Understanding Rome

Just a few glimpses from today’s tour (which is, if I say so myself, a very good tour): Delights of Subiaco, an excellent luncheon among limestone mountains, plus a foray to see quite the finest Nilotic mosaic on the way home, all laid on just for us. It is, as they say, a tough job…

I’m a big fan of the eighteenth century penchant for a scrapbook aesthetic in museum displays. The Galleria Borghese looked like this today

A glimpse of the inestimable Antoniazzo Romano’s glorious Annunciation at Santa Maria sopra Minerva on this morning’s meander through the Field of Mars

Details of exquisitely timeless tenderness, almost overwhelming in their humanity, at the excellent Giotto show

A sunny Sunday morning in May amid the somnolent ruins of Ostia Antica is quite the nicest way to spend a few hours. Featuring excellent floors and glorious wild flowers. (And not a soul about)

More successful downpour dodging under mutable skies on today’s tours!

Quiet corners and views of the glorious palimpsest of the Theatre of Marcellus from this morning’s tour from the Campidoglio to the Colosseum

Glimpses of just some of the things I saw on today’s downpour-dodging tours. Twenty thousand steps, twenty-seven (ish) centuries

The last of the azaleas on the Spanish Steps this morning, especially for my mama .crawford2017 ! 🌸🌺❤️

Strong Ozymandias energy under moody skies this afternoon