Livorno — Ema’s place opens to this square in the heart of the town. It’s a seaside town with canals and a busy port. — Tuscany
The Apostolic Palace
September 14, 2011 – 20:32
Columns outside The Apostolic Palace — Basilica Papale di San Pietro, State of Vatican City.
Basilica Papale di San Pietro
September 14, 2011 – 20:31
Basilica Papale di San Pietro — Long avenue heading to Vatican City Inc.; home of most irrelevant intervention to human determination and spirit; the oldest mob in the world which has made a fortune exploiting people’s faith.
The Solar Imposition of Justice
September 14, 2011 – 20:30
Sun over Saint Peter’s Basilica — Vatican City.
Castel Sant’ Angelo
September 14, 2011 – 20:29
Castel Sant’ Angelo — The mausoleum of the Roman emperor Hadrian (76-136) on Tevere.
Proper Inspiration
September 14, 2011 – 20:29
Just beauty… really. Walking around I have quenched so many different parameters of my cine-visual needs in the narratives of my mind with songs sprouting from its core feeling. This is how I operate. I write. I sing as I walk around. — Near Piazza di Spagna, Roma.
Moving to Rome Eventually
September 14, 2011 – 20:28
Of course, I will live in this city that effortlessly inspire me at each turn of a corner. Sorry, New York you don’t have that impact on me.
Expensive Decor
September 14, 2011 – 20:27
This is what I call living art. Capuchin crypt on Via Veneto (where Fellini used to hang out, featured in La Dolce Vita outdoor restaurant scenes) with its crypts entirely decorated by arranging human bones. It’s a shocking sight, but nevertheless beautiful. The details are just mind blowing.
When the monks arrived at the church in 1631, they brought 300 cartloads of deceased friars. Fr. Michael of Bergamo oversaw the arrangement of the bones in the burial crypt. The soil in the crypt was brought from Jerusalem, by order of Pope Urban VIII.
As monks died during the lifetime of the crypt, the longest-buried monk was exhumed to make room for the newly-deceased who was buried without a coffin, and the newly-reclaimed bones were added to the decorative motifs. Bodies typically spent 30 years decomposing in the soil, before being exhumed
