Rome

Aventine Hill

I climbed the Aventine Hill to visit the Aventine Keyhole, on the way down i stopped to sketch this view of St Peters from a park overlooking the city

Ruins

My favourite thing about Rome was the way you would walk down a street and catch a glimpse of an ancient fragment of a building that lay casually by the side of a road or in the middle of a square. This also made me think about Notre Dame’s crypt, which is currently so inaccessible.

Bramante’s Tempietto

I visited the Tempietto alone having heard so much about it, and was oddly overcome by how beautiful it was. There was nobody else there so managed to sit for a longer period of time to sketch. It was very much worth the walk up the hill.

Theatre of Marcellus

I stopped to sketch the theatre because it seemed to so perfectly typify our studios title, a palazzo built directly on top of an ancient Roman Theatre. It made me wonder what would happen if someone were to propose a similar strategy for Notre Dame