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Alla Demidova at 33, in Rome
Alla Demidova at 33, in Rome. Today this beauty turned 90!
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Pope Leo XIV Receives a Briefing in the Cockpit
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Not All Roads Lead to Rome
In 20 BC the Emperor Augustus set up the Golden Milestone in the Roman Forum, from which distances along all the roads of the empire were symbolically measured. A team of researchers led by Tom Brughmans has analysed this network, which covers some 300,000 kilometres of roads in Europe,
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A world assembly on artificial intelligence and nuclear war has been held in the Vatican
Presumably the padres are watching lifelike scenes of nuclear apocalypse and worldwide drought, caused by the data centres of the AI tech giants, through their VR goggles. The Papal Gardens of Castel Gandolfo welcomed 30 Nobel laureates, representatives of 30 countries, former heads of state, 20 leading AI specialists and
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The Pyramid of Cestius, an ancient Roman mausoleum in Rome, built in 18-12 BC
The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient Roman mausoleum in Rome, built in 18-12 BC. The tomb received the ashes of Gaius Cestius, an influential Roman magistrate and priest. The pyramid is a concrete structure 36 metres high, faced with marble. The Pyramid of Cestius has survived to our
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At the end of September the Vatican Apostolic Library will open AQVA, an exhibition from its new cycle "Catastrophe and Miracle"
At the end of September the Vatican Apostolic Library will open AQVA, an exhibition from its new cycle "Catastrophe and Miracle". The cycle is based on Gaetano Volpi's treatise "On the Passion for Books" of 1756, which lists five threats to the book: water,
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Vatican Museums announce five-year restoration of Raphael's Loggia
This is the first serious cleaning in more than 500 years of the frescoes of the glazed corridor on the second floor of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking the Cortile di San Damaso. The budget for the works is 5.5 million dollars. In addition to restoration, the paintings will be
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Pliny the Elder writes that Caesar the Dictator stretched awnings over the whole Roman Forum and over the Sacred Way, from his own house up to the Capitol, and that the spectacle was judged more wondrous than the gladiatorial combats themselves
Pliny the Elder writes that Caesar the Dictator stretched awnings over the whole Roman Forum and over the Sacred Way, from his own house up to the Capitol, and that the spectacle was judged more wondrous than the gladiatorial combats themselves. Fabric awnings against the sun, vela in Latin, were
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Processional Crucifix painted by an Umbrian artist, 1260–1270
Processional Crucifix painted by an Umbrian artist, 1260–1270. Vatican Pinacoteca
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An outstanding Netherlandish painter and draughtsman of the 15th and 16th centuries
The outstanding Netherlandish painter and draughtsman of the 15th and 16th centuries Jan Gossaert, also known as Mabuse or Johannes Malbodius, travelled to Rome in the autumn of 1508 in the retinue of Philip of Burgundy. Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, had sent Philip as ambassador to Pope
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On 9 July Fendi will show its first couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, who moved from Dior last October
On 9 July Fendi will show its first couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, who moved from Dior last October. The venue is not Paris but Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the GNAM. The gallery building itself is a former seventeenth-century monastery of the
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Pope Leo XIV makes time for tennis every week and explains it by the Augustinian tradition of caring for body and spirit: the Rule of Saint Augustine values good habits
Robert Prevost, while still a cardinal, admitted that he considered himself "quite the amateur" on the court, and regretted that after many years of mission in Peru he had hardly any opportunity to practise. Having moved to Rome, he took up the racket again and, according to the