Courtyard of Chiostro del Carmine.
| Album III - Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 |
Photos from my trip to Italy with my sister Anna, July, 2007.
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| Siena |
Courtyard of Chiostro del Carmine.
Front walkway.
View of courtyard from second floor.
Bell tower, viewed from the courtyard.
The Palazzo.
Tower of Basilica di San Domenico.
Basilica di San Domenico, interior.
Head of St. Catherine of Siena, Basilica di San Domenico.
Street view of Siena.
Approach to the Cathedral.
Cathedral tower.
View towards Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi from the museum tower near the Cathedral.
Piazza and Palazzo from the museum tower.
Anna with the Palazzo.
Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi.
Cathedral nave and tower, under renovation.
Baptistry, interior.
Donatello bronze adorning the font, baptistry.
Panel work depicting the Blessed Virgin crowned.
Ceiling painting, baptistry. I especially liked the depiction of the Spirit coming upon the Eucharist.
Hills outside Siena at sunset.
Tabernacle and altar in the cloister chapel. The chapel is now used as a meeting room.
Cathedral facade.
Papal busts adorning the nave of the Cathedral.
More papal busts. They look cranky, don't they?
Cathedral organ.
Pulpit, cathedral.
Cathedral nave.
The unfinished nave, abandoned in the fourteenth century. Had it been completed, the cathedral would have been the largest church in the world.
A section of unfinished nave. The structure to the right is now used as a museum.
Palazzo courtyard.
Perspective view up the Palazzo tower from below.
Anna with the Basalica di Santa Maria dei Servi and the Tuscan countryside.
Piazza from the Palazzo tower.
Siena from the tower, with San Domenico.
Cathedral from the Palazzo tower.
Perspective down the tower steps from above.
Please don't sit on the choir.
I call this "Tuscan Tragedy."
Hello! I'm Schleppy, the happy, smiling, luggage-moving robot! (Chiostro del Carmine.)
| Trent |
A view of the Dolomites from the train.
Cathedral of St. Vigilius, Trent.
Baldachin and altar, Cathedral of St. Vigilius.
View towards the left aisle, Cathedral of St. Vigilius.
Deteriorating painting, left aisle.
More medieval paintings.
Wooden crucifix, ca. 14th century. This carving stood before the Council of Trent.
Altar, crypt.
Early medieval sarcophagus.
Floor mosaic, age unknown.
View down the nave.
Cathedral exterior.
Diocesan museum.
Foundations of the Imperial-era city gates.
More of the foundations.
Remnant of a huge column.
An ancient drain/aqueduct
View from above the baldachin, accessible from the Diocesan Museum.
A painting of Charlemagne at the castle on the other side of town.
Anna with the Dolomites in the background.
The Dolomites.
Castle tower.
Castle courtyard.
I never fully understood these tiny garbage bins on the trains. Two Kleenexes and they're full.
| Milan |
Facade of Milan Cathedral.
Arch in honor of Victor Emmanuel.
Anna wanted me to take a picture of her new shoes.
Nave, Cathedral.
A side altar.
Tomb of St. Charles Borromeo.
Restored stonework, roof of the Cathedral.
Perspective view through the flying buttresses.
Another perspective view.
Tower.
Mosaic fragments, paleo-Christian baptistry, Milan.
Loose mosaic pieces.
Old cathedral foundations, 5th through 12th century.
Early medieval painting.
Medieval sarcophagus.
Floor of the baptismal font.
Baptismal font.
Tomb of Bl. Andrea Cardinal Ferrara, Milan Cathedral.
One of the fancier McDonald's joints in the world.
| Pavia |
Basilica of St. Michael, Pavia. Charlemagne was crowned King of the Lombards on this site in 774. I believe the building is newer.
Eroded sculpture on the Basilica facade.
Nave and altar, Basilica of St. Michael.
Medieval painting.
Teodote's Crucifix, 10th century.
Rear of the nave.
Annabella!
Basilica di San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, facade.
Cathedral, facade and tower.
Civic Tower ruins. The tower collapsed in 1989.
Welcome to Italy! Here's our mascot, Puking Marble Man! (I think this was in Milan, on our way back from Pavia.)
| Liguria |
Monterosso.
Anna, with Monterosso in the background.
Farther down the trail.
Come shop at the Fanny Bazar!
Seafood in Vernazza. Those tiny fried calamari were really, really good.
Today's Trenitalia special: buy a ticket to Monterosso and get a free sandwich!
| Florence |
Baptistry doors.
Baptistry door, detail.
Baptistry door, detail.
