Today we are chatting with Anthony Lombardi, one of our Drawing Instructor’s on the program and finding out his secret Rome… Continue reading Profile: Anthony Lombardi
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A Christmas Message
We’re so accustomed to the Holiday season, it comes as a surprise that President Lincoln never gave a Christmas speech – because Christmas didn’t become a national holiday until 1870.
He had his challenges but that wasn’t one of them. Continue reading A Christmas Message
The Eternal City
Rome is called the Eternal City but I ask myself what that means. The word eternal can mean lasting forever, without end and timeless; but it can also mean an emphasized expression of admiration in a phrase such as my eternal gratitude. How can these concepts be associated to a city? And, if I can call Rome eternal, why can’t I call Athens or Jerusalem the same? Continue reading The Eternal City
To Think In Painting By Anthony Lombardi
To Think In Painting is an essay and short film by Anthony Lombardi. The film can be viewed in full by following this link – To Think In Painting Continue reading To Think In Painting By Anthony Lombardi
Point Of View: Anthony Lombardi, Teaching Assistant
Vista di Roma dal Gianicolo
The Janiculum (Gianicolo). Nine-thirty in the morning in front of the panoramic lane which overlooks the unsettling city. With its warm colours of painted stucco and brick buildings, baked-clay roof tiles in both the Portuguese and Roman styles, white facades made from marble shipped down from Carrara or yellowish travertine ones, bluish-grey domes and different shades of green coming from the Platanus trees along the Tibur or other species of plants speckled about the larger avenues or squares. Continue reading Point Of View: Anthony Lombardi, Teaching Assistant