Interesting video taken from the hall of the Uffizi. The ceiling is irregularly shaped, with designs accounting for the curvature. A similar painting is in the church of Sant’Ignazio. There, instead of an actual dome, an illusion of a dome is simply painted.
Cleaning in progress
Today, we unexpectedly came across a monument to Pushkin in Rome (Villa Borghese).
The inscription in Italian on the pedestal reads: “Who knows the land where the sky shines with inexplicable blue… Italy, magical land, country of lofty inspirations”
Work by Yuri Orekhov. There’s also his monument to Pushkin in the center of Baku. And in Vienna, Minsk, Yakutsk, Paris. Pushkin never visited Italy.
Today we visited the Borghese Museum. One of the sculptures there seemed very interesting to me. It depicts Pauline Bonaparte in the guise of Venus.
Napoleon Bonaparte had three brothers and three sisters. Out of all of them, Pauline Bonaparte was his favorite.
Pauline garnered fame as the most charming and licentious woman of Paris. She married General Leclerc. That is, at that time he had been an aide-de-camp for three years, in May Napoleon made him a general, and in June Pauline became Leclerc’s wife. Three years later, Leclerc died of yellow fever, and Pauline married Camillo Borghese, a supporter of Napoleon. This 28-year-old Italian, a representative of an ancient aristocratic family, owned two palaces, 40 castles, filled with works of antique and modern art, Roman palazzo, and a collection of rare diamonds. There’s actually an interesting story there, I recommend reading
She was buried in Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, where we also went today. This year, 2022, marks exactly 200 years since her death. Various sources claim that according to her last will, a statue by Canova was placed next to her grave. I cannot find any confirmation of this, and, moreover, Canova’s statue is not in the basilica, as we see.
So, returning to the sculpture itself. Pay attention to how precisely the mattress is conveyed in stone. The folds, the pattern, the tassels of the pillow, and even what seems to be a stain. And Pauline herself must also be pleased.
A lifehack I’ve been using for a long time is when in a cafe or hotel, if the connection page does not appear while trying to connect to free internet (you know, where they collect emails or personal data in exchange for access), you can usually prompt it manually in the browser by navigating to http://айпи-адрес of the router (settings->wifi->router). And if you add /admin to it, in some cases, you can access the admin panel (after a couple of attempts to guess the password from choices like admin or root). The admin panel isn’t particularly useful, but out of curiosity, I’ve logged in three times without tampering with anything. But I often use the first tip
cute
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new JR’s, this time in Rome // French Embassy
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The Vittoriano — A mind in possession of good reigns
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