Assorted Other Pictures & Places |
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This door knocker was the size of a bowling ball. |
As near as I could tell, some sort of star chart. |
The "lockers" the priests used - in the Vatican museum. |
Al took an awful lot of pictures in the Egyptian exhibit in the Vatican museum. I've spared you most of them. |
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What looks like a rug on the floor there is actually a mosaic. Impressive, eh? |
A photograph of the original ruins where the mosaic floor was discovered. |
Again - not a fabric tapestry but a mosaic from tiny individual tiles. |
I was just impressed with the optical illusion created through mosaic. |
A really, really, really old necklace on display at the National Museum of Rome. |
The display room was built to match the original room from which the walls were excavated so you could see the room as it was originally designed and used.
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The ceiling of a hallway in the Vatican museum. |
The Papal Apartment at the Vatican, to the side of St. Peter's Basilica |
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The center aisle is partitioned off in St. Peter's for those who wish to take pictures just like this one. |
The exterior of St. Peter's Basilica is impressive as well. (Luckily the lines weren't too long to go through security - just like at the airport, but you get to keep your shoes on.) |
A sketch in the Vatican Museum. |
I'm not quite sure ... (also in the Vatican Museum) |
Photographs are forbidden in the Sistine Chapel but there you have it. Smack-dab in the center is what all the fuss was about - Michaelangelo's "Creation of David" (which is the background of this web page.) |
Gotchya! The papparazzi strikes again! (And yes, I'm well aware that only I could lump the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museum in the "Assorted Miscellaneous Other" category.) |
This globe-like thing was in the giant courtyard of the Vatican Museum ... |
... and it slowly rotated ... |
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... which seemed to mesmerize Al. |
Hang on ... |
.... whew! The last one! |
Or you can click here to see the video version of the thing twirling around. |
