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Eclectic Exoticism and Funerary Bling: The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius

Eclectic Exoticism and Funerary Bling: The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius

Archeology, Architecture, Augustus, Empire

Tweet If you find yourself entering Rome by the via Ostiense, you might be surprised to see a large white marble pyramid, not perhaps a form one associates with the city. It certainly struck Thomas Hardy, and in his poem Rome at the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves...
Breaking rules and squeezing pediments: San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Breaking rules and squeezing pediments: San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Architecture, Baroque, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet I have recently been in something of a Baroque phase, as my previous posts on the Gesù, and this piece at arttrav on Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale suggest. Just a stone’s throw from Sant’Andrea, is San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, one of my favourite Roman churches....
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