# @nancygouldstone on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-04-24T13:24:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NANCY GOULDSTONE ARCHITECTS (@nancygouldstone) — https://gondola.cc/nancygouldstone

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Spent a lovely week in  Rome over the half term - overwhelmed by the layers and layers of history and beauty - incredible buildings that are literally thousands of years old. So much inspiration from the layout and proportions of the buildings to the intricate level of detail of their facades and interiors

New journal post over at our website, link in bio

Image 1 - Sant’Agnese in Agone Church- started in 1652 by Girolamo and Carlo Rainaldi, with contributions by Borromini. A Baroque masterpiece in the Piazza Navona. And a building I based my architecture final year university project around.

Image 2 –The Pantheon, rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian (118–125 AD). Once a temple to all of the gods and now a Catholic church, incredible engineering feat of an unsupported 43m concrete span dome!

Image 3 – Ponte Sant’Angelo (Church of Angels bridge), originally Pons Aelius (134 AD), later  Bernini later added the angel sculptures in 1669. 

Image 4 – The Gallery of Maps at the Vatican Museums, founded in 1506. 

Image 5 –A richly detailed doorway in the Gallery of Maps

Image 6 – a painted window alcove in the Vatican

Image 7 – The Laocoön and His Sons, unearthed in 1506, sparked the creation of the Vatican Museums. 

Image 8 – Glazed decorative handmade tiles at the Vatican

Image 9 – The Colosseum 
The Colosseum (70–80 AD), commissioned by Emperor Vespasian almost 2000 years old, probably the most beautiful structure in the world, was forgotten for hundreds of year with orchards and vineyards growing in it

Image 10 – The Colosseum- from inside - looking down onto the area that would once have have had the arena above it. These are the corridors where the gladiators and animals stayed until they went up to fight and perform in the arena. 400,000 people were killed in the arena when it was in use.

.#RomeArchitecture  #ArchitectsJourney #HistoricalSites #DesignInspiration  #NancyGouldstoneArchitects

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