@understandrome

Qualified Rome guide specialising in personalised tours. 23 years experience. Native Londoner, naturalised Roman. (Instagram: understandingrome)

 Rome, Italy
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Joined April 2010
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Twenty-five years ago today I moved to Rome for, perhaps I thought, six months. This is about that (no paywall) understandingrome.substack.c…
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Stravinsky's Coffin and the Uncertain Seminarian - Understanding Rome understandingrome.com/2021/0… via @understandrome one for @bombaylychee

Stravinsky’s Coffin and the Uncertain Seminarian

A couple of weekends ago La Repubblica published an excellent article (in Italian, paywall) about Igor Stravinsky’s funeral which took place fifty years ago this week, on 15 April 1971. Stravinsky...

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Here's today's Roman blue sky to say I'm now starting anew at the other place. Come and say hi! bsky.app/profile/understandi…
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Here's today's Roman blue sky to say I'm now starting anew at the other place. Come and say hi! bsky.app/profile/understandi…
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Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters. understandingrome.substack.c…
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Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters. understandingrome.substack.c…
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Italy in US
@ItalyinUS17 Mar 2025
"Stunningly and unexpected," writes the @Suntimes about this new Chicago exhibition at @artinstitutechi co-organized with Rome-based Torlonia Foundation. It is the first time works from the private holding are being shown in North America.
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@Suntimes15 Mar 2025
The Art Institute of Chicago is hosting its first ancient Roman sculpture exhibition in 44 years, "Myth and Marble." Featuring nearly 60 works from the Torlonia Collection making their North American debut. trib.al/CLeejr4

Art Institute showcases ancient Roman sculptures in unprecedented 'Myth and Marble' exhibit

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art Institute and Rome-based Torlonia Foundation, it is the first time works...

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Sguardi senza tempo: the extraordinary, moving, immediate, human beauty of glances that pierce four centuries in an instant. I dropped in on the new Caravaggio show at Palazzo Barberini. It is, of course, excellent. Substack post incoming for subscribers in the next few days.
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I looked at Facebook for the first time in a while, Newsfeed is a very 1984 kind of word isn't it?
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Delighted to see a Blue Plaque for Agnes and Rhoda Garrett the first women to run a professional interior design business. You can hear about them in our talk last month as part of our current online lecture series: bit.ly/4jHdNsj

Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, 'House Decorators' 1874–1905 by Elizabeth Crawford

Elizabeth Crawford discusses the first women to run a professional interior design business.

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Number 2 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, is now graced with 2 Blue Plaques - one for Millicent Fawcett and now one for her sister, Agnes, and cousin, Rhoda. Heroines. womanandhersphere.com/2025/0…

Another Blue Plaque for Enterprising Women: Rhoda and Agnes Garrett Commemorated

I am delighted to report that two more of my ‘Enterprising Women’ have just been recognised with an English Heritage Blue Plaque. For the work of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett is now highligh…

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Your friendly reminder that the 1960 Olympic Graeco-Roman wrestling was held in the Basilica of Maxentius.
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March's (free) monthly newsletter: a couple of thoughts on Neorealist cinema, and info on a Roman Cinema themed jaunt with @racheleats in May understandingrome.substack.c…
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Five years ago, and for one week only, the tapestries Raphael designed for the Sistine Chapel were hung there for the first time in four centuries. On an after-hours visit I had permission to take photographs. There are lots of them here. understandingrome.substack.c…
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Five years ago, and for one week only, the tapestries Raphael designed for the Sistine Chapel were hung there for the first time in four centuries. On an after-hours visit I had permission to take photographs. There are lots of them here. understandingrome.substack.c…
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A putto waterskiing on a crab features in my latest (free) newsletter. It’s about two houses at Pompeii, old money discretion versus new money bling. You can guess which is the more fun. understandingrome.substack.c…
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A putto waterskiing on a crab features in my latest (free) newsletter. It’s about two houses at Pompeii, old money discretion versus new money bling. You can guess which is the more fun. understandingrome.substack.c…
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Twenty-five years ago today I moved to Rome for, perhaps I thought, six months. This is about that (no paywall) understandingrome.substack.c…
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My latest newsletter is about this photo: glancing light, pharoahs, emperors, and a footballer understandingrome.substack.c…
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My latest newsletter is about this photo: glancing light, pharoahs, emperors, and a footballer understandingrome.substack.c…
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