Friday Music Blogging - Holiday Edition

A couple of tunes I was listening to while on my holiday

Friday Cat Blogging


Heidi




George

Thursday Ballet Blogging

'Gloria' - Kenneth Macmillan's ballet inspired by Vera Brittain's poem. Music by Poulenc.

Florence Blogging

Various statues at the Loggia della Signoria, which is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art.


Rape of the Sabine Women by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna




Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus


The group The Rape of Polyxena, is a fine diagonal sculpture by Pio Fedi from 1865.


On the back of the Loggia are five marble female statues (three are identified as Matidia, Marciana and Agrippina Minor), Sabines and a statue of a barbarian prisoner Thusnelda from Roman times from the era of Trajan to Hadrian












Nearby is Giambologna's less celebrated marble sculpture Hercules beating the Centaur Nessus (1599)

A Series Of Panels Deataling The Spread Of The Roman Empire

This was located on a wall near the Colosseum & Forum.

Inside Santa Croce, Florence, Italy

Florence Blogging


The Church of San Miniato


View of Florence from San Miniato


View of Florence from the Piazzale Michelangelo


Cocktails at Cafe Gilli

Rome Blogging - Vatican Museums & Spanish Steps


Map of Tuscany in the Geographic Gallery Museum, Vatican City


Artemis of Ephesos


Laocoön and His Sons


the Roman copy of the Doryphorus (literally "Spear Carrier"). This perhaps represents Achilles


Asclepius the god of medicine and healing

The rod of Asclepius a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today, although sometimes the caduceus, or staff with two snakes, is mistakenly used instead


Augustus of the Prima Porta


statue of the Roman Emperor Domitian

Titus Flavius Domitianus (24 October 51 – 18 September 96), commonly known as Domitian, was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.


Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden by Wenzel Peter [Austrian Painter, 1745-1829]


Portrait of Pope Clement IX (28 January 1600 – 9 December 1669). Born Giulio Rospigliosi, was Pope from 1667 to 1669. Painting by Carlo Maratta


Transfiguration by Raphael


Fresco dedicated to Pope Sixtus IV & Platina, transfered onto canvas from the rooms of the Apostolic Library, which Sixtus IV had founded in 1475.


The Spanish Steps

Rome Blogging - Colosseum & Forum


Arch of Septimius Severus


The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina


Arch of Titus


Forum


Forum




This antique black marble herm (a bust set on a pillar) from the Augustan age may represent one of the fifty dryads that decorated the Temple of Apollo on the Palatine


The Stadium


Arch of Constatine


Interior of the Colosseum


The Colosseum