Casa Rubboli stands at the base of via Nazionale just before the Markets of Trajan, attached to the 13th-century Colonna tower. The late...

Buon compleanno Roma. Today marks the official 2773rd birthday of the eternal city. Romulus, the first king of Rome, and his twin brother...

The exhibition “Canova Eterna Bellezza” unites over 170 works to celebrate the more than 40 years spent by the artist in the eternal...

Visiting the Musei Capitolini these days is a joy. Although reservations are necessary, the number of visitors is markedly reduced. One...

It has been exciting the past few weeks as museum after museum in Rome reopens. Our first foray was to the Centrale Montemartini, the...

This selection of late 19th/early 20th century Italian tiles demonstrate a range of techniques, from hand-painted to stamped and...

The ruins of ancient Lavinium, the city founded by Aeneas and precursor of Rome are situated in Pratica di Mare. The Museo civico...

Winner of the third edition of the Italian Council (2018), Elisabetta Benassi’s installation “EMPIRE” was displayed at Palazzo Altemps...

The sculptor Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799) was perhaps the most important restorer of antiquities in Rome in the period of the Grand...

The Capitoline Museums contains the reconstruction of a polychrome terracotta temple pediment dated to the mid 2nd century BC)....

A series of Etruscan terracotta heads in the Vatican Museum come from a votive deposit in the sanctuary of Cerveteri. Dated to the 3rd...

The Proto-historical section of the Baths of Diocletian has an impressive number of hut ash urns in terracotta of the...

“Masterpieces of antique Chinese Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum” was an exhibition presented at Palazzo Venezia in 2016/17. The...

The subject of today’s post is terracotta moulds. In antiquity, moulds could be made of either terracotta or plaster. For small-scale...

The exhibition “Una nota che non c’è” at the Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti in collaboration with Montrasio Arte (Monza e Milano) in the...

Two Panathenaic amphorae from Vulci are on display in the Vatican Museums. The earliest one is attributed to the Michigan painter and...

“Rubbish heaps” are the equivalent of treasure troves for archaeologists, with pottery providing chronological markers and also evidence...

The Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in Rome was an extraordinary collection of Asian art founded in 1957. Until 2017,...

Several large-scale terracotta seated statues and busts of Demeter and Kore from the sanctuary of Demeter in Ariccia were treated in an...

In an earlier post, we considered the stacked amphora fragments at Monte Testaccio. Today we are looking at another reuse of storage...