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Walking up the Capitoline I noticed the back of a church with twin belltowers, and curly street lamps. I thought it was cute. Inside the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trestevere I noticed a locked side chapel with a ridiculous and completely over-the-top piece of work from 1929. I couldn't resist. Some things were, I think, meant to be funny, or at least fun. Witness the elephant and the happy bulls in the courtyard of the Antiquities Museum, and the satyr, woman and baby satyr, with bunny heads on the plinth, in the Borghese Gardens. An Italian tried to explain to us what it meant, but I'm afraid his explanation didn't make any sense either. I was amazed by the Roman mosaic at the Capitoline, finding it hard to believe it wasn't a painting, and felt peaceful gazing at the 19th century Temple of Asclepius in its pond at the Borghese. |
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