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110 images Created 20 Nov 2009

I stayed in a Trastevere apartment in January 2009, seeking unique views of ancient Roman, medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque architectural monuments, sculpture, street life, and cityscapes, within the Aurelian walls of the city. One month was not enough!

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  • View of Bernini=s colonnade around St. Peter's Square, from outside the semicircle.
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  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum, man in a khaki colored raincoat, balding, gray hair, seen from behind studying the statue.
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  • Raphael, stanza della signatura, fresco details of faces: bearded man writing in a large book, with a long haired boy looking on.
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  • Trevi Fountain detail; seagull perched on the nose of a marble horse held by a marble man
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  • A young couple descending the long staircase up the Quirinal hill, Rome, toward the Quirinal Palace, seat of government.
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  • Colosseum with construction crane, seen from the Arch of Constantine.  Figure of a woman photographing the arch.
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  • Colosseum: closeup of brick and concrete interior showing materials in a graphic design
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  • Trajan's Forum, looking along a re-erected colonnade toward Trajan's Markets and the Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi (Knights of St. John, or Rhodes (Rodi).
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  • Crowds around the Fountain of Trevi, late afternoon sunlight illuminating its facade.  18th century design by Nicola Salvi.  Crowds mill about in the foreground.
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  • Elephant statue with obelisk, in Sta Maria sopra Minerva piazza, by GB Bernini
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  • Colosseum; outer corridor with external pillars, heavily pockmarked.
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  • Statue of an elephant wearing an Egyptian obelisk in the Piazza Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome.  Sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).  The elephant, seen from the rear, faces a multi-story hotel Minerva.
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  • Sacred Area and cat sanctuary, Argentina.  Remains of Republican era temples, one possibly that where Julius Caesar was killed.
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  • Constantine the Great, gigantic fragments
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  • Lipstick sofa among Aurelian relief sculptures, in a stunning contrast between antiquity and modernity.
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  • Bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius, the original preserved in the Capitoline useums.
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  • Bronze sculpture of boy with thorn, closeup of head and foot
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  • Imperial Forum from the Capitoline looking toward the Arch of Titus.
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  • Statue of Dying (or wounded) Gaul in the Capitoline Museum, detail of hand pressing on his thigh
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  • Dying Gaul statue, detail of head and face showing expression of pain.
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  • Rome, Capitoline Hill, looking up the ramped approach designed by Michelangelo, toward the Senatorio and its clock tower.  Statues of Castor and Pollux on their pedestals at the top.  Corners of the Capitoline Museums on either side.
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  • Overview of the Roman forum from the overlook at the back of the Capitoline Museum, looking through an arched opening and over a protective barrier.
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  • Overview of the Roman Forum from the vantage point at the back of the Capitoline Museum.  Visible are the Arch of Septimus Severus on the left, Column of Phocas, Basilica Julia, Temple of Castor and Pollux, Sacred Way, and Arch of Titus gleaming in the distance.
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  • Rome, Ara Pacis, detail of sculptured reliefs of white marble, restored, in the Museu del Ara Pacis.  This panel shows the Roman goddess of Peace, with two infants in her lap, surrounded by symbols of agriculture, husbandry, and muses.
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  • Trajan's Markets seen from its roof, looking down on the hemicycle and part of the pavement of Trajan's Forum.
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  • Interior of a curving corridor along an upper floor in Trajan's Markets, showing arched windows and brickwork detail, with more windows seen through the nearest one.  Gentle daylight illuminates the floor and wall stumps.
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  • Sequence of empty arched windows piercing walls of Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Closeup of one, beyond which two more in sequence can be seen.
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  • Interior corridor of the hemicycle in Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Sunlight streams through arched openings on the right to fall on shop entrances on the left.
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  • Cat resident in Trajan's Markets area patrols Trajan's Forum.  Many ancient Roman sites are also cat sanctuaries.
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  • Rome, Ara Pacis, exterior from roadway showing modern enclosure and passersby, one car in motion and a pair of pedestrians.  Reflection of buildings and trees across the Tiber show in the windows. Rome Historical Center.
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  • Roman Forum, showing the Arch of Septimus Severus in the middle distance; rubble of broken fluted column shafts in the foreground.
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  • Arch of Septimus Severus, detail: relief of three barbarians, beside three visitors below standing just as close together.  Rome Historical Center, Roman Forum.
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  • Roman Forum, looking along the main street (Via Sacra)  toward the Arch of Titus.
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  • "Umbilicus Urbis Romae" inscription on a marble  plaque fragment attached to the side of the ancient speakers' platform near the arch of Septimus Severus, Roman Forum.  ...
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  • Ancient paving stones of the main street (Via Sacra)  in the Roman Forum.  Close up, low angle of view.
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  • Rome, Basilica of Constantine (begun by Maxentius).  Colosseum visible beyond through the arched openings; one of the vast arches of the main hall on the left of the image.
