Monday 7th

Santa Maria Della Vittoria 

Ecstacy of Santa Teresa by Bernini

Monday 7th

Edward Hopper exhibit 

Monday 7th

I'm Star Wars exhibit 

Sunday

For the seamstresses in the group.  Make these pleats! 

Saturday 5th

Note how the most clever of Roman cats are being used to guard the Domus Aurea.

This one is stealthy:

You think this one is ignoring you, but look at his right ear!  He's listening to you:  

Saturday 5th

The culmination of the Domus Aurea Project will result in the many feet of heavy soil being removed from on top of Nero's house.  It will be replaced by a lighter matrix that will include ventilation, drainage and a garden people can enjoy.

Saturday 5th

The Domus Aurea Project, Nero's Golden House excavations is a multi-decade, multi hundreds of thousands of Euros project.

Yes, we did have to wear helmets.

Friday wine

With Giordano Bruno watching

At R. J. Numbs, yep, no lie, in Campo dei Fiori

Friday 4th

LOVE exhibit at the Chiostro del Bramante 

Friday

Yesterday at the Baths of Diocletian, where a tribute to Jean Arp and his wife, Sophie Taeuber Arp, was mounted.  It has been 50 years since Jean Arp's death and 100 since Dadaism was begun and grew at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire.

Thursday

A breakfast pizza for lunch 

Egg and bacon, real bacon 

Cutie

The doorkeeper cat, Bayba

Thursday morning

Three of the Quattro Fontane

And one more

Thursday morning

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontaine, AKA San Carlino

The cloister

Thursday morning

Sant'Andrea al Quirinale

With a class sketching

Thursday Morning

San Sylvester al Quirinale

Wed

Found the perfect place for selfies at MACRO.

This is what I'm looking at.

Wed

Completed installation at MACRO.  Watched the artists install it when I was at the museum last.  I called it "messy perfection", which they liked.

Wed

Wed at le Lanterne with salmon

Wed 02

It's only 9:30 and my day has been made.  Look at all the Pocket Coffee at the supermarket!

Tues. 1st

Ristorante Ulpia, where I had Thanksgiving turkey a few years ago.  Closed up tighter than a drum.  There's a lot of excavating going on right across from it in Trajan's Forum, maybe even excavating in what was the restaurant???