Anthony Majanlahti

There is a street in Toronto called Bishop Tutu Boulevard and I remember an alarming headline "SEXUAL ASSAULT ON BISHOP TUTU".

Not enough know generofity.

Tell me about the global south Christianities that are not bigoted against LGBTQ+ people. Or women as archbishops.

Because they're Anglicans. If they want to split off into a different denomination, they can. This is how the Anglican church came into existence in the first place, by not acknowledging the primacy of a bishop that didn't share their views.

You caught me!

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FRESCO OF S. ABBACIRO, 757-767 CE. ATRIUM OF S. MARIA ANTIQUA This open-air space was covered with frescoes by the C7, when a hall and rooms behind it, probably a guardhouse protecting the entrance to the Domitianic ramp that gave access to the imperial palace of the Domus Tiberiana, was converted into a church in the mid C6. This monastic saint, Abbot Cyrus or Abbaciro, under the rule of pope Paul I in the mid C8, was painted in the linear, hieratic style of Byzantine art. Paul I welcomed many refugees from the East who were fleeing the iconoclastic persecution then underway. We see the elderly, bearded saint, his brow furrowed, looking out at us frontally. In one of his hands he holds a small case with a surgeon's instruments in it. Inside the church was a chapel dedicated to the doctor saints, like Abbaciro, Cosmas, and Damian. The ill faithful could sleep overnight in the chapel, hoping to get a healing dream from these "anargyroi", "those who cure without payment".

A warm orange halo illuminates this #fresco from the atrium of #SantaMariaAntiqua in the #Forum in #Rome. The series of #Domitian's halls at the base of the #DomusTiberiana were converted into a church in the C6. For #FrescoFriday we're looking at this doctor saint from 757-767. #AncientBluesky 🏺

It looks like a Roman villa, like the one at Fishb... I mean, Chedworth

You've got Aion on your mind! So do I.

Definitely spolia reuse, but carefully curated to evoke a link with the happy age (happy in retrospect) of Trajan and Hadrian. Self-consciously antiquarian.

Those S-scrolls are very memorable.

The Danube!

The turnstiles are not a solution for overtourism, just a way for the Comune to profit from it.

There are pilaster capitals in the Palatine Museum, from the Domus Transitoria, if I remember correctly. The museum has been closed for a year but maybe next time I go, it won't be. (The guards, as always, know nothing.)

I know you think it got drunk and had a fling with the swaggering Q of "SPQR". But it's as chaste as a Vestal. And a Q wouldn't be interested in a B.

I took this photo with my cellphone zoom at about 15x, from the upper floor of the Colosseum, and I didn't alter it in any way though I should probably have made it a bit brighter. In case you're wondering why it looks strangely squashed, it's just the angle.

The Vatican Museums have more of these pilaster capitals, also from the Pantheon. Maybe there? In the part everyone hurries past, once they're out of the Sistine Chapel?

KKKaroline isn't the brightest Karen in the suburb. Just the meanest.

It's just put on a little bit of weight!

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BATTLE SCENE FROM THE GREAT TRAJANIC FRIEZE, 114-120 CE. ARCH OF CONSTANTINE This triumphal arch is a triumph of spolia, consisting as it does of many pieces of relief work from the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, intelligently chosen by Constantine in 315-316 to reflect a reassuring programme of pacification and an end to civil war. Four large panels from a Hadrianic relief 30 m long and 3 m high, of which this is one, were reused. This relief is known as the Great Trajanic Frieze, though its original location is unknown. It is often said to have come from Trajan's Forum, though that was intact until at least the reign of Theodoric, two centuries after the arch was built. This scene shows a mêlée between Roman cavalry and infantry and Dacians who are falling or already on the ground. In the background are three trumpeters blowing the curved horns called buccinæ, and the whole scene resembles the front of the Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus, from 250-260 CE.

#ReliefWednesday takes us to the #Arch of #Constantine in #Rome, where a piece of the so-called Great Trajanic #Frieze, probably from the reign of #Hadrian, shows a battle scene from the #Dacian wars which may have influenced the sculptor of the Great #Ludovisi #sarcophagus. #AncientBluesky 🏺

The same EU that the UK left? I think your reading is way off here.

That would make a great collective noun. A sycophancy of senators.

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STATUE BASE, 112 CE. FORUM OF TRAJAN This inscription dedicates a statue in front of the Basilica Ulpia to the emperor Trajan, thanking him for the construction of his forum from his own portion of the spoils from the victorious campaign in Dacia. It gives his titles, including "Dacicus", and the number of times he has held various high offices of state, from which we can identify the date as 112 CE. The text says "The Senate and the People of Rome. To Emperor Caesar, son of the divine Nerva, Nerva Trajan Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus, Pontifex Maximus, [invested] with the tribunician power for the 16th time, acclaimed Imperator 6 times, Consul 6 times, Father of the Fatherland. To the Best Prince, because he has enhanced the Republic [the state] and the private interests of its citizens with the works of the Forum." The perfection of the letterforms in this forum arguably defined the highest development of classic Roman epigraphy.

#EpigraphyTuesday takes us into the #Forum of #Trajan in #Rome, where a statue base dedicated by the #Senate to the emperor #Trajan from 112 CE, thanking him for building the Forum. Here we have the classic #epigraphy of the early C2, perfect letterforms. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Oh absolutely. The US has gone full-on rogue state.

Because these ill-gotten gains are all that matter to the Comune.

Holy shit!

Thank you, Lynne! There's so much to say about the context of acquisition of these pieces that I have to be very careful not to go over my 1000-character limit.

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