Churches, Coronavirus, Early Christian art, Uncategorized
Tweet Day forty-two, 42, for tea too. If it is indeed the answer, I feel I’ve started losing sight of the question. Nevertheless people who have no choice are keeping their heads, and the situation seems to continue to improve. There were twenty fewer cases than...
Archeology, Architecture, Art History, Churches, Early Christian art
Tweet The first version of this post was written for the fabulous, but now sadly defunct, 3 Pipe Problem blog. It was run by the fearsomely energetic Hasan Nayazi who died suddenly and prematurely last year. I met him in person once, on his only visit to Rome two...
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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...
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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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