Some misc. pictures of sight-seeing and walking while Jen was in town.
Santa Maria delle Concezione
The church has some great Baroque paintings, but by the time we got there it was so dark inside (and nothing was lit up) that it was difficult to see anything except for this beautiful Guido Reni near a window
The main attraction of the church isn't the church itself but the crypt below, which houses some very unusual decoration. Over the years the Capuchin monks used the bones of their brothers to decorate small chapels. Creepy! (No pictures are allowed, so these are from Google.)
That's a lot of bones!
Back outside and in the land of the living, at the fontana di Tritone by Bernini in the Piazza Barberini
The Ponte Sisto, commissioned by Sixtus IV in the 1480s
I've decided I'm in love with sculptural altarpieces
Inside the Pantheon. I've never seen it lit up like this, because every other time I've been inside, even later in the day, it has been during the summer, and therefore illuminated only with natural light. This is much more beautiful!
Santa Maria delle Concezione
The church has some great Baroque paintings, but by the time we got there it was so dark inside (and nothing was lit up) that it was difficult to see anything except for this beautiful Guido Reni near a window
The main attraction of the church isn't the church itself but the crypt below, which houses some very unusual decoration. Over the years the Capuchin monks used the bones of their brothers to decorate small chapels. Creepy! (No pictures are allowed, so these are from Google.)
That's a lot of bones!
Back outside and in the land of the living, at the fontana di Tritone by Bernini in the Piazza Barberini
The Ponte Sisto, commissioned by Sixtus IV in the 1480s
I've decided I'm in love with sculptural altarpieces
Inside the Pantheon. I've never seen it lit up like this, because every other time I've been inside, even later in the day, it has been during the summer, and therefore illuminated only with natural light. This is much more beautiful!
