Capitoline Museum!
On Friday, we went to the Capitoline Museum! It was wicked awesome, and we saw some artistic master pieces. For example, we started off by observing the remains of the colossal statue of Constantine:
Here is a shot of all the body part fragments:
We also saw the famous Wolf of the Capitol:
This statue depicts Romulus and Remus being raised by a she-wolf. This is only part of the legendary beginnings of Rome. To read to whole story follow this link. Though Romulus and Remus seem like they are supposed to be part of the statue, they were actually added later. The original bronze wolf was a symbol of unity between two towns living on two of the original seven hills of Rome.
Next, we saw the statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. As you can see, the statue is huge:
Jordan looks rather dumbstruck because the horse just kicked him in the head! After that, we found another famous Roman, Brutus:
"Et tu Brute?" After this, we were fortunate enough to stumble onto a painting that I did not know was in this museum. Romulus and Remus by Rubens:
You can tell this is a Rubens because of the Rubenesque (fat) babies. The next highlight (and my personal favorite) was this red marble statue of a faun:
It used to be in Emperor Hadrian's villa. It was a really fun day, well worth the visit! We will be posting all of the pictures on Facebook at some point.
After, we ate pizza downtown, and then grabbed gelato. We went back to JFORCE and watched the first star wars movie and then went to bed.
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