Another Rome - Monselice

In 1606 Pope Paul V sanctioned a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Seven Churches in Monselice as carrying the equivalent plenary indulgences of a pilgrimage to the seven Roman basilicas. The design of this analogous interpretation of Rome situated on a hillside in the Veneto plain was entrusted to Vincenzo Scamozzi, and consists of frescoed chapels and a final theatrical sanctuary where elaborately clothed skeletons act the roles of assorted saints and martyrs.

Renzo Piano: Auditorium di Roma 2002

City of the Dead

The Etruscan necropolis of Crocifisso del Tufo, outside Orvieto (c. 500 B.C.) has parallel streets and doorways to the individually identified family tombs. The urban arrangement which is apparent to the visitor is only the most obvious layer of a domesticity of death which would have been supplemented by heraldic symbols on the roofs and the occupation of the houses by sculpted ranks of reclining dead. Although the only means by which to interpret death is through representations and transformations of life, the creations of streets of houses with doorways in a continuous urban wall suggests the significance of common civic values in all areas of existence.

from URBAN ETHIC link in the sidebar

Antonio da Sangallo the Elder: San Biagio, Montepulciano 1518-45

Giovanni Michelucci: Palazzo del Governo, Arezzo 1936

Christmas

Two studies for a museum in Vicenza

Perambulation around Perpignan

Three studies for an epiphanic wall

Detail and silhouette in the baroque

Guarino Guarini: Palazzo Carignano, Turin


Francesco Borromini: The Oratory, Rome

Proportion in perspective

Cortile, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino



Loggia dei Capitani, Vicenza

City as fountain, fountain as nature

The Rometta Fountain, Villa d'Este, Tivoli


The Trevi Fountain, Rome

Immaculate Conception

Linked from the site http://www.catholicpreston.com
Comment "In my opinion this is the loveliest of all the Christmas music. Beautifully sung and performed here!"
Linked from the Brazilian site http://www.psa-as.com.br/

Profiles of the Emperors

Severus Alexander (Museo Nazionale Romano)


Marcus Aurelius (Campidoglio, Rome)

Advent

Tomb of the Magi, Sant' Eustorgio, Milan