Jan Visits Rome - The Eternal City


On our second day in Rome, we visited the Vatican Museum. These statutes were in the same room as Nero's bathtub, and the bronze statue furthest to the right is a rather rare example of a bronze statue.	The heads of these statues show how the eyes of the statues originally were painted in vivid colors, which obviously made the statues seem much more alive than they do today.

Raphael's "The School Of Athens", one of many famous paintings in the Vatican Museum.	While we visited the Sistine Chapel, which contains Michelangelo's famous ceiling decorations, we were not allowed to take any pictures. The above picture is from The Basilica of Saint Peter, where Italians enjoy touching the food of the "'St Peter Enthroned" statue.

Outside the Basilica of Saint Peter, at Saint Peter's Square, I quickly developed a vision of one day creating my own square somewhere in the middle of a forest (as I can not possibly afford to purchase land anywhere else). In the middle, I want to have a big obelisk of myself smiling like an idiot.	The setting of my camera was all screwed up, but this is anyway Saint Peter's Square as seen from the other side of the square. The building in the middle is the entrance to the Basilica of Saint Peter, while the Pope lives in one of the apartments on the right hand side.