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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...
A spot of magic at the lights – San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

A spot of magic at the lights – San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Architecture, Art History, Baroque, Baroque Rome tour, Borromini, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet On my way home from yesterday afternoon’s tour of the Galleria Borghese (it’s glorious, go!), I scootered up via delle Quattro Fontane and past the Palazzo Barberini to the tight junction with via del Quirinale, to the only traffic light I always...
Smoke and Mirrors: Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa

Smoke and Mirrors: Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa

Art History, Baroque, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet In February I wrote a couple of posts about the church of the Gesù, and how the Baroque made bombastic use of dramatic “special effects” to wow the faithful (here and here). In the 1600s art was one of the many tools used in drawing them ever closer to the Roman...
Smoke and Mirrors: Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa

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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The Mausoleum of Helena, mother of Constantine. Th The Mausoleum of Helena, mother of Constantine. The first pilgrim. Presepe still going strong.
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Next week’s new talk is called “All Roads lead Next week’s new talk is called “All Roads lead to Rome: Pilgrims and the Urbe”. So I’m trawling pilgrim spots. This is the church by what was once the largest plague hospital in Europe, along the via Francigena.
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