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Week 12 – Glittering mosaics and ruins: almost normal.

Week 12 – Glittering mosaics and ruins: almost normal.

Archeology, Palatine Hill, Roman Forum, Rus in urbe

Tweet This afternoon I zipped over to the fourth century Mausoleum of Constantina (aka the church of Santa Costanza about which I wrote this) to get some better photos of the mosaics for this week’s talk: the Roman-ness of Christian Art: A Look at Medieval Church...
From Virgil to Vitruvius: some thoughts on the House of Augustus.

From Virgil to Vitruvius: some thoughts on the House of Augustus.

Aeneas, Aeneid, Archeology, Architecture, Art History, Augustus, Empire, Legend, Origins, Palatine Hill, Roman Art, Roman Painting, Rome, Virgil

Tweet This year is a big anniversary for all things Augustus; the two thousandth anniversary of the death of the first Emperor of Rome. The exploitation of art, religion, legend, history, poetry, dodgy family trees, you name it, in the relentlessly sophisticated...
Rus in urbe – a bucolic stroll across the Palatine

Rus in urbe – a bucolic stroll across the Palatine

Aeneas, Aeneid, Archeology, Architecture, Art History, Augustus, Empire, Legend, Origins, Palatine Hill, Roman Art, Roman Forum, Roman Painting, Rome

Tweet This year December is treating Rome very well indeed. It has been largely dry, as warm as one can hope for, and the rich blue sky sets everything off wonderfully.   On Monday I took myself off to the Palatine Hill for a wander amid the ruins in the winter...

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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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