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  • Rome, Ara Pacis, detail of sculptured reliefs of white marble, restored.   A goddess sits amid a scene of fertility and prosperity with twins on her lap. Scholars have variously suggested that the goddess is Italia, Tellus (Earth), Venus, and Peace, though other views also circulate. Due to the widespread depiction around the sculpture of scenes of peace, and because the Altar is named "peace", the favored conclusion is that the goddess is Pax.
    Ara Pacis panel ITA200901--0495-2.jpg
  • Small crowd of tourists huddle in the rain around their guide in the Piazza San Pietro, Rome.  A few other people scattered in the distance.  St. Peter's Basilica facade and dome beyond.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1325.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, statue of a seated boxer, bronze.  Partial view, from the hips up, the head turned toward the camera.  The hands are tightly wrapped; facial expression one of polite weariness as he turns his head to answer someone.
    Statue_bronze_wrestler_Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419–ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside.
    ITA201012-088 BW.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, ancient Roman bronze statue of a seated boxer.  He looks wearily over his shoulder as though someone behind him had just spoken to him.
    Ancient Roman boxer ITA200901--1124-...jpg
  • Sta Maria della Vitoria, Bernini's sculpture of Sta Teresa in ecstasy.  Famous statue taken from an angle that emphases the angel's cruelty in his readiness to stab her with his upraised arrow.
    Bernini's St. Teresa ITA200901--1113...jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, mosaic panel, two pigeons, border of waves and rope
    Rome_ITA200901--1142-2.jpg
  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ seated on a globe handing keys to St. Peter. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1105-...jpg
  • Sta Costanza interior, ambulatory colonnade of the circular structure showing re-used ancient columns and Byzantine arrangement.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1087.jpg
  • Pantheon dome exterior top with seagulls flying around the oculus.  Grey sky with rain clouds above.
    Pantheon-dome-exterior-Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • 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.
    Street_fountain_Rome_ITA200901--1068...jpg
  • San Francesco a Ripa, Trastevere, statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni in ecstasy, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1674.
    Bernini_Ludovica_Albertoni_Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • 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.
    Piazza-Mattei-Rome_ITA200901--0954.jpg
  • 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.
    Piazza-Mattei-Rome_ITA200901--0951.jpg
  • 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.
    trompe-doeil-painting-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • 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..
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1091.jpg
  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ in clouds handing scroll of the law to Peter and Paul. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1103.jpg
  • 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.
    Piazza-Bernini-elephant-Rome_ITA2009...jpg
  • Wet shiny cobblestones, moss in between their rectangular shapes, near the Vatican.  Feet of the photographer in white sneakers.  Much walking despite the rainy weather that day.
    ITA200901--0785.jpg
  • Detail of a girl hugging her horse, showing both heads and her arm.  Bronze by Giuseppe Gavazzi in the Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy.
    Gavazzi sculpture ITA201012-175.jpg
  • Statue of Dying Gaul in the Capitoline Museum, detail of hand on thigh
    Marble hand ITA200901--0461.jpg
  • Bronze sculpture of boy with thorn, closeup of head and hand holding his foot
    Ancient Roman boy ITA200901--0449.jpg
  • St. Peter's Basilica: Michelangelo's Pieta, through the protective glass now in front of it.  Window opposite is reflected in the glass.
    Easter-ITA200901--1321.jpg
  • Internal stairway in the Palazzo Davanzati.  I like stairways.
    Mysterious-old-stairway-ITA201101--0...jpg
  • Courtyard of the Medici Palace, with transparent red gauze cloth banner hanging between two columns.  Tourist couple standing nearby looking around them.  The banner shows a collage of a photograph and a Ghirlandaio fresco with a quotation from Gabriele di Annunzio.
    Medici-Palace-courtyard-Florence-ITA...jpg
  • Everyone loves the Ponte Vecchio.  It was always crowded, so I preferred it from further away.  I had lots of opportunities from the next bridge over, the Ponte S. Trinita, restored after bombing in World War II.  The bus stop I used to get back to my B&B was nearby, so most of these images were made in the late afternoon or dusk.
    Florence_Ponte_Vecchio_ITA201012-094.jpg
  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419-ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside, its serene colonnade arching over a potted orange tree.
    Brunelleschi-courtyard-colonnade-ITA...jpg
  • It rained in January.  Horse eating lunch out of his nosebag on a rainy day; he wears a raincoat, his carriage has an umbrella, and his master stands beside him hoping for customers.  Glistening rain slicked pavement. Crowds in the background in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.  Construction cranes in the sky.  We'll notice them again too later.
