Renaissance Utterances

A blog to explore the interests of an original renaissance woman; arts, sciences, poetry, librarianship and everything in between.

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Showing posts with label Romans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romans. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

London's Sailortown in the 18th Century

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I fulfilled an ambition at the weekend; to run down The Cut to Limehouse Basin, head on to Narrow Street via Ropemaker Fields, and then o...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Eyes of Gods: The Interiority of Sculpture

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Reconstruction of Zeus These notes continue on from the lecture on idols . The boundaries between gods and idols are rather blurred; bot...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Lecture 3: St Peter, the Pope and the Eternal City

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Rome as a religious centre? Pardon? Ok, what exactly did I know about Rome as a place of pilgrimage? I’ve seen Gladiator and I, Claudius (...
Sunday, 28 April 2013

Pestles and Mortalities: Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Musem

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This post came to me in the aftermath of a host of sensory experiences; the scent of fresh garlicky flavours being pounded out by a granite ...
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Librarian. Educator. Writer. Communicator. Previously of London, now in Croatia.
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