I’ll be doing a live-streamed Christmas walk on 21 December, info and how to join is at the end!

I’ll be doing a live-streamed Christmas walk on 21 December, info and how to join is at the end!

The mythological frescoes painted by Annibale Carracci at the Farnese family's Roman palace are legendary in their own right, writes Agnes Crawford

When I was twenty-one years old, at the tail-end of the last millennium, the dissertation I wrote for my degree in Architectural History at Edinburgh University was called “Piero della Francesca: Arch...

Today is the anniversary of the breaching of the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia, walls which had served as defences of the city for sixteen centuries.

Today is the anniversary of the breaching of the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia, walls which had served as defences of the city for sixteen centuries.

As I have mentioned elsewhere I very much like combining errands with a spot of antiquity.

In this second week of September cloudy skies and storms are trying, not entirely successfully, to sweep away the heat of summer leaving the air heavy, claustrophobic, and muggy.

In this second week of September cloudy skies and storms are trying, not entirely successfully, to sweep away the heat of summer leaving the air heavy, claustrophobic, and muggy.

From the via Ostiense to the Theatre

FORT WORTH, TX— The Kimbell Art Museum announced today that it will display Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes as a Guest of Honor on loan from the

From the via Ostiense to the Theatre

Two weeks ago it was Ferragosto, the most holiday-ish of all Italian public holidays.

I love the slightly sticky languid torpor of August in Italy.

I love the slightly sticky languid torpor of August in Italy.

Twenty-five years ago I moved into a flat-share on via della Pelliccia in Trastevere.

4: Clivo di Scauro

Twenty-five years ago I moved into a flat-share on via della Pelliccia in Trastevere.

In 1925 Aldous Huxley wrote an essay called “The Greatest Picture” in his book Along the Road, Notes and Essays of a Tourist. It begins: