I’ve been thinking about Time a great deal recently. It’s a curious business, isn’t it? Perhaps it’s because I’m at the sort of age where it starts moving ever faster, or perhaps because “on this day” memories filtering through social media and photo albums remind of spring lockdowns and curfews—once so entirely all-encompassing, but now distant and diaphanous—which gave it a newly amorphous, malleable, form.
Thanks so much for this posting Agnes. I've been to the Vatican Museums three times, but have not yet made it to this gallery. Your article encourages me (again) to visit all the galleries in that vast institution in which I've not yet set foot. Clearly another item for the bucket list.
Had he lived longer, his wonderful project with his friend Baldassare Castiglione would have left us a very different Rome.
Absolutely! I wrote a post about that too! https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/raphael-a-thwarted-pioneer-of-architectural
Thanks so much for this posting Agnes. I've been to the Vatican Museums three times, but have not yet made it to this gallery. Your article encourages me (again) to visit all the galleries in that vast institution in which I've not yet set foot. Clearly another item for the bucket list.
thanks Jim, there's an inexhaustible amount of things to see there!
Indeed, I ask the same question of Mozart.
Ah, yes! I am musically fairly ignorant but can see that!