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Palazzo Massimo alle Terme: the stoicism of the Hellenistic Boxer

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme: the stoicism of the Hellenistic Boxer

Archeology, Art History, Esquiline, Greek Sculpture, National Roman Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet Right by Rome’s Termini central station is one of my favourite museums of ancient Roman art, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (home to these spectacular Roman frescoes). Palazzo Massimo is part of the National Roman Museum which has four locations (can a museum have...
A spot of magic at the lights – San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

A spot of magic at the lights – San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Architecture, Art History, Baroque, Baroque Rome tour, Borromini, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet On my way home from yesterday afternoon’s tour of the Galleria Borghese (it’s glorious, go!), I scootered up via delle Quattro Fontane and past the Palazzo Barberini to the tight junction with via del Quirinale, to the only traffic light I always...
Smoke and Mirrors: Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa

Smoke and Mirrors: Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa

Art History, Baroque, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet In February I wrote a couple of posts about the church of the Gesù, and how the Baroque made bombastic use of dramatic “special effects” to wow the faithful (here and here). In the 1600s art was one of the many tools used in drawing them ever closer to the Roman...
Smoke and Mirrors: Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa

Breaking rules and squeezing pediments: San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Architecture, Baroque, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet I have recently been in something of a Baroque phase, as my previous posts on the Gesù, and this piece at arttrav on Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale suggest. Just a stone’s throw from Sant’Andrea, is San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, one of my favourite Roman churches....

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8am in Rome is 6pm in Sydney. All set for part 4 o 8am in Rome is 6pm in Sydney. All set for part 4 of the second outing for my four part “City of Rome” course for the good folk of @academytravelau. Today we’re going out on a bang with the Baroque! If you’re in the Antipodes have a look at Academy’s Italy week 6-9 April: lots of online events on all things Italian!
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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