Vatican Sculpture

Moving on from the Sistine, our main interest was the paintings, but we had to linger a bit with the sculptures, mostly 1st or 2nd century Roman copies of now-lost Greek originals.

Laocoon

Belvedere Apollo

Belvedere Hermes

Part of one of several "animal" rooms

A colossal Hercules that once stood in Pompey's theatre

Nice bowl (seats twelve); nice mosaic

Vicki poses by a statue of the Emperor Claudius (she's read a lot of 
Robert Graves lately)

Incredibly beautiful porphyry sarcophagus that held the body of St. Helen; 
Constantine's mom, who brought Christianity into the imperial family; and to all 
the rest of us

The Verospi Augustus