VATICAN CITY:
Smallest country in the world in which no one really lives.
I just read Angles & Demons which takes place in Rome and Vatican City. I loved knowing exactly what Dan Brown was talking about when Robert Langdon was running all around to different locations in the two cities. I read the totality of Angels & Demons 620 pages over the course of one long weekend (which is a huge feat for me seeing as finishing a book before a month passes is usually making good time). It is now one of my favorite books and I highly recommend it to everyone. It touches on issues of science, religion, mystery, murder, love, deception, and triumph. A fast read designed for the intellectual mind. So, if you have not already read it you should. And if you have not already been to Rome you must go. If you have neither read the book nor traveled to Rome, buy a copy of Angles & Demons and an international flight to Rome ASAP and read the book on the flight over killing two birds with one stone. Now I want to go back to Rome and travel between the four pillars of science mentioned by Dan Brown and follow the path of the Illuminati because all the buildings and sculptures mentioned are real.
I just read Angles & Demons which takes place in Rome and Vatican City. I loved knowing exactly what Dan Brown was talking about when Robert Langdon was running all around to different locations in the two cities. I read the totality of Angels & Demons 620 pages over the course of one long weekend (which is a huge feat for me seeing as finishing a book before a month passes is usually making good time). It is now one of my favorite books and I highly recommend it to everyone. It touches on issues of science, religion, mystery, murder, love, deception, and triumph. A fast read designed for the intellectual mind. So, if you have not already read it you should. And if you have not already been to Rome you must go. If you have neither read the book nor traveled to Rome, buy a copy of Angles & Demons and an international flight to Rome ASAP and read the book on the flight over killing two birds with one stone. Now I want to go back to Rome and travel between the four pillars of science mentioned by Dan Brown and follow the path of the Illuminati because all the buildings and sculptures mentioned are real.
Vatican City is one giant museum. Every inch of every surface is historical. They possessed thousands of famous works over the course of Christianity's existence especially during the crusades.
Some time ago one of the popes decided that having the naked sculptures of men within the wall of the Vatican was too provocative so he went around and chiseled off all of their loins. He replaced the empty space with marble fig leaves. Sculptures with these fig leaves are mostly only found within Vatican City.
My neck hurt after leaving the city because of the constant craning to see everything on the walls, ceilings, and floors. No surface was less adorned than the next. The hallway pictured below was my favorite.
You're not allowed to take photographs inside the Sistine Chapel so I took pictures of these postcards depicting the images within the Sistine Chapel instead. The Sistine Chapel is at the end of the tour through the Vatican which was well planed by the museum designer seeing as it is the most magnificent room an art lover will ever enter. I kept my thoughts focused on the insane details, the masterful depth of perception, the angelic color scheme, and deep meanings. I tried to find what Michelangelo intended observers to discover within his art. I tried to imagine the insane amount of effort and time that went into painting this massive chapel. The years of planning, the years of laying on his back. I kept reminding myself that his is where Michelangelo had once stood, this is where the most famous artist of human time exerted the majority of his artistic energy. And then I was overcome by that energy. I felt deeply moved to the point of tears. I couldn't look away from the beauty of it all. I fell in love.
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