Uploads from ell brown, tagged lazio

Ell in gardens near the Roman Forum, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:15 -0800

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Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

In gardens above the Roman Forum.

Ell at the St Peter's Square, The Vatican

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:43:27 -0800

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Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

This is St Peter's Square

I'm in St Peter's Square in The Vatican.

Ell at the Victor Emmanuel II Monument

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:26 -0800

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Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

This is the Victor Emmanuel II Monument.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_monument

From Wikipedia:

The Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II) or Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy, located in Rome, Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1895; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy, such as Angelo Zanelli. It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.

The monument, "chopped with terrible brutality into the immensely complicated fabric of the hill", is built of pure white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features majestic stairways, tall Corinthian columns, fountains, a huge equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high. If the quadrigae and winged victories are included, the height is to 81 m (266 ft). The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification.

I'm on the steps of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument.

Ell at the Pantheon, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:46:20 -0800

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Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

This is the Pantheon in Rome.

Ell at the St Peter's Square, The Vatican

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:42:54 -0800

ell brown posted a photo:

Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

This is St Peter's Square

I'm in St Peter's Square in The Vatican.

View from the Victor Emmanuel II Monument - Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary and Trajan's Column

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:53 -0800

ell brown posted a photo:

Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

This is the Victor Emmanuel II Monument.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_monument

View from the VEII monument of other buildings and a column with statue. Building with a dome.

View includes: Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary and Trajan's Column.

Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano

The Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary at the Trajan Forum (Italian: Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano, Latin: Ss. Nominis Mariae ad forum Traiani) is a Roman Catholic church in Rome. This church should not be confused with the church Santissimo Nome di Maria in Via Latina in south-east Rome.

The feast of the Holy Name of Mary was instituted by Pope Innocent XI after the victory of the Austrian-Polish armies under the command of John III Sobieski over the Turks at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Abbot Giuseppe Bianchi instituted devotion to the most holy name of Mary in 1685 at Santo Stefano del Cacco, and soon afterwards established the Congregation of the Most Holy Name of Mary, which was formally approved in 1688.

Trajan's Column

Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, which commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It was probably constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. Completed in 113 CE, the freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas relief, that artistically describes the epic wars between the Romans and Dacians (101–102 and 105–106). Its design has inspired numerous victory columns, both ancient and modern.

The structure is about 30 metres (98 ft) in height, 35 metres (125 ft) including its large pedestal. The shaft is made from a series of 20 colossal Carrara marble drums, each weighing about 32 tons, with a diameter of 3.7 metres (11 ft). The 190-metre (625 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times. Inside the shaft, a spiral staircase of 185 stairs provides access to a viewing platform at the top. The capital block of Trajan's Column weighs 53.3 tons, which had to be lifted to a height of c. 34 m.

Ancient coins indicate preliminary plans to top the column with a statue of a bird, probably an eagle, but after construction a statue of Trajan was put in place; this statue disappeared in the Middle Ages. On December 4, 1587, the top was crowned by Pope Sixtus V with a bronze figure of St. Peter, which remains to this day.

Ell in gardens near the Roman Forum, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:44:57 -0800

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Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

In gardens above the Roman Forum.

Ell at the Pantheon, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:46:05 -0800

ell brown posted a photo:

Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

This is the Pantheon in Rome.

Ell in front of the Fontana del Pantheon

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:46:27 -0800

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Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

I've got a fountain / sculpture behind me. Taken in the summer of 2006, while we were on holiday in Rome.

I think that it is the Fontana del Pantheon (English: Fountain of the Pantheon).

The Fontana del Pantheon (English: Fountain of the Pantheon) was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII and is located in the Piazza della Rotonda, Rome, in front of the Roman Pantheon. It was designed by Giacomo Della Porta in 1575 and sculpted out of marble by Leonardo Sormani.

In 1711, Pope Clement XI requested that the fountain be modified and had Filippo Barignoni design a new layout, which included a different basin, made of stone, and the obelisk of Ramses II set in the centre on a plinth with four dolphins decorating the base.

