Today I'm not one for words, so instead please enjoy these fascinating photos of Italian sights...
Please Note: These are in reverse order of when the photos were taken. All Photos were taken by me, and all subjects are Italian. Any sculptures are property of the Vatican or the Italian Government, as are any paintings and artifacts ect.. I will provide a location for each if I am unable to provide a name or artist.
This sculpture of Laocoon and His two Sons is located in the Vatican Museum
A Painting from the Vatican Museum
Athena: From the Vatican Museum
A Foot from the Capitoline Museum in Rome: Just like in Asterix!
A sculpture in the Capitoline Museum In Rome:
I love how the background fades up into black, and her hair is amazingly sculpted in the back, though it is difficult to see here.
Hercules at the Capitoline museum: he had an amazingly curly beard, apparently.
The apparently famous atrium of the Capitoline Museum: Complete with toes and nose and what looks suspiciously like a shin.
An archway from Pompeii, that Mt. Vesuvius was deadly but it preserved a lot of beautiful architecture.
This is a bath in a room in Pompeii. The rainwater would come through the opening above and fill the shallow pool. Even baths in ancient Roman civilization were stunning.
Amphoras in Pompeii: Finally something engrained in my memories from childhood... again thanks to Asterix and our other gaulish friends.
Those aristocratic Romans and their highfalutin gardens. Apparently they used murals the way we use mirrors, to make a room seem bigger. Look how you can marry the hours of home decor shows you watched when trading spaces was big with ancient history! Exciting!
Best thing about ancient Pompeii: they had fresh food sold in shops WITH SLIDING WOODEN DOORS!
Some columns at the entrance to Pompeii: according to the historian leading us around, all of this was under volcanic rock.
At the Colosseum: "I'm Likin' the Lichen"
The colossal colosseum: labrinths are really in right now.
Ancient Roman Graffiti: Vandalism from another time.
An arena used for chariot racing on Palatine Hill... Many men have bled here over the centuries, and so did I, if briefly.
The only thing that could possibly make ancient ruins better is WILD FLOWERS.
Look at the pretty mosaic... all on a floor and everything. Palatine Hill: where the rich stand on their art!
"I speak for the trees!"
An olive tree, dear to my heart as one of the food obsessed. Look at the sunshine through the leaves!
And now for our regularly schedualed ancient ruin, complete with one of them arches those ancients were so fond of!
Guess what I was disproportionately interested in when I should have been staring at ancient cement.
And now we leave Palatine hill and go back in time to my first day in Rome with...
The obelisk at the top of the Spanish Steps.
A surly face that brightened my otherwise soporific day
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot"
And a shiny dome to see you off, oh how the architecture flies by.
FIN
Both tree picture quotes from The Lorax by Doctor Suess, in case you were unsure.
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