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29/02/2024

St. Peter's Basilica
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28/02/2024

How to visit the Colosseum?
What is the best way to walk inside?
What kind of tickets do you need?
How to reach the Arena?
With the full experience ticket!
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23/04/2023

Gallery of Maps... Where is it?
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09/10/2022

The Colosseum in all its splendour

26/07/2022

We're used to think about Roman monuments in white. They were colored and this is a reconstruction that gives us a perfect idea of how they looked like.
The Ara Pacis had a strong political propaganda of the time of Augustus (the first emperor) and here you can admire its splendor.

19/02/2022

Those three corinthian colomns belong to the Temple of the Dioscuri which are divine Twins Castor and Pollux who according ti legend appeared to the dictator Aulus Postumius before the decisive battle against latin enemies. The Temple was dwdicated in 484 BC and the divine Twins became protectors of the knight class. The Temple was a Tuscan-type with three cells and a deep pronaos. Podium and walls are in blocks of square work of Cappellaccio.

17/08/2021

🖼️Conversion of Saul.Odescalchi collection.
This version of the Conversion of Saul was executed for the chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo in Cerasi chapel.
Why was It substituted?
👩‍🏫We have many informations about this painting thanks to the contract between Tiberio Cerasi and Caravaggio,which records that two cypress panels had to be used in 1600: One for the Conversion and one for the Crucifixion. The contract offered 400 golden florins reward. We don't exactly know why Caravaggio made another Conversion (the One today exposed in Santa Maria del Popolo) but this version was substituted, why?
My opinion Is that Tiberio Cerasi who, during his life was a sinner, wanted to be represented with humilitas : the parallel with the Apostle had to stress his redemption as a release from sin and the best version Is the latter.
Whether this Is true or not, I think the Odescalchi version has a strong power, more spiritual and manieristic.
Let's enjoy It.

04/08/2021

Santa Pudenziana mosaic. Let's speculate about this mosaic: why are the personages located this way?Christians had problems with the representation of real death on the cross, infact the cross here has become a triumphal symbol, not a tool of torture: it's made up by a precious material with precious stones.What’s representing on the mosaic?it’s representing the triumphal idea of the church and the idea of Jesus Christ as an authority in the world.

09/07/2021

The she-wolf represents the symbol of Rome. Sistus IV donated 100 Golden florins to the Conservators in order to transfer the Lupa in the Capitoline hill: at that time the statue hadn't the twins yet. Still today is very hard to put the right datation to the statue,some scholars think It's dated back to 5th century BC,others put It in the Middle ages.