Roman impressions

[winter]

I've been getting home at about 7-8PM each day, but I'm literally too tired to write. There is so much to see here that it occupies all of my brain. What little is left is taken up with the images of the cloaked cavaliers that should be striding about the place. I didn't think it was possible for there to be so much history in one place, not preserved this way, one upon another. I remain in love with Italian museums and their habit of just shoving interesting things in a room. "Is that-!!!" is a running theme, from Caravaggio to Leonardo to random Dali and Van Gogh and Tintoretto and Rafael O.o

Oh gods, Rafael. I remain in utter awe and admiration ♥ He's the only painter to reduce me to this state, where I can just sit and stare happily, melting into a puddle.

I am also taking way too many photos. Especially of angels. There are angels everywhere.

This example in Santa Maria del Popolo is the current favourite:



Tomorrow, I hope to improve the count of people-in-my-icons-whom-I-have-seen-live by one *points up* Then Trastevere, then on Monday frantic running around filling in the sightseeing gaps, and by Tuesday evening I should be home.

Comments

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was possible for there to be so much history in one place, not preserved this way, one upon another.

It's so horrible, isn't it? There's the weight of so many things; one thing after the other through the endless time. It renders me speechless. I'm never speechless. I'm all speaky. I always figure it doesn't happen to me. And yet it does.

[winter]

My faculties of speech are currently reduced to a continuous, high-pitched sound. I've seen both the Louvre and the Museuminsel in Berlin, but this is something else entirely.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. From Fredrik Vilhelm IV. From Friendrich Stühler. You know my interests well enough, I do believe, to know how utterly, utterly jealous I am.

[alice_montrose]

I vote for more angel statues photos!

[winter]

I fear there will have to be a picspam. Too many angels. My head is spinning ^^;

[alice_montrose]

Ah, but in my book, picspam is GOOD! XD

[happy-riceball.livejournal.com]

Picspam, picspam! :D

[winter]

Once I'm conscious ;) I've still got a few churches to go!

[dunkle-feuer.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that since watching Doctor Who's "Blink" episode, I might have a slight problem with stone angels :D But this one is very beautiful. I vote for more angels!

I'm happy to hear you are enjoying your time! And good luck with your plan for tomorrow!

[tokugawa.livejournal.com]

OMG that is the most beautiful stone angel I ever seen, :)!

[winter]

I was stuck in front of him for a good few minutes :) It's the eyes and the wind around him.

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Rome is one of those places I'd love to visit some time. I'm glad you're having such fun, and that angel sculpture is gorgeous!

I love Raphael, too. He's my favorite of the Renaissance painters.

[winter]

I knew Rome would be gorgeous, but it surprised me with how much of it there is :)