Our place at Prato Smeraldo, camper-stop, -storage, -service
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Giovanni's roses
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We'll be back!
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...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
Our place at Prato Smeraldo, camper-stop, -storage, -service
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Giovanni's roses
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We'll be back!
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The Tiber, the Island, and the 2,000 year-old Roman bridge |
Sometimes the sights are just other people, other tourists, including a young couple carrying a blow-up kangaroo down the Via Lungoterre Anguillara |
They're from Australia (duh) and the roo's name is Skip; "he goes everywhere with us" |
The Native American shoppe |
The vege-matic shoppe; actually, multi-bladed scissors |
The Americano license plate shoppe |
And the army surplus shoppe |
Vicki by the Piramide |
Reliefs like this beautiful example have provided historians with many clues about Roman history, architecture, et cetera |
Over-sized Mars, a very popular god with the Romans |
The dying Gaul; a favorite subject in Hellenistic and Roman art; but always executed with empathy |
Muy importante: the Lex de Imperio Vespasiani, a hugely important tablet, historically, that set forth the roles, duties, and rights of the emperor |
A beautiful marble Amazon (sans Kindle) |
Incredible things done with marble |
Pink marble Dionysus |
In the Hall of the Philosophers (all bearded, of course) |
Capitoline Venus |
In the Tabularium, the archives of ancient Rome |
And, after a modest dinner in the area, back to the Metro Colosseo |
Steps leading up to the Capitoline Hill, the Piazza Campidoglio; the great Capitoline Museum flanks the Piazza |
Inside, the great bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius (and his horse); the largest equine statue of antiquity |
Bust of an Amazon; winner of a scultpure contest in Ephesus |
Beautiful marble caryatids |
Tablets listing consuls (the CEOs of the Republic) over the centuries |
The very, very famous 5th century BCE bronze she-wolf (the twins are a Renaissance addition) |
Boy removing thorn from foot, also very famous |
Another Artemis from Ephesus, but a particularly beautiful one |
The Emperor Commodus dressed as (his hero) Hercules |
Fragment of the immense bronze sculpture of Constantine that once stood in the Forum; a hand and two feet also survive |
Adoration of the Persons with Sticks and Big
Butt |
On a column in the nave of this St. Mary
church, an apparently random Rafael, his
Elijah, as I recall; thank goodness they left it
as it was |
Caravaggio's Matthew and the Angel; Guido
Reni's still the best Matthew, if you ask me |
The Beatification stuff was still everywhere; note use of the
Piazza for a tour bus parking lot
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We fell in line right behind a group of nuns and friends from
Croatia, singing and chanting all the way; I was actually moved
(slightly) by their evident emotion
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Looking across the great Piazza
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We did get to see the new JP2 Beato shrine
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Up closer
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On our way out we visited the JP2 exposition, which I found
quite informative and enjoyable
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A collection of JP2's many books; I guess he didn't have much
of a problem with agents or editors or publishers
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And so we left, but not without promenading
one more time through Bernini's four-deep
colonnade, one of the grandest of architectual
wonders
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Interior of St. Mary of the Illusionist Dome; no, I think it was St. Ignazio Loyola |
We were into illusionist domes and ceilings that day (high Baroque stuff), and this might actually have been the best; everything you see here is painting, not architecture |
At the Church of Gesu, Vicki demonstrates use of the OSHA- approved reflecting device for observing illusionist ceilings |
The ceiling at Gesu, with its brilliantly blazing IHS |
As the sun was setting, we walked past Hadrian's Forum |
Ditto |
Ditto again |
To our Metro stop by the Colosseo |