    Equine_lunch_Florence_ITA201012-319.jpg
  • Exterior: trattoria Quatro Leone, Oltrarno, Firenze.  The door stands invitingly open.  The food is delicious.  It is frequented by neighborhood residents.
    Restaurant_Florence_ITA201012-261.jpg
  • This amusing fountain, probably 17th or even 18th century, stands on a corner in the Oltrarno near a bus stop I often used at the end of the day to get back to my b&b.  Its grotesque mask always made me smile.  Its mouth has a metal spout which indicates safe drinking water.  The six balls on the escutcheon above are a Medici heraldic statement, six being typical of the 16th century usage.
    Baroque_corner_drinking_fountain_ITA...jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Floor mosaic propped up against a wall.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1043.jpg
  • Detail of a twisted column of Bernini's baldachino in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.  The black column with its gold ornamen tation is set against on e of the white marble square pillars in the basilica.  Three candles, unlit, in the foreground.
    Baldachino-detail_Rome_ITA200901-128...jpg
  • Vatican. St. Peter's Basilica, detail of facade looking up to two column capitals, and cornice, with fragments of sculpture projecting above, including a disembodied arm and a papal crown.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1281.jpg
  • Cloister and Renaissance facade of Santa Clemente.  Woman tourist with camera.  Cobblestoned pavement, graceful arched 18th century facade using ancient columns for the colonnade.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1260.jpg
  • 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.
    Campidoglio-Rome_ITA200901--1183.jpg
  • 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.
    Sant-Maria-Trastevere-interior-Rome_...jpg
  • San Clemente, ancient Roman street level underneath the later churches built over it.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--0691-2.jpg
  • Colosseum; outer corridor with external pillars, heavily pockmarked.
    Colosseum_Rome_ITA200901--0343.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum; detail of a head of a boy looking frightened, as part of a snake coils over his upper arm..
    Boy_head_Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--029...jpg
  • A living boy looks with, perhaps, suspicion, at a "living statue" in Florence.  Other actual statues in nearby niches.
    Living statue ITA201012-228.tif
  • Close up of one twisted column of Bernini's canopy or baldachino in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.
    Bernini baldachino column ITA200901-...jpg
  • Constantine the Great, gigantic head in profile, with pointing thumb from the detached hand.
    Constantine head ITA200901--0415.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum, man in a khaki colored raincoat, balding, gray hair, seen from behind studying the statue.  He interacts with it.
    Laocoon viewer ITA200901--0292a.jpg
  • Christ Pantocrator between the Virgin and St. Minias, with Evangelist symbols.  Dated 1260 or 1297, by an unknown artist.  In the apse of the church of San Miniato al Monte, Florence.
    Pantocrator mosaic San Miniato ITA20...jpg
  • Ferragamo has the splendid medieval Palazzo Spini Feroni for the company museum.  A look through the window shows the painted plaster ceiling with an image of a male figure astride a flying eagle, surrounded by cherubs.
    Florence-Ferragamo-museum-ITA201101-...jpg
  • View toward Santa Croce, built 14th century.  The surrounding streets are lined with leather shops.
    Florence-streetscape-Santa-Croce-ITA...jpg
  • Sidewalk approach to the Galileo Museum, with astrological symbold embedded in the pavement.
    Galileo-museum-Florence-ITA201101--1...jpg
  • The Palazzo Alberti-Corsi is a late 15th century town house or palazzetto.  It was eventually bought by an English art historian Herbert Percy Horne, who restored the residence to what he determined was its original state.  He left it to the state after his death.  The interior is fascinating and each room has a determined young security person who enforces "no foto."  However in one small room where the leaded window glas appealed to me, I managed a quick shot with my pocket Canon G10.
    ITA201101--1991.jpg
  • Campanile (bell tower) of the Duomo, designed and begun by Giotto, 1334-37, when he died.  Four years later Andrea Pisano became Master of the Works and scrupulously followed Giotto's design until 1348, the year of the Black Death, when everything stopped.  Francesco Talenti finally finished it in 1359.
    Florence_campanile_ITA201101--0066.jpg
  • The duomo interior is large and quite bare.  Again the pietra serena with white walls combination is used.  The floor of polished multicolored marble echoes the exterior color combination of red, green, grey, and white.
