On the occasion of the exhibition THE ANCIENT MOSAICS OF RAVENNA, The collection of the copies, Tuesday 15 July at 6.30 pm the Italian Cultural Institute of London invites you to the event RAVENNA, CITY OF MOSAICS, a dialogue between Judith Herrin, archaeologist and Byzantinist, and Maria Grazia Marini, director of the tourism board of the Municipality of Ravenna.
Ravenna, crossroads of Europe and UNESCO World Heritage site, is known worldwide as the capital of late antique and contemporary mosaics. A presentation of the city through a dialogue with Judith Herrin, honorary citizen of Ravenna and author of Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.
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Judith Herrin is a British archaeologist, and former holder of the Chair of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King’s College London. She studied history at the University of Cambridge and earned her PhD in 1972 from the University of Birmingham; she also studied in Paris, Athens and Munich, and worked as an archaeologist at the British School in Athens and on the site of the Kalenderhane mosque in Istanbul. She has received prestigious international academic awards and honours, including the Heineken Prize for History in 2016, and is currently recognised as one of the most respected living scholars of Ravenna’s history and art – and certainly one of the most passionate.
She is the author of numerous important works on Byzantine and Early Christian topics. In 2020, her latest book Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe won the Duff Cooper Prize, a literary award given annually for the best work in history, biography or literature, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize.
In 2022, Judith Herrin was granted honorary citizenship by the city of Ravenna.