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Heavens Above: A few thoughts about ceilings

Heavens Above: A few thoughts about ceilings

Art History, Baroque, Michelangelo, Renaissance, Rome, Vatican

Tweet Recently I’ve been thinking about ceilings. Elaborately painted ones to be precise. A couple of weeks ago I took a group of 41 seventeen-year-old girls from the James Allen’s Girls’ School, plus their teachers, to see two of them. In the morning we visited the...
Jonah, the lynchpin of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Jonah, the lynchpin of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Art History, High Renaissance, Michelangelo, Rome, Vatican

Tweet 500 years ago today, Michelangelo was finishing work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. One of the most visited, discussed, celebrated, and indeed largest paintings in the history of art. An anniversary is always a good excuse for a blog post, and given that,...

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I’ve been yearning for roast chicken for ages. I I’ve been yearning for roast chicken for ages. It’s still not really cool enough but here it is. Free range from Ugo the butcher and salting while I do my Zoom talk before going in the oven with sage & lemon. #saturdaynight
Here’s Piranesi’s engraving of the Pantheon fr Here’s Piranesi’s engraving of the Pantheon from the exhibition yesterday at Palazzo Cini in Venice. The Pantheon features heavily in this evening’s Field of Mars online talk. It’s at 7pm Rome time (CET): a meander through the history of the area’s ancient monuments, and a glimpse of the rich palimpsest of the churches and fountains that sit on top of it all, amid cobbled streets. DM/email to join. For more info see link in bio.
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