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3/3 Waking up a sleeping friend by poking a burning candle under his nose. LOL joke that just never got old for Nicolas Regnier of Antwerp/Rome, whose day is today.

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2020-01-25

Big day in Roman imperial history:

41: Claudius is declared emperor by the Praetorian Guard following the assassination of Caligula, his nephew.

76: One of Rome's greatest Roman emperors is born: Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian

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2020-01-24

Ryse: son of Rome(2014).
El perfecto paradigma de como el portento técnico y visual no compensa un sistema de combate lineal y rígido, y un guión predecible e insulso.
Lo bien que ve es directamente proporcional a lo aburrido que es jugarlo.
Meh.

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2020-01-21

Today is Plácido Domingo's birthday!👏
Listen to him singing "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars shone"), 3rd act aria of Tosca, opera by Giacomo Puccini, 90 years after it premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.
https://t.co/u8Rz1Dt5k3

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2020-01-21

The best architectural drawings always include dogs.
Marchionni's designs for the Villa Albani, 1755

https://t.co/gdqkdYwvav

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2020-01-21

Who doesn't love an anvil? 19th January Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi premiered in the Tor di Nona in Rome in 1853

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2020-01-19

Un peu de grandiloquence maintenant avec l'architecte et peintre Louis-Jean Desprez (1743-1804)

1) Cérémonie à la cathédrale de Salerne
2) Illumination de la Croix de Saint Pierre à Rome
3) Projet pour le palais Sheremetev
4) Procession funéraire d'Agamemnon

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2020-01-18

Roman mosaic geometric patterns from Saint Romain en Gal (France), Tipasa (Algeria), Rome (Italy) and Acholla (Tunisia). All these are reproducible by vertical and horizontal translation of elementary square patterns.

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2020-01-18

A couple of Panini's sketches of figures in in the 1740s, in graphite, chalk, and a bit of wash. Great line.
The bass player is from one of his sketch books
https://t.co/ZmCH2tL4F3
https://t.co/dQu8XzyNm2

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2020-01-17

The Life of St. Ignatius Loyola. Plate 9. After their solemn vows at the Basilica of St-Paul-Outside-The-Walls in Rome, the companions set off to help souls with unbounded joy.

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2020-01-12

La Robe de Mariée, 1976 / Le Sacrifice d'Iphigénie, 1968 / La Route de Rome, 1979
© Paul Delvaux (1897 - 1992)

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2020-01-11

Coming March 31st!

INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE (1953)
• 4K Restoration of INDISCRETION
• 2K Restoration of TERMINAL STATION
• AUTUMN IN ROME: 8-Minute Prologue with Patti Page singing 2 songs
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Pasquale Iannone
• Theatrical Trailer

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2020-01-10

« Franchir le Rubicon »

Le Rubicon marque la frontière entre la République de et la Gaule cisalpine.

Jules César la traversa avec son armée la nuit du 9 au 10 janvier 49 avant J.-C.

Il le franchit en disant : « Alea jacta est » – « le sort en est jeté »

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2020-01-10

Reconstitution de la basilique dite de « Maxence et Constantin » dont les travaux furent lancés par le premier et achevés sous le second, au début du IVe siècle. Érigée le long de la Via Sacra, près du temple de Vénus et de Rome, elle impressionne par ses dimensions.

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2020-01-10