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The Birth of Christian Art: The Basilica of Saints Cosmas & Damian

Art History, Early Christian art, Roman Forum

Tweet The verdigris door in the photo above belongs to a temple in the Roman Forum, traditionally said to have been dedicated to Romulus, the infant son of the Emperor Maxentius. About a century after the mosaics at Santa Pudenziana (about which I spoke in my last...

Roman Christian-ness or Christian Roman-ness? The Apse Mosaics of Santa Pudenziana

Art History, Early Christian art, Esquiline, Rome

Tweet I have recently been in a mosaic phase, as mentioned in my last post. My mosaic phases are cyclical – all that glittering gold in the gloaming is so wonderfully atmospheric – but this one began last month when watching a BBC documentary about the...

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Bessarion, Rome

Tweet I was delighted to see the handful of words Conde Nast Traveller had asked me for in this month’s edition. Lodged between Rome’s former mayor, Walter Veltroni, and Rome’s only three star Michelin chef, Heinz Beck. Who was in turn just above...

Illustrious Company.

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Tweet I was delighted to see the handful of words Conde Nast Traveller had asked me for in this month’s edition. Lodged between Rome’s former mayor, Walter Veltroni, and Rome’s only three star Michelin chef, Heinz Beck. Who was in turn just above...

Cosmati Work and the Conservation of Matter.

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Tweet Last Friday afternoon I was pootling around the Capitoline Museums, which is the kind of thing guides do on a free off-season afternoon (in case you wondered), when I stumbled upon a piece I’d entirely forgotten was there. A section of a dismantled pulpit...

The Birth of Christian Art: The Basilica of Saints Cosmas & Damian

Roman Christian-ness or Christian Roman-ness? The Apse Mosaics of Santa Pudenziana

Illustrious Company

Illustrious Company.

Cosmati Work and the Conservation of Matter.

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