Rome 2013: Day 10 Church Walk / The Full Monti

Day 10

Church Walk and the Full Monty

I wanted to post a couple of recent sketches before taking you on my Day 10 walk

This one of one of the cloaked figures from the Trajan Market Museum.

This one of Trajan's column and the dome of Torre delle Milizie in the distance

My walk as per usual goes down the steps into Trastevere

Today to see the interior of Santa Maria in Trastevere. Its exterior, in earlier blogs as well as here, beautiful and glimering wiht its 12 century mosiacs and its portico by Carlo Fontana

Splendid 12th century interiors include this gilded wooden ceiling which........

.......is actully hung from the original byzantine wooden ceiling

the mosiacs of the triumphal arch and apse (1140) are beautiful and fine, with exquisite details of vegatables, fruits and flowers.

The baldacchino is by Virginio Vespignani.

21 vast ancient columns that were removed from ancient Roman ruins

Another piece of street art for Perry

A suprise of a little church in a box canyon of a courtyard with of course........

........beautiful interiors

With Berlosconi on the ropes, Greece in crisis, and Roma winning in football, there is a lot to read about

I always seem to accidently walk through the Campo dei Fiori where there is always a market

Sant Agostino

To the Museo Di Roma / Palazzo Braschi to see the Robert Capa photography show

The staircase up to the galleries

Robert Capa was a wonderful mid 20th century photographer who chronicled World War II. This show covers the American troops in Italy between 1943 - 1944. Aplogies for the quality of my photos which were taken through glass. Google Robert Capa to see better quality shots.

The gallery had many other splendid things to see

Back down the stairs to the adjacent Piazza Navonna

More carbinieri hard at work

San Luigi de Francesi as directed by Mikela my Vatican tour guide

This is now the French National Church.

The interior is heavily encrusted with color, marble, light and gilded stucco

Incomprehensibly beautiful. Hard to imagine how this all got documented, approved and built. Were there shop drawings!?!?

More well dressed men seemingly not working and just hanging out and gesticulating

On the way to the pen store, what do I see, but the Pantheon......

Should I wave to her?

As directed by Gearldo Grossi, I have found La Penne Stilografiche - Le Stilo Fetti (founded 1893)

Where is the Auroro with pearl finish en Rosa?

Alora, three men to service one tiny store!

Wrapping the present per me Padre.

Back on the Church trail - Rococo facade by Giuseppe Sardi (1735)

Statues of Virtues

Happened upon this by accident which seems to happen every twenty steps or so

Ghirabaldi lived in this piazza

Lunch stop at Osteria dei Anima recommended by Susan Whiley

Spaghetti with an entire unbroken crab.......

This church just happened to be next door to where I had lunch

S. Maria della Pace

........which has next to it the Bramante Courtyard...........

....which has in it this wonderful little cafe on its piano nobile which Brian Kelly told me about

Espresso per favore

Buono!

Priests hard at work

A little sketch for Brian

Back to terra firma

........another suprise church around the corner..........

Sant Agostino - another of Mikela's great recommendations

With a beautiful Caravaggio - who could make darkness look light and light look dark......

And a gentle Raphael

To the Palazzo Farnese. Perhaps the most beautiful Renaissance facade in Rome? Designed by Antonio da Sangallo, who died in 1546, leaving Michaelangelo to finish the upper storeys along with the superb entabulature. Now the French Embassy, the AAR got me a permesso / letter so I could get in.