Understanding Rome's Newsletter

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!

Dec 10 • Agnes Crawford

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November 2025

Pharaonic Ambitions: Obelisks in Rome

I: The Lateran Obelisk

Nov 30 • Agnes Crawford

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Some of my favourite views of Rome

11: Madonna del Parto

Nov 24 • Agnes Crawford

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1350: The Jubilee without a Pope

1350.

Nov 19 • Agnes Crawford

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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…

Nov 12 • Agnes Crawford

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October 2025

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…

Oct 31 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Agnes Crawford

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September 2025

Some of my favourite views of Rome

10: via della Madonna dei Monti

Sep 30 • Agnes Crawford

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A Wander through Ostia Antica, part 2

From the Theatre to the Forum

Sep 20 • 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 • Agnes Crawford

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