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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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Today is a significant anniversary in Italy. Thirt Today is a significant anniversary in Italy. Thirty years since the Mafia-organized terrorist explosion which killed Giovanni Falcone, a Palermitan judge investigating the Mafia. His wife and two police officers were also killed. He is on the left of the first image, the man on the right was his friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino who was killed 57 days later as went to visit his mother. Five police officers were also killed. The second photo is the Palazzo della Giustizia in Palermo, behind security barriers. The third is a memorial to victims of the Mafia at the Palazzo della Giustizia. All photos taken on my visit last September. Today is a day to remember the extraordinary courage of so many Sicilians in the fight against the Mafia. #thisisitalytoo
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