Santa Maria del Fiore.
A view of the dome from the bell tower.
A view of the dome and nave, also from the bell tower.
Palazzo Vecchio as seen from the bell tower.
Pope Eugenius IV, Cathedral facade.
St. Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, on the Cathedral facade.
Bishop Tinnacius, Cathedral facade.
Anna with our cousin Andrew, in front of the Cathedral.
"Welcome to Florence! Here's your special benediction."
"What are you looking at?"
Cathedral facade.
Palazzo Vecchio.
Creepy statue-mime guy.
Palazzo tower from below.
Rape of the Sabine Women.
The fake David in front of the Palazzo.
| Rome |
Where I'm from, we call this "ice."
The first glimpse of the colonnade from the north.
Dome of St. Peter's from the northeast.
Archway to the colonnade
The obelisk in St. Peter's Square.
Facade of St. Peter's.
Swiss Guard on duty.
No disconnected prosthetics, cracked back skin, shorts, or rotator cuff tears are allowed in St. Peter's.
Closer view of the facade
The Holy Door.
Bishops celebrating the dogmatic definition of the Assumption in 1950.
A view down the nave.
The Pieta.
Monument to Queen Christina.
Bronze statue of Pope Pius XII.
Relics of Pope Bl. Innocent XI, Chapel of St. Sebastian.
Tomb of Matilda of Canossa.
Relics of Pope Bl. John XXIII.
Baldachin.
Late medieval bronze of St. Peter.
Niche of the Palliums below the High Altar.
St. Veronica.
Bernini sculpture of the Throne, encasing relics of the chair of St. Peter.
Tomb of Alexander VII by Bernini.
List of Popes buried in the Basilica. It's in need of a little updating, in that Pius X has been canonized and Innocent XI and John XXIII have been beatified.
Monument to Pope Pius VII.
Relics of Pope St. Pius X, Presentation Chapel.
Stuart Monument.
Another view of the nave.
An inscription proclaiming the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.
Statue of St. Gregory of Armenia.
A view of the dome from below.
A very lifelike statue of Anna.
The summit of the dome from within.
Bernini's Cathedra Petri sculpture from above.
Perspective view up the gap between the shells of the dome.
St. Peter's Square from the dome.
Radio Vaticana. The building incorporates one of the towers built onto Leo IV's 9th-century walls by Nicholas V (15th century).
Government Palace.
When these plants were re-done with Benedict's armorial, someone forgot that he abandoned the tiara in favor of a mitre.
A view along the Viale delle Mura Aurelie, with a section of Urban VIII's wall (17th century).
An inscription commemmorating the inlaid floors installed under Innocent X.
Obelisk and Basilica facade in the evening.
A fountain depicting the Triregnum. I had seen this in a book somewhere, so I was happy to spot it near the north side of the Square.
Obelisk of Ramesses II, Piazza del Popolo.
It's not all cigarette butts. Sometimes you'll run across huge quantities of foam packing peanuts flying around in the street.
I think Asole and Botoni are going to have to find a different name before making inroads into the English-speaking world.
Entrance to the Vatican Museums.
A view of the dome from the museum courtyard.
A copy of the Discobolus, Vatican Museum.
The Gallery of Maps.
Map of Siena.
Inscription commemmorating the restoration of the Sistine Chapel artworks for the Great Jubilee year, 2000.
Nave.
Baldacchino.
Altar of the Falsehood, 18th c. mosaic replica of Roncalli's painting.
Altar of the Transfiguration, with 18th c. mosaic replica of Raphael's painting.
The Papal apartments as viewed from under the collonnade.
Swiss Guard, still on duty.
View of the Basilica facade from Via d. Conciliazione.
Pontifical Academy for Life.
We could translate this loosely as the "Vatican Library School." I snapped this one for my Mom, who has an M.L.S. from the University of Minnesota.
Street performer dressed as Liberty. He was really suffering for his art. It was a hot day.
Castel Sant' Angelo.
Relics of St. Joseph Cardinal Tomasi, Basilica of San Andrea della Valle of the Theatine Fathers.
The Collosseum. I think this was the view down the Via dei Fori Imperiali.
Ruins of the Forum.
Julius Caesar, Perpetual Dictator.
Another view of the Forum.
Church of San Lorenzo in Miranda, formerly the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina.
Another view of the Collosseum.
Arch of Septimus Severus.
Arch of Septimus Severus.
Facade of St. John Lateran.
The episcopal throne of the Pope, St. John Lateran.
Tomb of Pope Innocent III, St. John Lateran.
Nave, St. John Lateran.
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