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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...
The Vatican Museums: Not just the Sistine Chapel

The Vatican Museums: Not just the Sistine Chapel

Art History, Early Renaissance, Melozzo da Forli', Vatican

Tweet Anyone visiting Rome over the next week or so may have been dismayed to find that at 1pm today the Sistine Chapel closed to allow preparations for the conclave to take place, and will remain closed as long as is necessary. The next time it opens there will be a...

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Roast chicken (of the sort that has roamed wild wh Roast chicken (of the sort that has roamed wild while being read poetry), roast potatoes, and the first agretti (which is basically grass) of the year.
Full moon. Full moon.
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Three years ago today it snowed in Rome. That was Three years ago today it snowed in Rome. That was pretty wild.
Obligatory #giovedignocchi shot. As ever from the Obligatory #giovedignocchi shot. As ever from the fair hands of Irene @trattoriapigneto. Always delicious.
Umbrella pine, palm, nymphaeum. Ostia Antica is ju Umbrella pine, palm, nymphaeum. Ostia Antica is just too glorious. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever taken exactly the same route twice. I’m doing a public live-streamed walk via Zoom webinar here next Friday (5 March). €25 per screen connection, 1 hour. Link in bio, DM or email to book.
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