![]() ![]() Cavallini was brought in to paint the church’s interior for Cardinal Stefaneschi, titular cardinal in the 1290s, and patron of Giotto. A contemporary of Dante, Cavallini is said to have lived to a hundred despite never wearing a hat, information which has always led me to feel rather fondly toward him. The remodelling of the church didn’t just box in the columns but also reduced the size of its interior, entirely obliterating the frescoes of the great Pietro Cavallini. A nun will relieve you of a couple of euros and usher you into an improbably small and rather rickety lift which has been shoehorned into a corner of the aged building.Ī level up, you find yourself in the organ loft face to face with one of the finest late medieval frecoes in Rome. To the left of the entrance portico is a door which is open on weekday mornings. ![]() However my favourite bit of the church is not initially apparent. Ill at ease, he shyly proffers the church which he has dedicated to Cecilia. Avid writer on Men's Hair, Grooming, and Lifestyle Embodying sex appeal as a male singer is a cheat code as it enables the artist to capture female attention which Usher has been doing since the 90s. Looking every inch the Byzantine princess she has her arm protectively over the shoulder of Pope Paschal, his blue nimbus rather than a halo indicating he was alive when the mosaic was made. On the left we see the Roman noblewoman St Cecilia, who lived and was martyred here for her beliefs. Dating to the reign of Pope Pascal I (also responsible for the church of Santa Prassede, about which I wrote this piece) in the early 9th century, it shows Christ surrounded by saints. First of all, does Usher really need a new haircut A survey conducted by the Celebrity Post cosmetic department revealed that 68 of respondents approved the singers decision to get a new haircut. Although a slightly chi-chi early 18th century makeover neatly boxed in the recycled and mismatched ancient columns in uniform of white and gold, even the zealous tidying of Cardinal Acquaviva couldn’t bring itself to touch the apse mosaics. The last time he dramatically changed his haircut it cost him just over 80,000 followers on Twitter. This, I thought, was what Rome should be like. The church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, with its verdant courtyard, rampant bouganvillea, and blissful silence broken only by the occasional thwack of a football against a column on the square outside, reminds me every time I visit of the delight that this part of Rome provided on my first forays into the area on a university class trip 15 years ago. ![]()
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