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A view from a window at the Vatican museums in Rome - so you can see the side of St. Peter's.
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Or more precisely on the ceiling in one of the many gloriously decorated rooms of the Vatican Museums in Rome.
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The Vatican museums in Rome are full of old pieces of precious art - but the interior itself is also well worth a look.
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Or some other kind of water-related god (the jar he is holding is a clue to this). The basin in front of him is actually a sarcophagus, not meant to contain water but rather a human body.
In the Vatican Museums - but no signage. The sarcophagus is at least from Imperial Roman times (I would venture a guess at 2nd-3rd century AD). It depicts a battle with the mythical Amazons - a not all that unusual motif on Roman sarcophagi.
Thankfully the Vatican Museum website is more helpful. The river god IS a river god - a personification of the river Arno (from the time of Emperor Hadrian, 117-138 AD) and the sarcophagus dates to the 170s AD, and depicts Greeks fighting Amazons.
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View seen in St Peter, Rome.
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In St Peter's, Rome. This pope died in 1823, and this monument was made by the Danish (but world-renowned) sculpture Bertel Thorvaldsen.
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According to the sign on the right wall, the area behind the closed door is an extraterritorial part of the Vatican. The rest of the Vatican can be found just across the street from where I am standing.
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Another shot of the perhaps most photographed part of St Peter in Rome. You can never take too many.
(My others: www.flickr.com/photos/dameboudicca/12840127134
www.flickr.com/photos/dameboudicca/7545471788
www.flickr.com/photos/dameboudicca/52432073400
All from slightly different angles, at least)
In Italian the church is known as Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. This late Renaissance church was begun in 1506 and not completed until more than a hundred years later, in 1626 - when the Baroque style had come which also influenced the building.
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The perhaps most photographed part of St Peter in Rome. But it is easy to see why.
In Italian the church is known as Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. This late Renaissance church was begun in 1506 and not completed until more than a hundred years later, in 1626 - when the Baroque style had come which also influenced the building.
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At St Peter's square in Rome.
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At piazza San Pietro in Rome.
The Baroque square in front of Saint Peter's was designed by Bernini and built 1656-1667, with the colonnade forming two embracing arches, framing the entrance to the church (and hiding a lot of buildings behind them from direct sight).
(There are no tourists on the piazza because it was fenced off - but a whole lot of birds taking their night rest there.)
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At St Peter's square in Rome.
Andra året med MIdnattsmässa från Peterskyrkan i Rom där prästerna bär munskydd.