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  • Rome, Imperial Forum, Arch of Titus seen from below and to the side of the Via Sacra.  Erected 81AD  by Domitian in honor of Titus' capture of Jerusalem.  Restored 1821.
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  • Roman Forum, Basilica of Constantine, seen beyond a grove of trees near the Arch of Titus, above which a pair of statues on top of Santa Francesca Romana's travertine façade (by Carlo Lambardi, 1615) seem to be floating on top of the tree branches.  Clear plain blue sky above.
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  • Interior of the dining room in the House of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill, Rome; opened to visitors in 2008 after years of careful restoration.
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  • Santa Pudenziana, nave; Cosmati floor; detail of the geometric design of lozenges, stripes, polygons, in cream, grey, red, and blue marble.
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  • Cloister, San Giovanni in Laterano; details of twisted columns with Cosmati mosaics
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  • Santa Pudenziana, interior, apse mosaic detail, right side, late 4th century mosaic.
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  • Rome, Santa Prassede, chapel of Saint Zeno, dome, pendentives, mosaics.  8th century. Detail of one pendentive with figure of an angel wearing a white robe, standing on a globe,  hands upraised as though holding up the central dome with its figure of Christ Pantocrator.
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  • Sta Prassede, mosaic details, Pope St Paschal I ca. 822.  Panel next to apse entrance showing a procession of saints bearing crowns, escorted by two angels .
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  • San Clemente, ancient Roman street level underneath the later churches built over it.
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  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246.
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  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246. Interior view of the chapel, showing floor inlaid Cosmati work, altar, and part of the wall paintings.
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  • SS Quattro Coronati, exterior, entrance, patched with cement and draped informally with electrical wiring.
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  • Yellow motorbike passing remains of an ancient Roman aquaduct, on the Viale delle Terme di Caracalla.
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  • Keats and Severn graves, Protestant Cemetery, on a gray and gloomy day.
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  • Shelley grave, Protestant Cemetery, next to a wall with barred window.  Vase of fresh white chrysanthemums next to it.  Inscription clear in the foreground: "Nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange." [ Shakespeare, The Tempest  ]
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  • Pantheon; detail of oculus and dome interior coffered ceiling seen from below.  Blue sky and clouds visible through the open oculus.
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  • Crowd of people lined up along a barrier in the Piazza del Popolo, Rome; the street sign above their heads on the corner of a building.  The piazza had been cleared for filming a movie scene.
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  • Corso on a Sunday; pedestrians; automobiles parked nose to tail along each sidewalk lining this narrow street.  Sharp linear perspective holds the composition firmly together. 18th century homes and apartment houses, residence of many visitors over the centuries, including Goethe.
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  • Piazza Navona; Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, detail of the lion lapping the water at the base of the fountain.
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  • St Peter's Square in the rain, couple running under an umbrella, curved hemicycle of Bernini's colonnade beyond, grey clouds above.
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  • St Peter's Square, Bernini colonnade, interior curve; man seated writing in the foreground, orange backpack at his feet; another figure partly visible behind another column.
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  • Vatican seen from in front of St. Peters,part of its facade showing on the left.  Heavy rain clouds.  Vatican structure looks distant, mysterious, closed, in contrast to the prominent columns of the St. Peter's facade.
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  • Statue of an angel on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome.  The figures, carrying the instruments of Christ's passion, were executed by Bernini's pupils (Antonio Raggi, Antonio Giorgetti and Ercole Ferrata) between 1660 and 1668 to Bernini's design.
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  • Castel Sant'Angelo, shipping trunks and chests in an upper room of Pope Paul 3d; an interior of polished wood panels on walls and floor.
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  • Stairway up to the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, on the Capitoline Hill, Rome.  It is a very long stairway.
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  • Glass exterior elevator on the Vittorio Emanuele and the bell tower of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, against a clear blue sky.  A stark contrast of a contemporary structure adjoining a Romanesque one.
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  • View from the top of the Vittoriale (Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II).  Visible are the Pantheon and the Castel Sant'Angelo.
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  • One of the two quadrigas of bronze set on top of the Vittorio Emmanuele monument, Rome, seen from the side along the rooftop.  A scattering of about 6 to 8 people.
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  • View from Piazza Venezia along Il Corso toward the Piazza del Popolo, seen from above, on the roof of the Vittorio Emmanuele monument .  City rooftops and the rolling landscape beyond to the blue horizon.  Late afternoon slanted sunlight and heavy shadow along the street.
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  • View from the top of the Vittoriale across the roofs of the church, and facades of the Senatorio and Capitoline Museum.  Graphic composition of angles and parallels.
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  • Rome, Fountain of the Turtles, Piazza Mattei, Rome ghetto; Fontana delle Tartarughe, the Tortoise Fountain. The fountain itself was designed by Giocomo della Porta at the end of the 16th century, but it was Bernini who added the tortoises in 1658.  Detail showing arms and hands of figures lifting turtles into the top basin of the fountain.
