Category: Rome

• September 13, 2015
• Day 6
• Rome

Bucplic park of Villa Borghese, 7th-century residence of Cardinal Scipone Borghese.

• 1st Temple of Aesculapius 19th-century
• 2nd ll Lago
• 3rd Villa Borghese soccer field

• September 13, 2015
• Day 6
• Rome

Spectacular sculptures. My picks.

• 1st Antonio Canova’s Venus Victrix, 1805-8
• 2nd Goan Lorenzo Bernini’s Apollo e Dafne, 1622-5
• 3rd Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-2

• September 13, 2015
• Day 6
• Rome

Venue Museo e Galleria Borghese.  My attire was the famous white shirt, always a fashion statement.

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd photo Museo e Galleria Borghese

• September 12, 2015
• Day 5
• Rome

Angles and shade created by urban  woods.

• 1st photo II Vitoriano
• 2nd & 3rd photo Roman Forum

• September 12, 2015
• Day 5
• Rome

How grand to have been a Roman of class, means, and no political agenda …providing a Roman whose death would be by natural means.

• 1st Road side statue
• 2nd & 3rd Roman Forum

  

• September 11, 2015
• Day 4
• Rome

Rome layered out. A change in perspective.

• 1st & 2nd from the dome of St Peter’s Basilica
• 3rd Vatican Museum

• September 11, 2015
• Day 4
• Rome

Green space. Not a new concept for Vatican City.

• 1st & 2nd Vatican Museum
• 3rd Dome of St Peter’s Basilla

  

• September 11, 2015
• Day 4
• Rome

Do you remember when life was limited to eight chunky Crayola Crayons?

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd Vatican Museum
• 4th Vatican City

  

• September 11, 2015
• Day 4
• Rome

Style preference.

Michelangelo or Matisse.

• Michelangelo’s ceiling frescoes, Sistine Chapel. MYTH DEBUNKED. Michelangelo did not paint lying down. He designed a curved scaffolding system allowing him to work standing.
• Michelangelo’s Pieta, his only signed work completed at age 25-years old. St Peter’s Basilica
• Matisse, Vatican Museum