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A Festive Postcard from Rome

Giotto, Cardinal Stefaneschi, and the immersive special effects of the late Middle Ages.

My favourite Roman nativity scene on the 800th anniversary of the presepe.

December's Monthly Newsletter

Some of my favourite views of Rome

A Podcast about Rome. Episode 15: The Domus Tiberiana

Hot springs and Hopefulness: the profound humanity of the bronzes of the sanctuary at San Casciano

Vespa Tunes XVII: Venezia - Istanbul, Franco Battiato, 1980

November's Monthly Newsletter

Jonah, the lynchpin of the Sistine Chapel

Florence, October 2020; or the Consolations of History.

Vespa Tunes XVI: Per le strade di Roma, Francesco de Gregori, 2006

Stones of Rome IV

October's Monthly Newsletter

Some of my favourite views of Rome

A Podcast about Rome. Episode 14. Paranoia and Porphyry: Domitian and the Domus Flavia on the Palatine Hill

Vespa Tunes XV: Il Negozio di Antiquariato, Niccolò Fabi, 2003

September's Monthly Newsletter

EUR: De Chirico Writ Large

San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum

August's Monthly Newsletter

Vespa Tunes XIV: Che Calore, Pino Daniele, 1977

Never Far from Rome I

A Podcast about Rome. Episode 13: The Arch of Titus

July's Monthly Newsletter

Paradise Regained: The Painted Garden of Livia at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

Heavens Above! The Triumph of Divine Providence at Palazzo Barberini.

June's Monthly Newsletter

Vespa Tunes XIII: Venezia, Francesco Guccini, 1981

Thoughts on Time and Raphael's Transfiguration

A Podcast About Rome. Episode 12: The Colosseum.

May's Monthly Newsletter

Santa Costanza on the via Nomentana: A Temporal Kaleidoscope on the Cusp of Christendom

Vespa Tunes XII : Dolce Enrico, Antonello Venditti, 1991.

A Podcast About Rome. Episode 11: Nero's Golden House.

Happy Birthday Rome!

Rus in Urbe IV: the Palatine Hill

Vespa Tunes XI: Grazie Roma, Antonello Venditti, 1983.

April's Monthly Newsletter

A Podcast about Rome. Episode 10: Insouciant exoticism and engineering triumph - Porta Maggiore and the Claudian Aqueduct.

Vespa Tunes X: I Giardini di Marzo, Lucio Battisti,

Arte Liberata 1937-1947: Masterpieces Saved from War.

March's Monthly Newsletter

A Podcast about Rome. Episode 9: The Ships of Caligula at Lake Nemi.

Recycling Beauty at Fondazione Prada. Some thoughts, and photographs.

Raphael's tapestries in the Sistine Chapel

February's Monthly Newsletter

Quartieri II: Testaccio

That time I accidentally emigrated.

Vespa Tunes IX - Buonanotte all'Italia, Luciano Ligabue, 2007.

Rus in Urbe III

A Podcast about Rome. Part 8: The Ara Pacis Augustae

Morto un papa non se ne fa un altro

January's Monthly Newsletter