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April's Postcard from Rome

Some of my favourite views of Rome

A Sicilian smile: Antonello da Messina's Annunciate Virgin at Palermo

Constantine, the threat of the "Stupor Mundi", and thirteenth century spin: The Oratory of Saint Sylvester on the Caelian Hill

March's Monthly Postcard from Rome (and Tuscia)

Never far from Rome VI

A God from the mud of the Rhône: the bronze Neptune of Lyon on loan to the Museo Barracco

February's Postcard from Rome (& Sicily)

Soave Mestizia: Sweet Melancholy and the "ideal" Medieval cloister

Caravaggio in Syracuse: the Burial of St Lucy, 1608

Rome wasn't built in a day: the extraordinary new Colosseum-Fori Imperial Metro station

The Treasures of the Pharaohs

January's Monthly Postcard from Rome

A Podcast about Rome: Episode 28: The Aqua Alexandrina

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