    Florence_Duomo_nave-ITA201101--0059.jpg
  • Detail of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, by Paolo Uccello, 1424, with color correction to bring out detail.  The fresco, in the Green Cloister of Santa Maria Novella, was badly damaged in the flood of 1966.  Even so the concept of   the serpent in the Garden of Eden as an attractive blonde woman has great appeal to me.
    Garden-Eden-serpent-ITA201012--0062c...jpg
  • A few years after the Sassetti Chapel, Girlandaio decorated the Tornabuoni Chapel in the apse of Santa Maria Novella.  The subject is the life of John the Baptist, 1485-1490,  seen from the northern side of the nave.  Altar with wooden crucifix, decorated with pots of red poinsettias and candelabra as it is still the Christmas season.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella_Tornabu...jpg
  • Close up of hand and drapery of Donatello's statue of Habbakuk ("Il Zuccone"), between 1423-35.  Made for the Campanile, now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.
    Donatello-statue-Habbakuk-ITA201012-...jpg
  • The same year, 1424, Masaccio and Masolino were painting the Brancacci Chapel in the Church of the Carmine.  As always I look for the details that show some personality.  Slightly thuggish looking Masaccio self portrait.  He died at the age of 27, rumored to have been poisoned by some competing painter.  Masolino the shorter man at left, and the jug-eared man Bruneslleschi.  The man in the foreground possibly Leon Battista Alberti.  They are in the audience of St. Peter enthroned.
    Brancacci-chapel-Masaccio-portrait-I...jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Four or five well dressed ladies in the foreground, male escorts behind.
    Four-Renaissance-ladies-fresco-ITA20...jpg
  • Upper facade of the Palazzo Vecchio, originally designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, completed 1322.  Coats of arms painted 1353.
    Florence-palazzo-vecchio-detail-faca...jpg
  • I decided that including a cypress tree would add a certain punctuation mark to the standard view of the Palazzo Veccio and the cathedral dome.
    Florence_cityscape_ITA201012-174.jpg
  • The crucifix painted in 1288 by Cimabue for the church of Santa Croce was severely damaged in the flood of 1966.  Preserved  but not restored, it is displayed in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce.  Cimabue's style humanizes Byzantine severity, in the faces of Jesus, Mary, and St. John.
    Cimabue-crucifixion-ITA201012-119.jpg
  • Rainy streets can make nice reflections.  Perspective view down an alley at night in Florence, with a neon bar sign and a bicycle leaning against the wall opposite.
    Florence-streetscape-night-ITA201012...jpg
  • Interior of the Pazzi Chapel showing one corner with arched windows and terra cotta roundels by Luca della Robbia above them.   The grey edgings and  pilasters are of pietra serena, a specific type of stone from Fiesole.  Combined with the warm white walls they make an exquisitely serene space.  Some scholars now think that Berunelleschi was responsible for the design, and the building work was completed by others, such as Michelozzo.
    Pazzi-chapel-interior-ITA201012-114.jpg
  • Courtyard wall of the Bargello studded with carved stone coats of arms of various Florentine families.
    Bargello-courtyard-ITA201012-101.jpg
  • Closeups of faces in the crowd in Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Magi.  His style has stronger lines and more insistent detail than we have seen before.  Many are probably portraits of specific individuals.  As my friend Patsy said, "they're so gossipy!"
    Renaissance-men-portraits-Ghirlandai...jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Closeup of a theatrical mask carved in stone, showing angry expression.
    Roman_theatrical_mask_ITA200901--103...jpg
  • Floor pattern in the room of the Capitoline wolf sculpture is a meandering Greek key interspersed with dots and squares.
    Greek_key_pattern_ITA200901--0438.jpg
  • A Florentine woman, with her young daughter (about six years old), fills a water bottle at a Baroque wall fountain in the Oltrarno.  Both wear padded jackets.  The fountain, on a street corner, has above it a grotesque mask.  The fountain is shaped in swoops and scrolls, echoed in her curved arm reaching out, and curving fur hood of her jacket.
    Woman_child_fountain_ITA201101--0034.jpg
  • Uffizi Gallery from across the Arno River at sunset.  The crowd is like a row of dots along the river bank.  The intense yellow color of the setting sun on the gallery wall is reflected in the water of the river below.
    Uffizzi_gallery_sunset_reflection_IT...jpg
  • I like to collect pictures of wall signs and graffiti that have some relevance to their location.  Or some mystery.  Here the message on a scruffy old wall is: "Terrorista e lo stato" painted in black, apparently through a template.
