Miscellaneous Roman Sights And Scenes

A few sights and scenes that didn't quite fit the narrative...

Palazzo Massimo, home of the National Roman Museum

Opera

Street scene

Interesting architecture everywhere

At the ever-mobbed Trevi

Us, too

Beautiful old buildings

Interesting new ones too

Protesting violence against women

Jesus as a homeless person...

You never know what's under the plaster...

Beneath the New Esquiline Market...the old one?

Ruins of a nymphaeum (water distribution) in a park near us

Just a few blocks away from our apartment, ruins of another
nymphaeum, 4th century BCE, once thought to be a Temple of Minerva

Eating Roman

Much of our home cooking is Italian, so we felt right at home in Rome...plus there were three supermercados, the huge New Esquiline Market, numerous alimentaries and produce shops, and other things within a few blocks of our appartamento. Besides, when in Rome...

At the produce market just outside our building's door

Bulk wine store around the block; BYOB; sadly, I didn't get here much

Home cookin'--Vicki's veal picatta and pasta alfredo

Chef's board at a resto whose name I've forgotten, near Piazza
Reppublica

Roman pastries are attractive, but we mostly stuck with the
gelato; a really good gelato shop, San Lorenzo, was just a block
away

In an alley just beyond our bedroom window was Saltimbocca,
a restaurant we liked

In part because of its meter deal...a meter's worth

of Roman tapas, plus an aperativo, for 10€

Her pizza

My saltimbocca

Artichokes a specialty in Trastavere and the Jewish
Ghetto

At Dar Poeta

With the beyond decadent calzone filled with
ricotta and nutella

Italian broccoli

In the huge Nuova Esquilino Mercado, a few blocks away; the
entire central aisle (nave?) was seafood

Fried artichoke at Tonnarello's in Trastavere

My salmon

Her carbonara

Ultima cena in Rome, a selection of Italian sausages and pasta

National Roman Museum, 2022

On our last full day in Rome, April 24th, we returned to another favorite, the National Roman Museum, near Termini. It was at least our fourth visit, others recounted at:

https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/museo-nazionale-romano.html,
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/11/national-roman-museum-2013.html, and
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2018/05/national-roman-museum-2018.html.

So I think I've already posted all the things we like about this wonderful museum, except to re-emphasize the Villa of Livia, our happy place in Rome, all four frescoed walls of a 1st century villa's subterranean (to avoid the summer heat) dining room, a four-wall garden landscape, as breath-taking an experience as Monet's water lilies at the Orangerie, but ever more so because of its very great antiquity.

Villa of Livia

The Museum has half a floor of re-assembled rooms from various
villas and homes, a must-see in order to appreciate what you'll find 
in the Forum or Pompeii

Vatican Museum, 2022

This may have been our seventh visit to the Vatican Museum, fifth since retiring. So I think I've probably already posted anything I might want to post, and then some, in one or more of the following:

https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/04/return-to-vatican-city.html
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/04/en-route-to-sistine-chapel.html
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/04/papal-apartmentsrafael-rooms.html
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/04/sistina-cappella.html
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/04/vatican-sculpture.html
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/04/vatican-pinacoteca.html
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/11/more-vatican-museum-2013.html
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/11/vatican-museum-out-takes-2013.html

https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2017/11/vatican-museum-2017_25.html

https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2019/04/return-to-vatican-museum.html

Of course, with a museum this immense and this old, there are always a few new discoveries, a few new ways of looking at things, not out-takes exactly...but...

Rained in the morning...our only rain for three weeks in Rome

In the Pina Colada (pinoteca), which we always
visit first, fearing an afternoon closure, an 11th
century Judgment

Most Judgments show people rising out of their caskets, etc., but
this one shows them being disgorged by the animals that ate them

"Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!"

One of our favorite Vatican museums...closed!

I used to think the pine cone here was just another stupid nod to
contemporary art...but no...it's old, very old, used to sit outside the
Senate in the Forum...we had lunch at the resto nearby

Yet another bit of the Museum closed...a huge hall of ancient
Roman signs and sayings and so on, thousands of them...actually,
what we'd really like to see are the Vatican libraries and particularly
the Sistine Salon...permanently closed...

The Vatican Museum has a serious "no dicks"
policy--see the encyclical "Contra Diccus" by
Pope Prudius XXIII--evidenced on thousands of
male statues throughout the museum, either
covered by a fig leaf or simply lopped off, as above

But, in our extensive researches, we found a couple of exceptions:

the Laocoon: who would dare?!

And this untitled marvel, which we have called...

"When a fig leaf just won't do"

Speaking of untitled...when you can't figure out some untitled
piece, just sneak around back of it...

"You want a toe? I can get you a toe..by 3PM"