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"A Chubbier Minerva", or welcome to my Substack.
“Quelli col solo ingegno, separata ogni matera, mesurano le forme delle cose.
Jan 11, 2022
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Agnes Crawford
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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…
3 hrs ago
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Agnes Crawford
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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…
Oct 22
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Agnes Crawford
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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…
Oct 19
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Agnes Crawford
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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…
Oct 8
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XXIV: Nostalgia Canaglia, Romina Power & Al Bano, 1986
Jul 26
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Agnes Crawford
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A Wander through Ostia Antica, part 1
Aug 26
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Agnes Crawford
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From Troy to Tomb Raiders: The Extraordinary Life of the Euphronios Krater
Jun 23
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Agnes Crawford
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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
Jul 21
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Some of my favourite views of Rome
10: via della Madonna dei Monti
Sep 30
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A Wander through Ostia Antica, part 2
From the Theatre to the Forum
Sep 20
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Agnes Crawford
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The Devil's Chair, or the tomb of (perhaps) Hadrian's freedman
As I have mentioned elsewhere I very much like combining errands with a spot of antiquity.
Sep 17
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Agnes Crawford
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September's Postcard from Rome
In this second week of September cloudy skies and storms are trying, not entirely successfully, to sweep away the heat of summer leaving the air heavy…
Sep 10
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Agnes Crawford
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A Podcast about Rome: Episode 27. The Sarcophagus of Sextus Varius Marcellus, and the Roses of Heliogabalus
Cruel, extravagant, sexually omnivorous, and gender fluid: the brief reign of the emperor Elagabalus has given rise to many a colourful tale.
Sep 2
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A Wander through Ostia Antica, part 1
From the via Ostiense to the Theatre
Aug 26
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Agnes Crawford
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Admin and Aqueducts; or Tor Sapienza, pensavo peggio
I’m a big fan of turning tiresome admin into a jaunt, and in Rome it’s really not hard: amazing things lurk in the unlikeliest places.
Aug 17
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XXV: Un Estate Italiana, Gianna Nannini & Edoardo Bennato, 1989
A visit this week to the super Burri Collection in the former tobacco drying sheds outside his home town of Città di Castello reminded me of the first…
Aug 10
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August's Postcard from (not quite) Rome
I love the slightly sticky languid torpor of August in Italy.
Aug 7
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