Art History, Capitoline Museums, Medieval Art
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...
Best Job in the World, Rome
Tweet It was a great pleasure showing the most gladiatorial (and tallest) group I’ve ever had around the mother of all stadia and the Roman...
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Art History, Centro Storico, Churches, Early Renaissance, Fresco, Rome, Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Tweet A lazy stone’s throw from the Pantheon, the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva takes its name from its position above an ancient temple dedicated to Minerva. It’s my absolute favourite short cut in Rome, enter on Piazza della Minerva and leave by the back...
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