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An ambitious art project titled\u00a0The School of Hibernia<\/em>, described as an Irish all-female reboot of Raphael\u2019s School of Athens fresco, was presented in Rome on Monday.<\/p>\n The event, which comprised a symposium and a screening, was held with the support of the\u00a0Embassy of Ireland to Italy<\/strong>, and\u00a0Ireland-Italy Projects<\/strong>, as part of celebrations to mark St Brigid’s Day.<\/p>\n Na Cailleacha<\/strong><\/p>\n Created by the art collective\u00a0Na Cailleacha, the project is a full-scale, all-female re-enactment of Raphael\u2019s High Renaissance masterpiece, in a tableau that was staged in the Museum Building in Trinity College Dublin.<\/p>\n The work features\u00a041 influential Irish women<\/strong>, including former president\u00a0Mary Robinson<\/strong>\u00a0and Trinity provost\u00a0Linda Doyle<\/strong>, purposefully replacing the original male philosophers to challenge patriarchal standards in art and education.<\/p>\n The eight members of Na Cailleacha – an Irish term for “witches”, “divine hags” or “wise women”\u00a0– consist of six visual artists, a jazz musician and a curator\/writer who\u00a0joined forces to explore being female and being older creatives.<\/p>\n Symposium and screening<\/strong><\/p>\n The symposium, held in the crypt of St Brigid\u2019s Church in Piazza Farnese, featured illustrious speakers including Caroline Campbell<\/strong>, director of the National Gallery of Ireland, and Professor Arnold Nesselrath<\/strong>, formerly of the Vatican Museums.<\/p>\n The event concluded with the\u00a0screening of Rootstock<\/em><\/strong>, a documentary by Therry Rudin detailing the creation of the tableau, at Cinema Farnese in Campo de’ Fiori.<\/p>\n “St. Brigid\u2019s Day is a wonderful opportunity to highlight and celebrate the many achievements of women in Ireland and around the world” – Ambassador of Ireland to Italy<\/strong>, Elizabeth McCullough<\/strong>, stated, hailing the Rome event\u00a0offered the chance “to reflect on the significant progress attained since The School of Athens was created, and the important work that remains to ensure full equality for women in today\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n Ireland-Italy Projects was founded by Brenda Moore-McCan<\/strong>n and Jane Adams<\/strong> in 2024 to promote cultural exchange between Ireland and Italy.<\/p>\n St Brigid’s Day<\/strong>, celebrated on 1 February, became Ireland’s newest public holiday in 2023 to honour the country’s female patron saint and the beginning of spring.<\/p>\n Photo: The School of Hibernia (after Raphael). 2024. Credit: Na Cailleacha<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The School of Hibernia comes to Rome for St Brigid’s Day. An ambitious art project titled\u00a0The School of Hibernia, described as an Irish all-female reboot of Raphael\u2019s School of Athens fresco, was presented in Rome on Monday. The event, which comprised a symposium and a screening, was held with the support of the\u00a0Embassy of Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[29328,6561,25836,28699,3460,2423,10186],"class_list":["post-45078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-allfemale","tag-art","tag-bring","tag-irish","tag-project","tag-rome","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}