Agnes Crawford

Qualified Rome guide specialising in personalised tours. 23 years experience. Native Londoner, naturalised Roman. (Instagram: understandingrome)

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

Twenty-five years ago today I moved to Rome for, perhaps I thought, six months. This is about that (no paywall)
https://t.co/7AKwWSITao

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

@Benpagelondon @bombaylychee thanks!

[Ben Page @Benpagelondon]

Stravinsky's Coffin and the Uncertain Seminarian - Understanding Rome https://t.co/MnVIcqxFkH via @understandrome one for @bombaylychee

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

Here's today's Roman blue sky to say I'm now starting anew at the other place. Come and say hi! https://t.co/lBRtbsVp79

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

Here's today's Roman blue sky to say I'm now starting anew at the other place. Come and say hi! https://t.co/lBRtbsVp79

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters. https://t.co/ObyC3yCb4x

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters. https://t.co/ObyC3yCb4x

[Italy in US @ItalyinUS]

"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.

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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.

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

@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: https://t.co/f9qeZ7JSX8

[Elizabeth Crawford @womanandsphere]

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. https://t.co/Vi5l01xC0s

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

March's (free) monthly newsletter: a couple of thoughts on Neorealist cinema, and info on a Roman Cinema themed jaunt with @racheleats in May
https://t.co/qfBwzSgw1j

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

@marcooth this is what AI is for

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

@ChezBruce thanks! Ciao to you both from Rome!

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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.
https://t.co/B3cVTcsEIH

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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.
https://t.co/B3cVTcsEIH

[Agnes Crawford @understandrome]

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.

https://t.co/lIDAGdYMpe