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The Meaning of Ornate. #vaticanmuseum #ceilingart #fresco #italianart #renaissanceart #history #artlover #smartphonephotography #photography

A detailed view looking up at the elaborately decorated and painted barrel-vaulted ceiling of a long hallway, featuring numerous frescoes, sculptures, and ornate architectural details in gold, green, and cream colors.

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The modern and contemporary art section of the Vatican museums was surprisingly good. Here are some of the works. #VaticanMuseum #MuseiVaticani

Carlo Carrà
Quargnento 1881 – Milano 1966
Lot's Daughters III, 1940
Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm

Francis Bacon
Dublin 1909 – Madrid 1992
Study for Pope II, 1961
Oil on canvas, 150 x 118 cm

Salvador Dalí
Figueras 1904 – 1989
Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape, 1977
Oil on canvas, 76 x 101 cm

Will Barnet
Beverly 1911 – New York 2012
Four generations, 1984
Oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm

I think: The courtyard was my favorite part of the #VaticanMuseum #Roma

The spheres can be seen as a promising rebirth of a less troubled and destructive world. Pomodoro describes his desire for building these sculptures, stating, "breaking these perfect, magic forms in order to reveal their internal ferment, mysterious and alive, monstrous and yet pure; I [want to] create a discordant tension, a conflict, with the polished shine: a unity composed of incompleteness."

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this porphyry sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum, Vatican Museum, Rome.

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detail from red porphyry sarcophagus: Roman cavalryman

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: a minotaur.

Vatican Museum, Vatican City, Rome.

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Bust of a minotaur: powerful bull's head, looking at the viewer, slender torso,: the missing arms raised (as if crucified) to emphasise the shoulders and musculature.

Flickr has gone a bit bonkers today: 20,000 views (about x 10 the usual number). This generally means that someone has linked to a Flickr album. Indeed, the statistical trend seems to identify the museums of Rome, as a theme. The photo with the most hits? This bust of Homer, seen in the Vatican Museum, Rome.

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