You can find picures of the Roman crowds anywhere, but where else can you see a heffalump?
Santa Maria Maggiore Side Chapel
This is one of several side chapels at the fantabulous Santa Maria Maggiore. |
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Santa Maria Maggiore High Altar
This is the high altar. The canopy is roughly two stories tall. The apse mosaics date to the IVth or Vth century; the ones in front are a millennium later. |
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A closer view of the altar.
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Bernini
An atypically understated Bernini grave at Santa Maria Maggiore. |
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Kill Donald?
More Roman grafitti. |
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Marketing
Action Francine in search of shoes. |
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Shoes
Shoes, shoes, shooooz! |
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Ciao
A lazy Roman morning. Note the background grafitti. |
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Sanduwiches
A vendor near Castel Sant'Angelo. This may have been my favourite sign in Rome. |
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Angel
One of the giant angel statues on the bridge near Castel Sant'Angelo. They were each carrying something enigmatic. This one, for example, appears to be holding an ice-cream cone. Peraps she is trying to distract the pigeon roosting on her head. |
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Ponte
The bridge. Note the angel on the right holding what appears to be a traffic cone. |
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Obelisk
Looted from Egypt by Imperial Rome, moved to the Piazza Navona by a XVIth century Pope: these obelisks sure do get around. |
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Navona Bikes
All Rome comes to the Piazza! |
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Grazie
These and similar posters appeared all over Rome throughout the week. |
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Heffalump
The enigmatic elephant of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. |
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Skully
Why we need more tombs in churches: cool skull sculptures! |
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Catherine
St. Catherine of Siena's sarcophagus at Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. |
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Arise!
Death comes to the archbishop, and he shrugs it off. |
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Pantheon Rear
Just passing by the back of the Pantheon. This picure is a pretty good summation of why I find Rome so fascinating. |
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