Category Archives: Italy

Flavinus, Easter, and Power

Posted on July 10, 2018 by

A note to my Sewanee-in-England students in Hexham, where we are all exhausted after climbing around Housesteads fort, as I had with my sons 6 years ago. Alas, Hexham Abbey opens at 9:30 AM but we must be on the … Continue reading →

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The Backstory to the SAS Reredos

Posted on June 15, 2018 by

Earlier this year, I wondered about the reredos in the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee school chapel, discovering that it was a copy of the Demidoff Altarpiece, now in National Gallery, London, but originally made by Carlo Crivelli for the church of San Domenico in … Continue reading →

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Catching Up With Brother Benedict

Posted on February 29, 2016 by

Postscript, October 30, 2016. “The Basilica of St. Benedict is destroyed, flattened by most recent earthquake.” From the Twitter account of the monks of Norcia. A tragic day. Postscript, August 24, 2016. The 6.2 earthquake in central Italy last night … Continue reading →

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Protected: A Flavian Lady in Chattanooga

Posted on February 2, 2016 by

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Protected: Behold the (Other) Man! Looking for Pilate 2: Naples, Palazzo Pitti

Posted on August 29, 2015 by

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Facing Demons in Etruria

Posted on August 9, 2015 by

Out to Fiumcino airport I went, thinking it would be easier to deal with a car rental there and get on to the E80 to Cerveteri and Tarquinia to look at the Etruscan tombs. Alas, Avis at FCO was an … Continue reading →

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The Most Dantean Thing I Saw in Florence

Posted on August 3, 2015 by

… was not Dante’s house, although I admired that it was on Via Dante Aligheri, and appreciated that the quotations from the Commedia carved in stone and set into the nearby buildings. Inside the Casa is a Museo that, at … Continue reading →

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