Artisans and Workshops: The Places of Production in Rome

In ancient Rome, the figure of the artist and the craftsman was marked by strong ambivalence: on the one hand, authors such as Cicero and Seneca regarded manual labor as undignified; on the other hand, funerary inscriptions tell the stories of men and women who were proud of their trade and made it a source of identity and distinction.



Through these inscriptions, it is also possible to reconstruct the places where these artifices worked, presenting an image of Rome not merely as a city that consumed luxury goods, but as a vibrant and diverse center of production.



The lecture is given by Carlotta Caruso, an official of the Museo Nazionale Romano and one of the exhibition’s curators.