The Timothyseus Project recommends Rosamond McKitterick's excellent Rome and the Invention of the Papacy. The Liber Pontificalis, published by Cambridge University Press, 2020 > www.cambridge.org/core/books/r... #mckitterick #papacy #liberpontificalis

Rome and the Invention of the Papacy

Cambridge Core - European Studies - Rome and the Invention of the Papacy

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The Timothyseus Project mourns the passing of Prof. Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of Medieval History at Cambridge, and remembers fondly generous and academically-edifying conversations at the British School at Rome and Vatican Library. bsr.ac.uk/remembering-... #cambridge @bsrome.bsky.social

Remembering Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Friend and Supporter of the BSR - bsr.ac.uk

The British School at Rome is very sad to learn of the death of Professor Rosamond McKitterick. Rosamond was an alumna and a long-standing supporter of the School, including in her role as a member (2...

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Giorgio Vasari also designed the Palazzo degli Uffizi (1560-) for Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-69). This architectural project included the Corridoio Vasariano (1565), which the general public can now visit as part of the Uffizi Gallery. #vasari #uffizi #florence

ON THIS DAY > 30 July 1511 > The Italian painter, architect, art historian, and biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) is born in Arezzo in Tuscany. Vasari is most famous for his celebrated Lives of the Artists, which was published in Florence in 1550 and 1568. #vasari #arezzo #renaissance

Petrarch met and befriended the Sienese painter Simone Martini (c. 1284-1344) in Avignon, where the latter illuminated the title page (c. 1336) of Petrarch's manuscript edition of Virgil (70 BC-19 BC), which is now held in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. #petrarch #simonemartini #virgil

ON THIS DAY > 20 July 1304 > The Italian scholar and poet Francesco di Petracco (Petrarch) (1304-74) is born in Arezzo in Tuscany. Petrarch's notable literary works include Il Canzoniere and the Triumphs, both written in the Italian (Tuscan) language. #petrarch #andreadelcastagno

MUSEI CAPITOLINI > Vasari e Roma (Vasari and Rome) (exhibition), 20 March - 19 July 2026: www.museicapitolini.org/it/mostra-ev... #museicapitolini #vasari #roma

ON THIS DAY > 12 June 1519 > Cosimo de' Medici (1519-74) is born in Florence. Cosimo would rule as second duke of the Florentine Republic (1537-69), commissioning Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) to build the Uffizi, now the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence. #cosimoi #medici #florence

THE WARBURG INSTITUTE > Renaissance Lives - 'Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and his World', Thursday, 18 June 2026 > warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #warburg #ghirlandaio @warburginstitute.bsky.social

Renaissance Lives - 'Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and his World'

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The back panels of Duccio's Maestà altarpiece (1308-11) contain 26 scenes from the Passion of Christ, the most comprehensive Passion cycle in medieval Italian art. In 2025 Duccio panels were on display in major exhibitions in New York, London, and Paris. #duccio #maestà #siena

ON THIS DAY > 9 June 1311 > Duccio di Buoninsegna's celebrated Maestà altarpiece (1308-11) is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Tuscany. The main front panel, still today in Siena, depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned with saints and angels. #duccio #maestà #siena

ILLE HIC EST RAPHAEL TIMVIT QVO SOSPITE VINCI RERVM MAGNA PARENS ET MORIENTE MORI #raphael #pantheon #bembo

ON THIS DAY > 6 April 1520 > Raphael (1483-1520) dies in Rome, aged 37, and, at his own request, is later buried in the Pantheon, in an ancient sarcophagus, and celebrated with a Latin distich written by the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547). #raphael #pantheon #bembo

Quid de libris dicam, qui illic erant innumerabiles, non dum Latinis cogniti? Heu, quot nunc magnorum nomina virorum peribunt? Secunda mors ista Homero est, secundus Platoni obitus. Ubi nunc philosophorum aut poetarum ingenia requiremus? Extinctus est fons musarum, [...]. #piccolomini #pinturicchio

ON THIS DAY > 30 March 1432 > The future Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed II (1432-81) is born in Edirne. On 29 May 1453 Mehmed II, aged 21, would finally conquer Constantinople and bring an end to the Byzantine Empire in the East #mehmedii #constantinople #gentilebellini

"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus

Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, is also depicted as a young boy, together with his two older brothers Piero and Giovanni, the future Pope Leo X (1513-21), by Ghirlandaio in the Sassetti Chapel in Santa Trinita in Florence. #medici #santatrinita #ghirlandaio

ON THIS DAY > 17 March 1516 > Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent and brother of Pope Leo X (1513-21), dies in Florence and is later buried in a monumental tomb by Michelangelo in the New Sacristy at San Lorenzo #medici #sanlorenzo #michelangelo

The Italian state has bought Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) for €30m. The painting, which depicts the future Pope Urban VIII (1623-44), will now enter the collection in Palazzo Barberini in Rome > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #caravaggio #barberini #urbanviii

Italy buys rare Caravaggio portrait for €30m

The purchase is part of wider plans to prevent major artworks from being bought by private collectors.

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Leonardo Bruni also suggested an initial iconographic programme, later modified to ten panels, of Old Testament scenes for the third set of bronze doors, the Gates of Paradise, made by Lorenzo Ghiberti for the Baptistery in Florence. #leonardobruni #lorenzoghiberti #florencebaptistery

Leonardo Bruni's multi-volume History of the Florentine People, now published in the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is one of the key texts of our advanced Latin course Italian Renaissance Latin Texts, 1453-1513 > www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #leonardobruni #florence #itatti

History of the Florentine People, Volume 1: Books I-IV — Harvard University Press

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his ...

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POSTQVAM LEONARDVS E VITA MIGRAVIT / HISTORIA LVGET ELOQVENTIA MVTA EST / FERTVRQVE MVSAS TVM GRAECAS TVM / LATINAS LACRIMAS TENERE NON POTVISSE #leonardobruni #santacroce #florence

ON THIS DAY > 9 March 1444 > Italian (Aretine) humanist and historian Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370-1444) dies in Florence and is subsequently buried in the Franciscan church of Santa Croce in a tomb designed by Bernardo Rossellino. #leonardobruni #santacroce #florence

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ON THIS DAY > 6 March 1447. Tommaso Parentucelli is elected as Pope Nicholas V (1447-55) at the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. #nicholasv #fraangelico #renaissancerome #vatican

Michelangelo at Christie's (NYC) > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #michelangelo #sistinechapel #christies

Newly discovered Michelangelo foot sketch sells for £16.9m

Experts at Christie's say it is a foot sketch of the Libyan Sibyl, which was later painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

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TOMORROW: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space (online seminar), Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, 12.00-14.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #florence #ghirlandaio #filippinolippi

THIS WEEK: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space at the British Museum in London (study session), Friday, 19 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00, London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #britishmuseum