Agnes Crawford
@understandrome
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Qualified Rome guide specialising in personalised tours. 23 years experience. Native Londoner, naturalised Roman. (Instagram: understandingrome)
Rome, Italy
Joined April 2010
Twenty-five years ago today I moved to Rome for, perhaps I thought, six months. This is about that (no paywall).
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RT @understandrome: Here's today's Roman blue sky to say I'm now starting anew at the other place. Come and say hi! .
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Here's today's Roman blue sky to say I'm now starting anew at the other place. Come and say hi!
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RT @understandrome: Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters. .
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Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters.
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RT @ItalyinUS: "Stunningly and unexpected," writes the @Suntimes about this new Chicago exhibition at @artinstitutechi co-organized with….
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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.
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I looked at Facebook for the first time in a while, Newsfeed is a very 1984 kind of word isn't it?.
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RT @thevicsoc: @EnglishHeritage Delighted to see a Blue Plaque for Agnes and Rhoda Garrett the first women to run a professional interior d….
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Elizabeth Crawford discusses the first women to run a professional interior design business.
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RT @womanandsphere: Number 2 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, is now graced with 2 Blue Plaques - one for Millicent Fawcett and now one for her si….
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I am delighted to report that two more of my ‘Enterprising Women’ have just been recognised with an English Heritage Blue Plaque. For the work of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett is now highligh…
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RT @understandrome: Your friendly reminder that the 1960 Olympic Graeco-Roman wrestling was held in the Basilica of Maxentius. https://t.co….
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March's (free) monthly newsletter: a couple of thoughts on Neorealist cinema, and info on a Roman Cinema themed jaunt with @racheleats in May.
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RT @understandrome: Five years ago, and for one week only, the tapestries Raphael designed for the Sistine Chapel were hung there for the f….
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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.
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RT @understandrome: A putto waterskiing on a crab features in my latest (free) newsletter. It’s about two houses at Pompeii, old money disc….
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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.
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RT @understandrome: Twenty-five years ago today I moved to Rome for, perhaps I thought, six months. This is about that (no paywall).https:/….
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RT @understandrome: My latest newsletter is about this photo: glancing light, pharoahs, emperors, and a footballer .
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My latest newsletter is about this photo: glancing light, pharoahs, emperors, and a footballer
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RT @understandrome: On what is clearly the first proper day of the year my (free) monthly newsletter has lots of photos of recently complet….
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