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Some of my favourite views of Rome
12: the apodyterium of the Baths of Caracalla
Mar 31
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Agnes Crawford
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A newly accessible Etruscan treasure: The François Tomb at Villa Giulia
All photographs taken in July 2026 unless otherwise specified
Jul 26
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Agnes Crawford
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A Vermeer in Rome: The Woman Reading a Letter at Palazzo Barberini
At present there is an exquisite Vermeer on display in Rome, on loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and gleaming in the quietly atmospheric gloom of…
Jul 29
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Agnes Crawford
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Piero di Cosimo's Santa Maria Maddalena, and the ineffable appeal of material history
La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: Arte, Storia e vite di donne nel Rinascimento Fiorentino, Palazzo Venezia, until 5 July 2026
Jun 22
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XXIV: Nostalgia Canaglia, Romina Power & Al Bano, 1986
Twenty-five years ago I moved into a flat-share on via della Pelliccia in Trastevere.
Jul 26, 2025
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Agnes Crawford
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From Troy to Tomb Raiders: The Extraordinary Life of the Euphronios Krater
In the quiet town of Cerveteri, forty minutes drive or so north-west of Rome where I like to take people for Etruscan-themed jaunts taking in ancient…
Jun 23, 2025
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Agnes Crawford
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Rome wasn't built in a day: the extraordinary new Colosseum-Fori Imperial Metro station
As the saying goes “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, and indeed it wasn’t.
Jan 20
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Agnes Crawford
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A Sicilian smile: Antonello da Messina's Annunciate Virgin at Palermo
Today is the feast of the Annunciation, the subject of some of my favourite paintings.
Mar 25
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Agnes Crawford
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Caravaggio in Syracuse: the Burial of St Lucy, 1608
I spent quite a lot of last year thinking about Caravaggio, and took folk around the major exhibition at Palazzo Barberini on several occasions.
Jan 29
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Agnes Crawford
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Piazza del Campidoglio: Michelangelo, Marcus Aurelius, and the New Rome
This week the scaffolding is finally coming down from Michelangelo’s splendid facade of the Palazzo dei Senatori on the Capitoline Hill, which had me…
Apr 17
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Agnes Crawford
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A Quarter of a Century in Rome
Twenty-five years ago today, on the last Saturday of the first month of a shiny new millennium, I moved to Italy for perhaps six months.
Jan 29, 2025
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Agnes Crawford
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Soave Mestizia: Sweet Melancholy and the "ideal" Medieval cloister
All photographs taken at the complex of the Santi Quattro Coronati, unless otherwise specified
Feb 4
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Agnes Crawford
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