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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
La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: Arte, Storia e vite di donne nel Rinascimento Fiorentino, Palazzo Venezia, until...
June's Postcard from Rome
Last Tuesday Italy celebrated the Festa della Repubblica, a national public holiday commemorating the referendum held on 2 June 1946. The vote abolished the monarchy, which had behaved with rather less than noblesse oblige during the Second...
Vespa Tunes XXVIII: Ma Come Fanno I Marinai, Lucio Dalla & Francesco De Gregori, 1978
I’ve found myself humming this song umpteen times over the past week. On various visits to the Colosseum in recent days I, and an assortment of the ineffably charming folk I’ve been showing around, have admired the Vigili del Fuoco practisi...
Bernini and the Barberini, an exhibition
Part 2: Non Plus Ultra, the pinnacle of the early Baroque at Saint Peter's Basilica
In my first post about the super Bernini exhibition at Palazzo Barberini, I looked at the first room of the show which concerns itself with Bernini’s burge...
Genius Loci: Tufo and the Tomb of the Scipios
A couple of weeks ago, and by special request, I took folk to the Tomb of the Scipios on the via di porta San Sebastiano, a stretch of the Appian Way just within the ancient city walls lined with high walls and at this time of year dripping...
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