    State_terrorism_ITA201012-096.jpg
  • I could not decide between a horizontal and vertical picture, so I did both.
    Brunelleschi_colonnade_detail_ITA201...jpg
  • Ostia Antica, ruins of Republican era temple of Heracles.  Statue of C. Cartilius Poplicola on the temple platform.  Late afternoon sun, slanted shadows.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1044.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Headless statue, wearing a toga, along the street; umbrella pine tree behind it.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1028.jpg
  • Detail of a stone troll carving in a canal in the gardens of the  Villa d'Este.  The creature's open mouth seems to be drinking in the water of the canal.
    Baroque gulp in stone canal, gardens..voli
  • 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.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901-4857.jpg
  • 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).
    Trajans-forum-Rome_ITA200901--4837.jpg
  • San Clemente, interior, looking out from the main doorway to the courtyard and street beyond
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1255.jpg
  • Sign inscription plaque on brick wall Via Appia Antica
    Appia-Antica-Rome_ITA200901--1224.jpg
  • 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.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • Bramante's Tempietto seen through barred iron gate, Embassy of Spain, Spanish Academy, Rome.
    Bramante_tempietto_Rome_ITA200901--1...jpg
  • Trastevere street scene: sculpture on corner of a house, man drinking from a fountain; sculpture stuck on the wall above.
    Trastevere-streetscape-Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • Bocca della verita, in the porch of Santa Maria de Cosmedin, Rome.  Young woman  smiling, her hand in the mouth of the figure.
    Bocca-verita-Rome_ITA200901--0968.jpg
  • Stairway up to the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, on the Capitoline Hill, Rome.  It is a very long stairway.
    Ara-Coeli-stairway-Rome_ITA200901--0...jpg
  • 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.
    Castel-Sant'Angelo-interior-Rome_ITA...jpg
  • 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.
    Statue_Baroque_angel_Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • 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.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--0819-2.jpg
  • Keats and Severn graves, Protestant Cemetery, on a gray and gloomy day.
    Keats-grave-Rome_ITA200901--0708-2.jpg
  • Yellow motorbike passing remains of an ancient Roman aquaduct, on the Viale delle Terme di Caracalla.
    Rome_cityscape_ITA200901--0705.jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, exterior, entrance, patched with cement and draped informally with electrical wiring.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • 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.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • 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.
    Santa-Prassede-mosaic-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • 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.
    Constantine-basilica-Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • "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.  ...
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0517.jpg
  • 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.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0486.jpg
  • Sequence of empty arched windows piercing walls of Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Closeup of one, beyond which two more in sequence can be seen.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0482.JPG
  • Trevi Fountain detail; seagull perched on the nose of a marble horse held by a marble man
    Rome_Trevi_fountain_ITA200901--0318.jpg
  • San Clemente, mosaic detail
    ITA200901--0686-2.jpg
  • Marble statue of St. Luke, by Nanni di Banco, in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.  The work was on the original facade of the cathedral, which was redesigned and built.  The seated figure looks down on us with a supercilious sneer, holding a book on his knee with one hand.
    Saint Luke Renaissance statue ITA201...jpg
  • Closeup of Donatello's late sculpture in wood of the penitent Magdalen.  Her mournful face, tangled hair, ragged robe, and wrinkled hands are shown.
    Donatello Magdalen ITA201012--0029.jpg
  • St. Peter's Basilica: Michelangelo's Pieta, behind protective bullet proof glass.  Window on the opposite side of the church is reflected in the glass, creating an ambiguous spacial relationship.
    Michelangelo Pieta ITA200901--1321pt...jpg
  • Elephant statue with obelisk, in Sta Maria sopra Minerva piazza, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.  Close up of the elephant's expressive, mischievous face, with waving ears and flourishing trunk.  The creature is decked out with an elaborately decorated howdah.
    Bernini elephant ITA200901--0393.tif
  • Ostia Antica.  Closeup of an ancient Roman theatrical mask carved in stone; Corinthian pillar and umbrella pines behind.  Adjoins theater at Ostia.
    Ostia Antica theater mask ITA200901-...jpg
  • 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.  This one holds a scroll INRI, expressing symbolic pain under its flying robes and wings.  Cloudy, rain-filled sky above and behind the figure.
    Statue angel Ponte Sant'Angelo ITA20...jpg
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