Now that the clocks have gone back the winter film-on-a-sofa season is officially open. I rummaged around and realise that I have far too many DVDs.
Month: October 2017
Pines & Needles
Baroque around the Clock
The Last Stuarts
Tosca
Romanesque & Renaissance
James Lees-Milne fast-forwards from Early Christian (Santa Constanza) to Romanesque; Santa Maria in Cosmedin. It was built in 782 on the site of a granary and grain market. Astonishingly the church has two reminders of its mercantile past: some of the columns are incorporated into the walls and two grain measures are preserved in niches… Continue reading Romanesque & Renaissance
Two Churches and some other stuff
Roman Holiday
The picture is a detail of Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino by Turner. He had been painting Rome for twenty years and this was his last picture of the city, completed in 1839. It was sold by Sotheby’s in 2010 for £29.7 million – a record for a Turner – to the Getty Museum. But… Continue reading Roman Holiday