In 1886, the original marble figures were removed, and replaced with copies by Luigi Amici. Today the originals can be seen in the Museum of Rome.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_del_Pantheon

Sitting on the basin of the fountain.

Man behind me taking a photo of the fountain. That is what I do now if in Italy or France, but not back then in 2006.

Ell at the Pantheon, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:46:12 -0800

ell brown posted a photo:

Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

This is the Pantheon in Rome.

Ell at the Victor Emmanuel II Monument

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:35 -0800

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Ell at the Spanish Steps - Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:46:52 -0800

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Family holiday in Rome, Summer 2006.

At the Spanish Steps in Rome.

I went up to the top of the steps. Sitting on a wall.

Now wish that I had my own camera to document everything I saw. Oh well. Never thought about those things back then. Was another age.

Elephant and Obelisk - Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:22:17 -0700

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Cropped photos of a elephant and obelisk sculpture, round the corner from the Pantheon in Rome.

(original photos had my parents in it - not sure if I or my late brother took these - probably me).

Two photos cropped into two.

The Pantheon is on the left.

It is called the Elephant and Obelisk

The Elephant and Obelisk is a sculpture designed by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. The elephant was probably executed by his assistant Ercole Ferrata; the Egyptian obelisk was uncovered during nearby excavations. It was unveiled in February 1667, just outside the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where it still stands now.

Known as "Bernini's Chick", it portrays an image originating in the Hypnerotomachia Polyphili of 1499.

The sculpture was commissioned by Pope Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi. It turned out to be the last commission he would ask of Bernini, as he died in May 1665, to be replaced by Pope Clement IX

Elephant and Obelisk - Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:22:06 -0700

ell brown posted a photo:

Cropped photos of a elephant and obelisk sculpture, round the corner from the Pantheon in Rome.

(original photos had my parents in it - not sure if I or my late brother took these - probably me).

Two photos cropped into two.

It is called the Elephant and Obelisk

The Elephant and Obelisk is a sculpture designed by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. The elephant was probably executed by his assistant Ercole Ferrata; the Egyptian obelisk was uncovered during nearby excavations. It was unveiled in February 1667, just outside the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where it still stands now.

Known as "Bernini's Chick", it portrays an image originating in the Hypnerotomachia Polyphili of 1499.

The sculpture was commissioned by Pope Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi. It turned out to be the last commission he would ask of Bernini, as he died in May 1665, to be replaced by Pope Clement IX

Elephant and Obelisk - Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:22:25 -0700

ell brown posted a photo:

Cropped photos of a elephant and obelisk sculpture, round the corner from the Pantheon in Rome.

(original photos had my parents in it - not sure if I or my late brother took these - probably me).

Two photos cropped into two.

It is called the Elephant and Obelisk

The Elephant and Obelisk is a sculpture designed by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. The elephant was probably executed by his assistant Ercole Ferrata; the Egyptian obelisk was uncovered during nearby excavations. It was unveiled in February 1667, just outside the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where it still stands now.

Known as "Bernini's Chick", it portrays an image originating in the Hypnerotomachia Polyphili of 1499.

The sculpture was commissioned by Pope Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi. It turned out to be the last commission he would ask of Bernini, as he died in May 1665, to be replaced by Pope Clement IX

Elephant and Obelisk - Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:21:53 -0700

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The Pantheon, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:49:51 -0700

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Cropped photos of The Pantheon in Rome (originally taken by my late brother in 2006 - the original photos had me and my parents in it - so cropped us out of it).

I only tried taking photos inside (but not with much success being that it was a compact camera with flash going off!).

It was rebuilt in AD 126 by the Emperor Hadrian.

The Pantheon, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:49:42 -0700

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The Pantheon, Rome

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:49:34 -0700

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Fridge magnet - Rome - Fori Imperiali

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:57:20 -0700

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Fridge magnets bought on various holidays / day trips.

This one is from Rome - Fori Imperiali.

Bought June 2006.