The Institute will remain closed for external users from 23 December. We look forward to seeing you back in the new year, starting from Tuesday, 7 January 2025. ✨
13 september 2022
Hidden in the basement of the KNIR is a treasure waiting to be explored: a collection of over 500 rare books, mostly from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries and covering a wide array of topics related mainly to Italy and Rome. In this KNIR-practicum, an...
24 juni 2022
In this archaeological field practicum, you explore the archaeology of mountain society with an international team in mountain sites in the Apennines. Target group and admission The field work is open to Bachelor, Master, Research Master and PhD students in...
21 juni 2022
Rome is home to almost one hundred museums and countless collections from the four corners of the worlds. How did these collections of ethnographical, natural and archaeological objects come about and what do they reveal about Rome’s and Italy’s engagement with the...
23 mei 2022
Five-hundred years ago, on Good Friday, April 6th 1520, the painter Raphael died in Rome after a brief illness, exactly 37 years after his birth, also on Good Friday, in Urbino. Even though ‘but’ an artist, at his death he was a prominent member of a network that was...
14 april 2022
Within the Shakespearean corpus the image of ancient Rome works as the emblem of the classical past, a goldmine of foundational myths and the model of an authoritative culture early modern England felt compelled to look to. To Ancient Rome Shakespeare devoted five...
