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The Donation of Constantine

The Donation of Constantine

Art History, Caelian, Churches, Counter Reformation, Empire, Fresco, High Renaissance, Late Medieval, Late Medieval Art, Medieval Art, Vatican

Tweet In the mid 8th century, a beleaguered Pope named Stephen “found” a document of inestimable value. Purporting to have been written over three centuries earlier, in it the Emperor Constantine handed over complete power of the city of Rome, amongst...
Eternal acanthus and the apse mosaics of San Clemente

Eternal acanthus and the apse mosaics of San Clemente

Art History, Caelian, Late Medieval, Late Medieval Art, Rome, Underground Rome

Tweet In my last post I wrote about the 15th century chapel of Branda Castiglione at the church of San Clemente, a languid stone’s throw from the Colosseum. San Clemente is one of countless buildings in Rome which serves as a history of the city in microcosm: twelfth...
Eternal acanthus and the apse mosaics of San Clemente

Shaking off the Middle Ages: the Castiglione Chapel at San Clemente

Art History, Caelian, Churches, Early Renaissance, Fresco, Late Medieval, Late Medieval Art, Medieval Art, Rome

Tweet On Monday morning I was exploring underground sites on the Caelian Hill with a charming couple from California. We started off a stone’s throw from the Colosseum at the church of San Clemente where layer upon layer of the city’s history can be explored; a...
Antoniazzo Romano – Pictor Urbis: Rome’s home-grown Renaissance painter

Antoniazzo Romano – Pictor Urbis: Rome’s home-grown Renaissance painter

Art History, Centro Storico, Churches, Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Late Medieval Art, Melozzo da Forli', Renaissance, Rome

Tweet I’ve always been rather fond of Antoniazzo Romano (1430/5-1510), a Rome-born mid-fifteenth century artist who bound the developments of Florentine painting to the medieval traditions of religious art, creating an inimitably Roman style. He rose to prominence...
Seeing new things; it’s all in the detail – the apse mosaics by Pietro Cavallini at Santa Maria in Trastevere

Seeing new things; it’s all in the detail – the apse mosaics by Pietro Cavallini at Santa Maria in Trastevere

Art History, Late Medieval Art, Trastevere

Tweet I usually like to take advantage of this quieter time of year by exploring Rome. And there’s no shortage of things to look at. As they say around these parts, “Roma, nun basta ‘na vita”: a lifetime isn’t enough. Familiar places can...

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Absolutely delicious @reginadeisibillini rigatoni Absolutely delicious @reginadeisibillini rigatoni al pomodoro e ricotta salata (the pasta was bought from @pigneto_41, who in the interests of Covid diversification are now selling some amazing local/local-ish products). Plus a couple of fab fish leftover from @maxplatini’s birthday lunch @lasanteriadimare yesterday and some greens for afters. It’s not even eight o’clock and, possibly for the first time ever, we’ve already finished supper. #lockdownsuppers
I took this photo a year ago today when a client a I took this photo a year ago today when a client and I visited the Palatine Hill @parcocolosseo. We went in at 8.30 and (unbeknownst to us) twenty minutes later all Italian museums and archeological sites we closed by government decree. We explored the site, the only people there, for a couple of hours before being turfed out by the guards when they closed the site down completely. The next day a full and stringent lockdown was decreed which lasted for two months.
Birthday breakfast for @maxplatini at @pigneto_41. Birthday breakfast for @maxplatini at @pigneto_41. Given current circumstances they’re now also open for breakfast with extremely delicious homemade cakes.
I’m definitely doing a talk about Cosmati work i I’m definitely doing a talk about Cosmati work in April! #ihavethisthingwithfloors
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Even in Rome sometimes on a Friday night you just Even in Rome sometimes on a Friday night you just want a curry. Delivery from Sundarban in Tor Pignattara is the answer. I’ve never met them, or had a discount but we’ve ordered twice and it’s been delicious both times.
(How to feel less bad about using delivery apps? Be down at the front of the building as they arrive, wear a mask, tip well)
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