
Tanja Michalsky (BHMPI) Welcome
14:05
Tatjana Bartsch (BHMPI) Introduzione
14:15
Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The Land Walls of Constantinople – Architecture, Topography and History 15:00
Silvia Pedone (Roma, Gallerie Nazionali Barberini e Corsini)
Cingere la città. Le mura e la loro immagine nei disegni dei viaggiatori e artisti dell’età moderna 15:40 Coffee break
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16:10
Silvia Ronchey (Università Roma Tre)
Le Mura di Terra nelle memorie degli scrittori ottocenteschi 16:50
Aleksandar Shopov (Berlin, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
From Elite Residences to Agricultural Space. Land Use around Istanbul’s Theodosian Walls 18:00
Vernissage
Welcome: Johannes Röll (BHMPI), Domenico Ventura (Roma)
Exhibition: İSTANBUL SURLARI – The Land Walls of Istanbul (26.3.2020 – 18.12.2020) Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Rom
Photographic Collection (ground floor / 2nd floor)
Domenico Ventura has walked the walls from the Golden Horn to the Sea of Marmara with his camera several times since 2009, always carrying with him the chronicles of the conquest of the city in 1453 as well as the travel reports by Edmondo de Amicis from 1874. This exhibition aims to explore the monument in the context of a city that is undergoing a rapid modernization process while being visibly in touch with its past. The photographs also focus on the transitions between the urban space and rural areas: In fact the ancient gardens cultivated by the "inhabitants of the walls" are still preserved as one of the oldest historical cultivated landscapes in the Mediter- ranean, but they are seriously endangered by modern urban planning. Mixing, reshaping and aban- donment determine the selection of images with a strong documentary character. Are the walls an obstacle to change, or rather a symbol of the constantly changing relationship between the city and its people?
https://www.biblhertz.it/2921229/i-stanbul-surlari-the-land-walls-of-istanbul.html
https://www.biblhertz.it/2921146/exhibition-and-vernissage-i-stanbul-surlari-the-land-walls-of-is- tanbul.html
Reference:
CONF: The Land Walls of Istanbul (Rom, 25 Mar 20). In: ArtHist.net, Feb 27, 2020 (accessed Feb 27, 2022),
<https://arthist.net/archive/22719>.
