My daughter was studying renaissance history and mentioned St. Peter's Church, Michelangelo's Pietà and Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, all of which she has seen. None of which she remembered. So I did the parent thing and dug up some photos, and fell down the rabbit hole that is my digital photo library, and came up with a few gems.
Check out this blog post if you want to see why I keep going back to Mary Queen of the World and its view from the Queen Elizabeth hotel's west side.
Here is Michaelangelo's Pietà, signed in a banner across Mary's chest, and housed in a corner at the Vatican, where precious art is common, that they put tables in front to sell you copies of things, and display things in corners that would be centerpieces anywhere else. The Vatican Museum is THE must-see of all must-see museums.
If you think you saw it in St. Peter's, I will not dissuade you. I think, however, that it may be a copy. Maybe they are both copies. But there is something special about the one against the window that I am taking as the real deal.
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| La Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica |
Here is proof that my daughter was there (sorry, there seems to be a glitch so these rotated versions will placehold for now):
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| The glorious exit from a the truly glorious Vatican |
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| St. Peter's Cathedral |
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