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“Quelli col solo ingegno, separata ogni matera, mesurano le forme delle cose.
 • Agnes Crawford
Amor Vincit Omnia, Caravaggio (briefly) on Manchester Square
During my Christmas trip to London I made a foray on Saturday morning to one of my favourite museums, the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square.
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A Festive Postcard from Rome
A battery of festive Roman photos, no paywall so please share with anyone who might like some Roman festivity as 2025 draws to a close!
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Vespa Tunes XXVII: Christmas with the Yours, Elio e le Storie Tese, 1995
There is an Italian musical genre which has no real translation, rock demenziale. Coined in the late seventies by the singer/songwriter/comic/disc…
 • Agnes Crawford
Rus in Urbe V: the Caelian Hill
Part I: From the Archeological Park via Ss Giovanni e Paolo and the Roman Houses to Villa Celimontana
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Vespa Tunes XXIV: Nostalgia Canaglia, Romina Power & Al Bano, 1986
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A Wander through Ostia Antica, part 1
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From Troy to Tomb Raiders: The Extraordinary Life of the Euphronios Krater
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"The Best Picture in the World": one of my favourite paintings, and the serendipitous tale of how it survived the Second World War
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December's Postcard from Rome
I’ll be doing a live-streamed Christmas walk on 21 December, info and how to join is at the end!
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Pharaonic Ambitions: Obelisks in Rome
I: The Lateran Obelisk
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Some of my favourite views of Rome
11: Madonna del Parto
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1350: The Jubilee without a Pope
1350.
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November's Postcard from Rome
The Pinacoteca of the Vatican Museums—Giotto and Caravaggio; Gentile da Fabriano and Crivelli; Bellini and Titian; an unfinished Leonardo; an…
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Bessarion, the Flagellation, and the Fall of Constantinople
In my most recent monthly newsletter I mentioned that the Piero della Francesca lecture trip I led last month took us on a foray to the palace of “Duke…
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Vespa Tunes XXVI: Extraterrestre, Eugenio Finardi, 1978
Occasionally I find myself Vespa-ing through Rome before dawn to take folk on a very early and totally private visit of the Vatican Museums and the…
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Mithras and Mithraism: San Clemente, Ostia Antica, and London
A languid stone’s throw from the Colosseum, under both the twelfth century church of San Clemente and the fourth century basilica which lies beneath…
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October's Monthly Postcard from Rome
When I was twenty-one years old, at the tail-end of the last millennium, the dissertation I wrote for my degree in Architectural History at Edinburgh…
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