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We got to go through some back room type places in the Vatican museums but also had to brave the crowds. We were prepared by a lecture on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and another on Raphael’s Stanze. In seminars students were reading either Dante or Vergil which both seemed to fit in here. Our fearless students powered through a long day here without complaining, for which I am grateful. 🙏🏼 #romeinstituteofliberalarts #uta #sjc
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Students were meditative at a couple of our stops on our Constantine focused excursion. These pictures are from Santi Quattro Coronati and the Lateran. The compound at Santi Quattro feels like being outside the city, and the requirement of being silent there makes the experience different from other places in Rome. The Lateran is a much bigger and more of a public space, but the vastness of it creates a quiet atmosphere there too. Beautiful places to stop and reflect. #romeinstituteofliberalarts #sjc #uta
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Most of the RILA group on the roof of the Capitoline, smiling through the heat. #romeinstituteofliberalarts #sjc #uta
1 week ago
Capitoline museums today, students are now very comfortable with ancient art after the lectures and a bunch of museums, and were making connections with some of the readings they did (Livy in one group, Apuleius in the other). #romeinstituteofliberalarts #sjc #uta
1 week ago
First official visit to the Pantheon and Gesu’ (and some other places in the neighborhood of our classroom building). Great group of students trooping through the jet lag and the heat while keeping their spirits high. #uta #sjc #romeinstituteofliberalarts #firsttripofthesummer
2 weeks ago
Just getting started with the summer program, did a little informal visit with a few students to the Villa Farnesina. Still astonished every time I see it by the illusionism in the fake architecture and the “sotto in su” figures by Raphael, Giulio Romano and others here. A couple of other pictures from the walk home. #romeinstituteofliberalarts #sjc #uta #rila
2 weeks ago
More Borromini today this time for “work”: Out today with a great class from Providence College to see his San Carlino as well as Bernini’s Sant’Andrea (and some neighboring places). #sjc #utaustin #providencecollege
4 weeks ago
The Coppede neighborhood. A quiet strange out of the way place that most visitors to Rome miss. #romeinstituteofliberalarts #rila #sjc #utaustin
4 weeks ago
Had an appointment next to San Giovanni in Laterano, couldn’t resist stopping in to see the older mosaics and Borromini’s incredible framing and resetting of all of it. #romeinstituteofliberalarts #readyforthesummerstudents #sjc #utaustin
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