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Andrea Pozzo's Baroque Frescoes in the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome, Late 17th Century
It is not the Sistine Chapel, but there are no queues here either. The Baroque frescoes in the Jesuit church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome, painted by Andrea Pozzo at the end of the 17th century, are devoted to the divine light which, through the teaching of the Church,
Museums · Observations · People · Rome · Humour
Byron's Carnival Mask of February 1820 Kept in the John Keats Museum in Rome
Can you picture this horror in place of the face of so soulful and refined a Byron? The poet wore this frightening mask to a carnival in February 1820. It once had hair and a beard, which have not survived to our day, though they probably lent some small adornment
Faith · Art · Rome · Ethnography
Wooden Nativity Scene from Sutrio Installed in Saint Peter's Square
This year's Christmas crib for Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican was made in the northern Italian village of Sutrio, in the province of Udine. All the figures are made entirely of wood, and the hemisphere above them symbolises the grotto in which the Holy Family
Faith · People · Rome
Benedict XVI, 95, who abdicated in 2013, photographed in the Vatican gardens
The 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI strolling through the Vatican Gardens, in one of his most recent photographs. As you can see from this picture from the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation, Benedict, though very frail, is nonetheless in tolerable health for a man of his venerable age. Let me
Faith · Society · Rome
The Catholic Church absolved the Jews of guilt for the Crucifixion of Christ only in 1965
On 28 October 1965 Pope Paul VI promulgated a document known as the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions". It repealed the declaration of the collective guilt of the entire Jewish people made by Pope Innocent III 760 years earlier
Aristocracy · Architecture · Mores · Rome
Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of m
Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of modernism on the shore of the Tyrrhenian
NB! · Coming Up · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
The exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii" at the Great Palaestra runs until 15 January 2023
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
Ancient Sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica on Display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport
Ancient sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica have gone on display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport. A capital idea for a museum partnership!
NB! · Faith · Art · Rome
The Separation of Light from Darkness
The Separation of Light from Darkness. Fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512, Michelangelo Buonarroti
NB! · Coming Up · Faith · Cinema · Rome
Every evening from 2 to 16 October, a film about the life and faith of the Apostle Peter will be projected onto the façade of St Peter's Basilica in Rome
NB! · The East · Art · People · Rome