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The Aurelian Wall: Rome’s largest ancient monument, or “one thing too many”

The Aurelian Wall: Rome’s largest ancient monument, or “one thing too many”

Archeology, Architecture, Out of Town, Undervisited Rome museums

Tweet Once having found the Wall I could not forget it, or be unaware of its continuity. Its reemergences into view, out of covering buildings, never are not dramatic: whether in view or not it is there, and shapes one’s sense of the city. – Elizabeth...
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...
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...
The Carafa Chapel, St Thomas Aquinas, and an earnestness of young monks

The Carafa Chapel, St Thomas Aquinas, and an earnestness of young monks

Art History, Centro Storico, Churches, Early Renaissance, Fresco, Relics, Rome

Tweet This week my parents were in town and on Tuesday I was wandering around churches with my pa and Anthony Blunt’s book on Roman Baroque churches. (We did 16 that day, that’s where I get it from…). The last of the day was Santa Maria sopra...

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