The Sistine Chapel: Botticelli vs Michelangelo
The Sistine chapel is one of the greatest artistic achievements in the world. Everyone knows it which is why the queues to get into the Vatican Museum are so long. Everyone is excited when they […]
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The Raphael Rooms at the Vatican
Everyone knows about the Sistine chapel but fewer people have heard about the Raphael Stanze. The decoration of these four rooms that bear the great artist’s name was started twenty years after the Sistine chapel […]
Does one die in Rome or at Rome? Shelley, Keats and the cemetery
The Protestant cemetery in Rome is a calm, shady area away from the traffic and noise of Rome. When you come out of the tube station at Pyramide near Porta San Paolo you will see […]
Rome’s Capitoline museums – Highlights part 2
Part 2 of our survey of the treasures in Rome’s Capitoline museums. Statues are the biggest draw in the collection, although there is an art gallery on the top floor of the Palazzo dei Conservatori. […]