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• Gay Life at the Baths: Pompeii and After

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 02:16 in pompeii, gay bathhouse, social spaces

  Frontispiece From a Undated 19th Century EditionTen to thirty-five brothels and four or five baths have been unearthed in Pompeii, though one wouldn't know it from Pompeii and the Roman Villa at LACMA. Call it historical revisionism or a reframing o...

• Learning From Disneyland: Tales From the Olden Days and Roman Antiquity

  Posted on Tuesday August 7th, 2007 at 15:43 in italy, rome, disneyland, michelangelo, vatican city, sistine chapel, autopia, last judgement, euro multi-club, gay bathhouse, the vatican museum, borgia apartents

  One of the frescoes in the Borgia Apartments (above) is titled, "The Triumph of Religion Over the Profane." It shows a Greco/Roman statue toppled off its pedestal and replaced with a crucifix. The actual breaking up of Roman marble took a lot of phy...

• Getting (a) Head in Rome

  Posted on Sunday August 5th, 2007 at 13:05 in rome, caravaggio, francis bacon, gay bathhouse, gaudy villas, borghese gallery, leda and the swan, making art for rich people, decapitated head

  At the Borghese Gallery a couple of the Caravaggios are at a show of Dürer in Italy at the Scuderie del Quirinale. It was a strange feeling to think, "Oh, I can check that out next week. Looking at C's David With the Head of Goliath I couldn't he...