Milestone Rome

First #Rome art history project by your native local art expert on cultural heritage; art news; hidden gems.

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Belonging to the same complex of the Baths of Diocletian in #Rome, built under Maximian, the Octagonal Hall is covered by a majestic “umbrella dome” with a diameter of about 22 meters, one of the largest in the Ancient Roman world. More on #MilestoneRome:
https://t.co/VovpfWnA2d

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The Octagonal Hall of the Baths of Diocletian is the seat of the Museum of Rescued Art @MNR_museo in #Rome, conceived to showcase periodically changing artworks saved from #artlooting, illicit trafficking, or conflict contexts. More on #MilestoneRome: https://t.co/VovpfWnA2d

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New on #MilestoneRome Art and Culture journal! The Museum of Rescued Art in the Octagonal Hall of the Baths of Diocletian in #Rome (@MNR_museo): exhibiting stories of art looting and restitution. Learn more: https://t.co/VovpfWnA2d #ThisisRome #RomeisUs #Provenance #ArtLooting

[Flavia De Nicola, PhD @FlaviaDeNicola]

📢 Public lecture📢

📅 Monday, October 6
⏰ 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Via Garibaldi, 28, 00153 Rome, Italy
🔗 Registration: https://t.co/PAOJd8cI6C

→ FREE admission
Scientific organization: Flavia De Nicola

#Jubilee
#Rome
#ReligiousDevotion
#ResearchLecture
#CatholicURome

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Today on #Pentecost Sunday, thousands of red rose petals are falling from the Pantheon oculus at the end of the religious mass, symbolizing the Holy Spirit descending in the guise of “cloven tongues like as of fire”
Learn more on #MilestoneRome: https://t.co/tyAzE21kQ8 #RomeisUs

[Flavia De Nicola, PhD @FlaviaDeNicola]

Pleased to announce the publication of my book in May 2025.
It reconstructs the cultural and theoretical context of #Michelangelo's early artistic production in #Rome by analyzing the connections between patrons, humanists, and artists.

https://t.co/iDlYZCe56t

#Michelangelo550

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Scenes from the Requiem Mass for Pope Francis

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We share in the sorrow of the entire world for the passing of our Pope Francis.
May the seeds of peace and fraternity he planted continue to grow.

The Funeral Mass is scheduled for Apr. 26 at 10:00 AM, in the forecourt of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Ph: Jeffrey Bruno, CC BY-SA 2.0.

[Flavia De Nicola, PhD @FlaviaDeNicola]

📢 Public lecture📢

📅 Date: Tuesday, April 15
⏰ Time: 2:30 PM
📍 Location: Via Garibaldi, 28, 00153 Rome, Italy
🔗 Registration: https://t.co/Djhwzo8baX

→ FREE admission

#RestorationIreland
#Rome
#Drama
#ResearchLecture
#CatholicURome

[Flavia De Nicola, PhD @FlaviaDeNicola]

📢 PUBLIC LECTURE📢
📅 Date: Wednesday, 19 February
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Via Garibaldi, 28, 00153 Rome, Italy
🔗 Registration: https://t.co/Wky1aNMROv

→ FREE admission
Scientific organization: Flavia De Nicola

#Jubilee2025 #Rome #CatholicURome #emhist #RenTwitter

[Milestone Rome @MilestoneRome]

#OnThisDay, 15 August 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel, dedicating it to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Before Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, the Assumption of Mary altarpiece by Perugino was frescoed on the altar wall [reconstruction by Vincenzo Farinella].

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As in every year, today on #Pentecost Sunday, thousands of red rose petals fell from the Pantheon oculus at the end of the religious mass, symbolizing the Holy Spirit descending in the guise of “cloven tongues like as of fire.”
https://t.co/tyAzE21kQ8 #MilestoneRome #RomeisUs

[Fotograrte @fotograrte]

#Medieval #frescoes at the basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere https://t.co/M4SaWomUqj a través de @MilestoneRome

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[Rome is] “The most universal city in the world, a place where strangeness and differences of nationality are considered least; for its nature it is a city pieced together out of foreigners; everyone is as if at home”, Michel de Montaigne (1581). #Rome #RomeisUs #ThisisRome

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Antonio #Paolucci, art historian and former director of the Vatican Museums, left us. We’d love to remember his speech in 2018 on the occasion of a book presentation at the Vatican, when he exceptionally unveiled #Raphael’s 500th year celebration in 2020. https://t.co/9yvg3njube

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The main altar of Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala in #Rome was dedicated to the Savior and designed by Carlo Rainaldi (1647-1650). The altar was consecrated in 1725 by Monsignor Prospero Lambertini, later Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini. On #MilestoneRome: https://t.co/xs6GGxLb2A

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The Laocoön and his Sons at the Vatican Museums has attracted the attention of artists, art historians and critics, sparking a debate about the survival of Antiquity as artistic legacy of human civilization. Learn more on #MilestoneRome: https://t.co/z3Tluk9owk @Musei_Vaticani

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The presence of Elijah in Cristoforo Roncalli's altarpiece at Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala in #Rome refers to the pristine eremitic roots of the Carmelites, who settled in the 12th c. on Mount Carmel following Elijah’s example. More on #MilestoneRome: https://t.co/xs6GGxLb2A

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The Trevi fountain is considered a magnificent masterpiece of 18th c. Rome. However, its conception had a lesser-known story, with different designs and even a different location. More about the creative conception of the Trevi fountain on #MilestoneRome: https://t.co/FnCh0mQtuP

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The Pauline chapel dome decoration at Santa Maria Maggiore included an unconventional representation of the moon, inspired by Galileo Galilei's astronomical observations. Was the Church ready to approve these scientific acquisitions? More on #MilestoneRome https://t.co/h1eB33JYlG