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Moving Mountains: A geological map of Empire at the Centrale Montemartini.

Moving Mountains: A geological map of Empire at the Centrale Montemartini.

Archeology, Art History, Capitoline Museums, Egypt, Roman Art, Roman sculpture, Rome, Undervisited Rome museums

Tweet A couple of weeks ago I was once again invited to be involved in Context Travel’s admirable series of Tours in the Public Interest. The focus of this year’s series is on museums which are regularly open to the public, but which get far fewer visitors than they...
Hippopotamuses and Lotus flowers: The Nile mosaic at Palestrina

Hippopotamuses and Lotus flowers: The Nile mosaic at Palestrina

Archeology, Architecture, Art History, Egypt, Empire, Out of Town, Palestrina, Roman Art

Tweet Last week a visiting friend and I braved the torrential rain to run an errand in Zagarolo. Our mission accomplished, we stopped for a spot of lunch before meandering to Palestrina. Snaking our way through the medieval streets, in a car as wide as the roads, we...
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...
Paradise regained: the painted garden of Livia at Palazzo Massimo

Paradise regained: the painted garden of Livia at Palazzo Massimo

Archeology, Art History, Augustus, Empire, Esquiline, Fresco, National Roman Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Roman Art, Roman Painting, Rome

Tweet In a city filled with extraordinary works of ancient art, perhaps one of the most breathtaking is one of the least visited and one of my favourites. After visiting the “Monsters” exhibition (excellent, go) at Palazzo Massimo today I went to the top...
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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