Agnes Crawford

Twenty-five years ago today I moved to Rome for, perhaps I thought, six months. This is about that (no paywall) understandingrome.substack.com/p/a-quarter-of…

@Benpagelondon @bombaylychee thanks!

Stravinsky's Coffin and the Uncertain Seminarian - Understanding Rome understandingrome.com/2021/04/12/str… via @understandrome one for @bombaylychee

@lucyinglis also taking a look here for first time in forever, now following you at the Other Place! xx

Long time off comms on here. I miss you all but life has been insane, let alone the world news. Please say hello if you would still like to be in touch.

@antmoose @VillaGiuliaRm @museitaliani @chapps @caputmundiHeidi @rogueclassicist @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @HawkeJon @aniketos0 @arakhnos Auguri!

For a #ReliefWednesday which is also my birthday, I offer you one of the great beauties of #Etruscan art, the #Apollo of the #Scasato, from #FaleriiVeteres, today's #CivitaCastellana, but today basking in the admiration of visitors in #Rome.

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/unders…

Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters. understandingrome.substack.com/p/spring-exhib…

"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.

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.

I looked at Facebook for the first time in a while, Newsfeed is a very 1984 kind of word isn't it?

@EnglishHeritage 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

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/2025/03/11/ano…

Your friendly reminder that the 1960 Olympic Graeco-Roman wrestling was held in the Basilica of Maxentius.

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.com/p/marchs-postc…

@marcooth this is what AI is for

Mariah Carey, Mr Blobby and Captain Tom eating toasted sandwiches.

@ChezBruce thanks! Ciao to you both from Rome!

@understandrome Excellent memories of you guiding Anna and me expertly through here a couple of years ago. Rather more peeps then than in this pic!

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.com/p/raphaels-tap…

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.com/p/februarys-po…