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"A Chubbier Minerva", or welcome to my Substack.
“Quelli col solo ingegno, separata ogni matera, mesurano le forme delle cose.
Jan 11, 2022
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Agnes Crawford
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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.
May 31
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Agnes Crawford
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Bernini and the Barberini, an exhibition
Part 2: Non Plus Ultra, the pinnacle of the early Baroque at Saint Peter's Basilica
May 31
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Agnes Crawford
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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…
May 15
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Agnes Crawford
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May's Postcard from Rome
A year ago today preparations were being made for the conclave which would begin on the seventh of May.
May 6
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Agnes Crawford
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Some of my favourite views of Rome
Mar 31
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XXIV: Nostalgia Canaglia, Romina Power & Al Bano, 1986
Jul 26, 2025
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Rome wasn't built in a day: the extraordinary new Colosseum-Fori Imperial Metro station
Jan 20
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Agnes Crawford
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From Troy to Tomb Raiders: The Extraordinary Life of the Euphronios Krater
Jun 23, 2025
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Apr 30
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Bernini and the Barberini, an exhibition
Part I: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Apr 29
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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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April's Postcard from Rome
On Maundy Thursday, between tours and the pre-Paschal purchasing of suitably seasonal comestibles, I dropped by the library of the Senate of the…
Apr 7
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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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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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Constantine, the threat of the "Stupor Mundi", and thirteenth century spin: The Oratory of Saint Sylvester on the Caelian Hill
All photos taken at Ss Quattro Coronati, March 2026
Mar 19
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March's Monthly Postcard from Rome (and Tuscia)
Over the last week I was showing a charming band of folk around Tuscia, our exploring interspersed with talks with lots of pictures, for Learn Italy…
Mar 9
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The Amphitheatre of Londinium
Feb 22
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