time machine
May. 29th, 2002 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fictionalYou know, I draw really terribly.
My father sent me an e-mail with lots of pointers.
Maybe it will help, otherwise the whole thing is just depressing. Yesterday instead of going to the Pantheon, we went to Turtle Fountain, and drew there. As one might guess it didn't go so well. My turtles look sort of like upended saucers. Alas.
After that, the two apartments on the Via Santa Ana ended up getting together and attempting to make pasta with putanesca sauce, but of course we didn't make nearly enough sauce, or cook the pasta entirely, so that proved interesting. the salad with goat cheese, pears, sliced almonds and chickpeas was really good though, as is just plain bread sprinked with virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
This morning we had to get up really early to go on a walking tour of Nerone Domus Aurea (Nero's Golden House), the site of which still rests on the Esquiline Hill. That was insane. Our tour guide was a crazy wonderful Belgian professor with the longest legs ever. He raced from site to site and laughed at us as we tried to keep up. He made us imagine what the Golden House would have looked like when Nero built it, a mile long, encrusted with stucco, wall paintings, precious jewels and above all marble everywhere. The excavated site is chilly and mostly underground, and it is still breathtaking, especially in the places where some remnants of the decoration survived. There are scenes from the Odyssey and Iliad on the ceilings, as well as some of the most amazing architecture, ideas that would lead to the buidling of the Pantheon sixty years later. Nero built it after Rome burnt in the fire of 64 AD, and occupied much of what the citizens considered to be their part of Rome to do so. 40 years after his death, it was completely filled in with earth, and public baths built on top of it, in an effort by later emperors to curry favor with the people.
after the Domus Aurea, we walked back through the Forum towards the Capitoline Hill, and got a quick tour through Ancient Rome. I hadn't realized before how much of the Forum is a walk not only through space, but through time. On top of royal Rome, sits Republican Rome, and right next to that is Imperial Rome, and then slowly encroaching over it, Medieval christian Rome. It sort of boggles the mind.
I have so much work to do, it's silly.
I'm going to take off to go and do that now.H
My father sent me an e-mail with lots of pointers.
Maybe it will help, otherwise the whole thing is just depressing. Yesterday instead of going to the Pantheon, we went to Turtle Fountain, and drew there. As one might guess it didn't go so well. My turtles look sort of like upended saucers. Alas.
After that, the two apartments on the Via Santa Ana ended up getting together and attempting to make pasta with putanesca sauce, but of course we didn't make nearly enough sauce, or cook the pasta entirely, so that proved interesting. the salad with goat cheese, pears, sliced almonds and chickpeas was really good though, as is just plain bread sprinked with virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
This morning we had to get up really early to go on a walking tour of Nerone Domus Aurea (Nero's Golden House), the site of which still rests on the Esquiline Hill. That was insane. Our tour guide was a crazy wonderful Belgian professor with the longest legs ever. He raced from site to site and laughed at us as we tried to keep up. He made us imagine what the Golden House would have looked like when Nero built it, a mile long, encrusted with stucco, wall paintings, precious jewels and above all marble everywhere. The excavated site is chilly and mostly underground, and it is still breathtaking, especially in the places where some remnants of the decoration survived. There are scenes from the Odyssey and Iliad on the ceilings, as well as some of the most amazing architecture, ideas that would lead to the buidling of the Pantheon sixty years later. Nero built it after Rome burnt in the fire of 64 AD, and occupied much of what the citizens considered to be their part of Rome to do so. 40 years after his death, it was completely filled in with earth, and public baths built on top of it, in an effort by later emperors to curry favor with the people.
after the Domus Aurea, we walked back through the Forum towards the Capitoline Hill, and got a quick tour through Ancient Rome. I hadn't realized before how much of the Forum is a walk not only through space, but through time. On top of royal Rome, sits Republican Rome, and right next to that is Imperial Rome, and then slowly encroaching over it, Medieval christian Rome. It sort of boggles the mind.
I have so much work to do, it's silly.
I'm going to take off to go and do that now.H
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Date: 2002-05-29 08:02 am (UTC)aww man are you makin me wanna go to rome!
never has it sounded 1/2 this incredible!
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Date: 2002-05-29 03:15 pm (UTC)really.
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Date: 2002-06-03 04:51 am (UTC)you know i could never catch 'em anyway...
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Date: 2002-06-03 05:33 am (UTC)and before you ask
Date: 2002-06-03 05:34 am (UTC)"an idiot who runs, drooling, to hide his bauble in some hole"
i'm still not over ms. kagan reading that to us in 5th grade