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  • Rome, Fountain of the Turtles, Piazza Mattei, Rome ghetto; Fontana delle Tartarughe, the Tortoise Fountain. The fountain itself was designed by Giocomo della Porta at the end of the 16th century, but it was Bernini who added the tortoises in 1658.View of the entire fountain in its position in the piazza.  Boutique and house beyond.
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  • Portico of Octavia remains, with attached medieval church and fish market, into which a modern lighting  boutique, has been fitted.  In the doorway, a woman holding a cigarette.  The casual juxtaposition of ancient, medieval, Baroque, and contemporary buildings and uses always fascinates me.
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  • Bocca della verita, in the porch of Santa Maria de Cosmedin, Rome.  Young woman  smiling, her hand in the mouth of the figure.
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  • Santa Maria in Trastevere, interior, nave showing basilica form, ceiling, and apse; two visitors seated in contemplation on a bench in the foreground; another walks up the aisle toward the altar.
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  • Trastevere street scene: sculpture on corner of a house, man drinking from a fountain; sculpture stuck on the wall above.
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  • Tempietto di Bramante, in courtyard of San Pietro di Montorio. 1502, on the site where St. Peter is supposed to have been crucified.  Round, Doric order, dome, seen through arched entrance.
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  • Bramante's Tempietto seen through barred iron gate, Embassy of Spain, Spanish Academy, Rome.
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  • Rome, view from the Gianicolo (Janiculum)  hill at dusk.  Golden sunlight across the city roofs, hills beyond.
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  • Sta Cecilia, Trastevere, statue of the saint in the altar by Stefano Maderno, 1599.  This sculpture reportedly is modelled on the saint's body as seen in 1595, when her tomb was opened. The statue subtly depicts the saint's decapitation.
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  • San Francesco a Ripa, Trastevere, statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni in ecstasy, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1674.
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  • Cat on a cornice, via della gatta, Rome, on a cornice of the Palazzo Grazioli.  Found in the nearby Temple of Isis (cats were sacred in Pharaonic Egypt).
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  • Street fountain in an alley beside the Palazzo Doria Pamphilij, Fontanella del Facchino, 16th century.  Figure of a man, probably a porter, holding a barrel from which the water pours from a hole in its side to fall into a basin below.  Cobbled street, protective chain in front of the figure.
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  • Piazza Sta Maria sopra Minerva, Bernini elephant and obelisk, Pantheon partially visible between two adjoining buildings beyond, motorbikes in foregound.  Casual juxtaposition of contemporary necessities of urban life in Rome with its still vital ancient structures and ornaments.
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  • Pantheon dome exterior top with seagulls flying around the oculus.  Grey sky with rain clouds above.
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  • Sta Costanza interior, ambulatory colonnade of the circular structure showing re-used ancient columns and Byzantine arrangement.
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  • Sta Costanza, black and white mosaic detail in the curved ambulatory ceiling; 4th century.  Complicated design of grapevines interspersed with realistic figures doing the grape harvest, busts of other figures, and medallions with a variety of insets..
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  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ in clouds handing scroll of the law to Peter and Paul. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
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  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ seated on a globe handing keys to St. Peter. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
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  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Terme Diocletiani, trompe d'oiel painting of a monk with a little dog coming through a door in the cloister of the Carthusian monastery adjoining the baths of Diocletian.    This fresco is probably later, 17th century.  A guard rope is secured in front of it.
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  • Piazza Navona, Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, detail of the figure representing the River Nile, its head covered; part of the figure representing the Amazon River visible behind it, and the facade of Santa Agnese in Agone.
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  • Mute mime (possibly a student)  in gold lame robes, in a sidewalk near Piazza Venezia, Rome. One hand held in front, thumb pointing upward.  Indifferent pedestrian, a man, walks by, his arm also up with a cigarette.  The mime's bicycle chained to pipe in the foreground, and a can for contributions in the ground in front.
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  • Bus stop below the Capitoline, showing a row of five route signs, passengers waiting on the sidewalk, and a stopped bus labelled "Pza. Venezia" at the curb.
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  • Rome, adjoining stairways of Santa Maria di  Ara Coeli and the Campidoglio hill seen from below, across the piazza by the Ara Coeli bus stop.
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  • Shop window, rows of liquors and wines in their bottles, in Rome, near Largo Argentina.  Reds, greens, and yellows color the graphics of the shot.
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  • Aurelian wall from the top of the San Sebastiano gate, showing fields, trees, and the modern city in the distance along the horizon touched with sunlight.
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  • Rome, Aurelian walls from an embrasure at the top of the San Sebastiano gate, looking along the Appian Way as a bus turns to enter it.
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  • Aurelian Wall from outside San Sebastiano gate, with sun and shadow, bright blue sky and white clouds above.  One auto partly visible in the road.
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  • Sign inscription plaque on brick wall Via Appia Antica
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