Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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The Vatican Museums: How to Walk Four Miles Without Missing the Good Parts
Published:• 11 min readThe Vatican Museums are a four-mile corridor of one-way traffic ending at the Sistine Chapel. A Vatican Museums audio guide to the four rooms that matter and how to walk the route without losing them in the crowd.
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The Acropolis: What to See on the Rock That Built the West
Published:• 11 min readThe Acropolis is a fortified rock with four buildings on top, all finished in the same fifty-year burst. A self-guided tour that works as an Acropolis audioguide for the climb and the four monuments you came to see.
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Notre-Dame de Paris: The Cathedral That Burned and Came Back
Published:• 11 min readNotre-Dame de Paris burned for fifteen hours in April 2019 and reopened five years later. What the fire took, what it saved, and what eight hundred years of stone still does for the people who walk in.
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Goldsmith Closed the Biggest Hole in Christendom
Published:• 11 min readBrunelleschi's dome in Florence was started without a finished plan, built without scaffolding from below, and has never needed a major repair. How a goldsmith with a temper closed the largest hole in Christendom.
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Hagia Sophia: The Cathedral That Became a Mosque That Became a Cathedral
Published:• 10 min readHagia Sophia stood as the largest cathedral on earth for nine hundred years before becoming a mosque. The building under the layers is stranger than either.
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The Colosseum: How Rome Built a Stadium That Could Empty Fifty Thousand People in Fifteen Minutes
Published:• 9 min readThe Colosseum could empty fifty thousand spectators in fifteen minutes and flood its own floor for naval battles. A look at the most efficient stadium ever built.
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Chiaro 2.0 and the audio guide that knows where you've been
Published:• 5 min readChiaro 2.0 is live. The fastest recognition we have ever shipped, a guide that keeps going as long as you are curious, and context that makes every visit yours.
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Pompeii: The City That Vesuvius Buried, and Then Preserved
Published:• 9 min readPompeii was buried alive in a single afternoon in 79 AD. The ash that killed the city is also what saved it. A walk through what the volcano left behind.
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The Striped Posts: Manet's One Trip to Venice
Published:• 11 min readManet went to Venice once, in 1874, with his brother-in-law. He came back with two paintings of the Grand Canal and a pair of striped mooring posts.
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The Square Format and the Trunk: Klimt's Forest Paintings
Published:• 12 min readBetween 1900 and 1916, Klimt spent every summer on Lake Attersee painting trees from no more than fifteen feet away. The forest paintings are what he made instead of women.