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
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...
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| Rained in the morning...our only rain for three weeks in Rome |
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| In the Pina Colada (pinoteca), which we always visit first, fearing an afternoon closure, an 11th century Judgment |
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| Most Judgments show people rising out of their caskets, etc., but this one shows them being disgorged by the animals that ate them |
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| "Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!" |
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| One of our favorite Vatican museums...closed! |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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But, in our extensive researches, we found a couple of exceptions: the Laocoon: who would dare?! |
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| And this untitled marvel, which we have called... |
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| "When a fig leaf just won't do" |
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| Speaking of untitled...when you can't figure out some untitled piece, just sneak around back of it... |
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| "You want a toe? I can get you a toe..by 3PM" |
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