Italy

 ROME

MUSEI VATICANI

Piazza San Pietro, a scenery surrounded by impressive sculptures!

Entering the hall of the glorious Jupiter Verospi, 90 bC, Vatican Museums.

Sculptures of Emperor Augustus and the God Apollo/Phoebus, Vatican Museum.

 VILLA FARNESINA, ROME

Alexandre taming Bucephalus, by Il Sodoma, Vila Farnesina. Above: the treated photo. Below: me in the Wedding Room of Alexander and Roxana, Vila Farnesina.

On the ceilling of Vila Farnesina, the impressive Loggia of Rafael. In detail, the Council of the Gods.

Below is the digitally treated image of Hermes taking Psyche to Olympus.

BOLOGNA

PALAZZO POGGI

City 370 km north of Rome where I visited Palazzo Poggi, with a fantastic gallery of paintings on the ceiling, with different scenes from the Greek-Roman mythological stories, made by the artist Pellegrino Tibaldi. Above, highlights Odysseus/Ulysses blinding Polyphemus, and below the mighty Poseidon/Neptune.

SICILIA

CATHEDRAL OF CEFALÙ

Imposing, in the apse (dome) of the Catholic Basilica, we find the Christus Pantocrator, one of the first artistic representations of Christ as God.

GENOVA

CIMITERIO MONUMENTALE DE STAGLIENO

The furious Chronos/Saturn meditating, in the sculpture of Saint Saccomanno

NAPLES

MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO

Above the Battle of Issus, 150 BC.

Below the Hercules Farnasse. Classic Hercules statue with several copies around the world. From the beginning of the 3rd century and signed by Glicao. Erica beside the statue and beside another digitally altered photo.

FLORENCE

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