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Shaking off the Middle Ages: the Castiglione Chapel at San Clemente

Shaking off the Middle Ages: the Castiglione Chapel at San Clemente

Art History, Caelian, Churches, Early Renaissance, Fresco, Late Medieval, Late Medieval Art, Medieval Art, Rome

Tweet On Monday morning I was exploring underground sites on the Caelian Hill with a charming couple from California. We started off a stone’s throw from the Colosseum at the church of San Clemente where layer upon layer of the city’s history can be explored; a...

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What’s that you say? A tour? With actual people? What’s that you say? A tour? With actual people?!?
The Mausoleum of Helena, mother of Constantine. Th The Mausoleum of Helena, mother of Constantine. The first pilgrim. Presepe still going strong.
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Next week’s new talk is called “All Roads lead Next week’s new talk is called “All Roads lead to Rome: Pilgrims and the Urbe”. So I’m trawling pilgrim spots. This is the church by what was once the largest plague hospital in Europe, along the via Francigena.
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