I FLEW INTO Rome and even though I didnt stay there I returned to explore it several times throughout the summer. I loved the energy and the character, the drivers dis-obeying "optional" traffic laws, the food, the art, and the idea of standing in the same spot as historys Caesar, the Gods, and every Pope. You find yourself stopped in your tracks nearly breathless trying to take in the actuality of it all. Touching the same sculpture that Michelangelo touched or staring up into his ceiling knowing that art has gone in reverse, nothing as beautiful or of such value has been painted in centuries.
THIS IS THE terrible first shot on a roll of film and first shot taken in Italy. It is of the Vatican during an address from Pope John Paul II. He is under the maroon shade and shown on the big screen in the center of the picture.
THE VATICAN MUSEUMS
THE SISTINE CHAPEL
I almost got thrown out for this shot. No cameras, NO FLASH allowed! I couldnt hold the camera up to my face to take it, it was literally a shot in the dark; this one 'Creation of Adam' was number 4 of 33 paintings making up the enormous ceiling (im sorry i didnt have color film in, what a shame).
MICHELANGELO PAINTED THE chapel ceiling for Pope Julius II between 1508 and 1512. It was all restored in the 1980s.
SCULPTURE ROOM
TROJAN PRIEST LAOCOON and his two sons. Marble, 1st-century AD.
THE SPANISH STEPS
(for lovers)
ALWAYS COVERED IN azaleas.
THE TREVI FOUNTAIN
(MY VERY FAVORITE PLACE IN ROME)
THE FIGURES ARE of Neptune flanked by two Tritons who represent the two contrasting moods of the sea.
COLOSSEO
ONE OF MANY HOSTEL ROOMS
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