Reflections: Samantha Sanders – Summer 2015 (week 2)

Work/study student Samantha continues to reflect on her month on the Summer 2015 program. If you missed the first instalment of her adventures, you can read it hereContinue reading Reflections: Samantha Sanders – Summer 2015 (week 2)

Summer 2015 In Pictures – Week 2

Art History Lecture

The second week of the Rome Art program saw our students working on location in and around the St Peter’s and the Vatican, visiting the studio of Sculptor Peter Rockwell and painting on Isola Tiberina. Continue reading Summer 2015 In Pictures – Week 2

Point Of View: Tristan Barlow’s Rome – Past, Present & Future

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

            Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Continue reading Point Of View: Tristan Barlow’s Rome – Past, Present & Future

Locations: Isola Tiberina

One of two islands on the River Tiber, Isola Tiberina is the worlds smallest inhabited island. Aproximately 270m long and just 67m wide, the boat shaped island is connected to both sides of the river and was once named Insula Intra-Duos-Pontes which means “the island between the two bridges” Continue reading Locations: Isola Tiberina