National Roman Museum, 2013

We visited the National Roman Museum in Rome in 2011 (http://roadeveron.blogspot.it/2011/05/museo-nazionale-romano.html), and were impressed. Not least because we ran into Rickie Stevie there. This is one of the great museums of classical culture and history--the others being in Naples, Athens, and Instanbul--and we had to see it again.

And take many of the same pictures again: the Pugilist, one
of the few bronzes to have come down to us

And the discus-thrower

And Dionysus

And great sarcophogi

But our favorite is still the Villa of Livia, a large room, four walls of which are the
frescoed garden of Livia, 2,000 years old

Incredible stuff, nearly an encyclopedia of plants and birds

And we always seem to run into someone important at this museum...here, Amanda
Daniels, a graduate of Missoula's Sentinel High school, where Vicki taught, and who
helped us get on a plane several years ago...

Inlaid glass...not quite in windows yet

Detail from one of the scores of huge beautiful mosaics

In one of the frescoed villa rooms

And another...

With interior design notes

Another not-to-miss place in Rome