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January 11, 2008
First Lesson!
Well, flickr is hating me right now, so no pictures of the Forum . . . but we all went to the Forum Romanum this morning - and I have a nice picture of the Arch of Titus through the morning mist. You'll see it soon!
We have a great guide for the morning, Cristina Giannicchi, who will also be with us for the Vatican Museum and the Colosseum area. The Forum is so confusing a site that I get buried in details; it's really worth leaving to a professional, and Cristina did a fine job of picking up the themes of the semester. She stressed the positive nature of reuse and recycling of architecture - that the parts that are preserved more or less intact were those used by the Church later, and the other parts are what fell into utter ruin. My class will find that handy! She also set up the folks working next week on Roman roads and streets really well!
I've earned a weekend of rest! I'll spend some of it visiting the apartments to figure out locations, bus routes, and transit times and I want to preview the Vatican Museum. I feel like a trip to Sta. Prassede, too - especially if the weather's nice. Then there's the flea market in Trastevere, again if the weather's nicer than predicted. We'll see!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at January 11, 2008 3:17 PM