All Roads Lead to Rome

  
At last, Rome!  I have painted the Eternal City in the past, studied Latin, and many of my friends have travelled to Italy before me, yet it was not until this summer that I was able to see Rome with my own eyes (as well as Avezzano and Alba Fucens in Abruzzo).  With blue summer skies above and buildings as softly-colored as sherbert, ornate marble, ancient monuments, and throngs of excited people milling about, I wound up snapping 1,513 pictures by the end of two weeks.  Here is a small selection of my favorites!

 
The Colosseum by Night


 
The Colosseum by Day


The Theater of Marcellus


Wild Poppies and Summer Wheat


 
In the Shadows of the Pantheon


Traces of Ornamention Behind the Pantheon


A Chance Encounter


The Many Who Wish at the Trevi Fountain


The Dying Gaul and His Modern Mourners


The Crypt of Pope Hadrian


Nuns Leaving the Rose Garden on the Aventine


Summer Roses


A Roman Bee


The Basilica of Maxentius


A View from the Hills


The Temple of Saturn


The Roman Forum
 
 
View from the Palace of Domitian


Swiss Guard


Chairs for a Papal Event


Light Streaming into the Lateran Cathedral


Beauty Among the Ruins


A Rose in the Late Afternoon
 
 
The Aurelian Wall
 

Tombs Beyond the City Walls


 An Ancient Amphitheater in Alba Fucens, Abruzzo

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