Italy Pages, Once Again

Here are some pages dating back to early February. Almost March now, and prep for Sicily/midterms is in full swing. And by full swing, I mean I'm doing this and running around being social rather than studying.

I went to the Vatican

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The next week we had an excellent Tuesday trip to Alba Fucens. It's a little bitty (relatively speaking) Roman colony out in the mountains. They're currently excavating the Forum, and they have a chunk of the city done as well as the amphitheater. 

Scrapmatter Design Team: Connect; Mandagirl: Template 52; Suzy Q Scraps: {Stash Builders} Simple Paper Alphas 2

Everyone was psyched about the amphitheater, and the spirit of past gladiatorial games overcame us.

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We also had one of our first autopsies, which required going to different bits of the ruins and identifying them as best as we could.

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At the end of the day, there were also a couple of student site presentations in the city around (and of) the Porta Maggiore.

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Our Thursday visit was much more low key - we only needed to take the 44 to the Forum Boarium for some temples, the Arch of the Argentari, and Tiber Island.

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Here's where my descriptions/pages start getting out of order. For art history, we went to Santa Maria del Popolo, which is absolutely gorgeous and randomly has two Caravaggio's in a side chapel.  There is another Tuesday trip where we went to Gabii, Praeneste, and saw the Navi di Neme, which are the remains of the remains of Caligula's pleasure boats (best Adam quote of the day, said to himself while boarding the bus to depart: "And now to my pleasure bus").  Thursday was relatively low-key; we went to the Baths of Diocletian, and both toured the museum and worked on an epigraphy assignment.  

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For art history, we went to the Castel Sant'Angelo, followed by the Capitoline Museums. They have a rather nice short exhibit on Da Vinci (as in, one painting).  Unfortunately, we had to cut our time there short as we simply had to go home for a demonstration in Limoncello making. Our ticket was still valid for a few more hours, so a few of us went back to the museum for fun and games with the busts.

Our ticket the Baths of Diocletian got us in to a few more museums (Palazzo Altemps and Palzzo Massimo, both of which I highly recommend), so we ended up checking those out on Saturday. Combined with our trip back to the Capitoline on Tuesday for the City course, it ended up turning into: LiviaQuest 2011 (she and Augustan dynastically-influenced building projects are my favorite bits of Roman history).

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A bit more shopping is on the agenda this afternoon - there's a hosiery shop that supposedly has amazing tights down by Largo Argentina. Tomorrow will be spent prepping for a Latin midterm and site report of the Porticus Octaviae (Augustan dynastic building! My favorite!). 

Week 2 In Italy - More Site Visits!

Another week with more site visits - I think I'm going to be falling behind pretty quickly now that the city is starting to catch up with me.  Here is the second half of last week, detailing our half-day Art History trip to the Vatican. I have a couple more St Peter's Square pages to do, since I went back on Saturday. No basilica, but I did get to see the pope ordaining new bishops on the big screen that they had set up outside.

Simple Scrapper: April 10x12 Template; Bella Gypsy: Polar Pals and Chill Factor; Britt-ish Designs: Christmas Tradition

Bella Gypsy: Polar Pals and Chill Factor; Simple Scrapper: Seven Things Template

I also finally got around to doing the other half of the Tarquinia page on the tomb that we were assigned. All I have to say : best tomb there.

Suzy Q Scraps and Britt-ish Designs: Bon Appetit; Traci Reed Hawt Mamas: Template

First Weekend and Tombs

I'm still getting into the swing of things, but the lack of intense homework has given me an opportunity to get a jump start on this album. I am also kind of shocked at how many pictures I've taken in a week - there is no way that I'm going to be able to sustain this sort of pace over the rest of the semester.

Anyway, more pages. Here's us at the Campo dei Fiori, enjoying some panini. Yum. Theoretically, there will be a matching Disney Store page across from it later.

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This one I posted over at the Lilypad for Sahlin Studios' Memory Land Monday with the Story of Friendship kit. The pictures are all super tiny because I just grabbed them from people's facebook pages.

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This too has a matching page of the wedding cake monument (I never remember its real name). It's the first thing we see at the terminus of our main bus.

Britt-ish Designs - Inspired by Natasha Templates, Wire Flowers Metal Edition, Land of Fantasy; Sahlin Studios - A Story of Friendship, After Dark

For our big Tuesday trip, we went out to go see some Etruscan tombs (yay Etruscans? The imperial age is more my area).  But just before the real tombs, there was a museum where we saw Etruscan sarcophagi and Greek vases from the grave goods, but no photography allowed. I had left my camera on the bus anyway, so it was a moot point.  Along with this page, there will a page focusing on the particular tomb at Tarquinia that Aimee and I did our project on. 

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After a rather rushed lunch and no bathroom break (seriously, who locks the bathroom five minutes before closing when there is clearly a large group prepping to leave?), we headed out to the next tomb site.

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Suzy Q Scraps: {Stash Builders} Simple Paper Alphas 2, From the Heart; Dreams Inspired: P12 Template (?)

For the Thursday trip, we scaled it back and hit up a really neat museum, although it was still more Etruscan stuff. I have a lot more notes about specific artifacts, but like the other museum, photography was not allowed :( I might just look up the pieces online and use google for them later.

Britt-ish Designs - Alice; Suzy Q Scraps: {Stash Builders} Simple Paper Alphas 2, Heart to Heart; Andrea Gold: Template Addicts' Bundle 02

There was a really cool reproduction of an Etruscan temple, not permissible to enter. Also important to note: Etruscan temples were actually made of bricks and wood, mostly, so the reproduction is not true to the original material.  However, it was built that was so as to avoid the degradation that caused there to be no real remaining Etruscan temples in the first place.

Suzy Q Scraps: {Stash Builders} Simple Paper Alphas 2, Heart to Heart; Pencil Lines: Aug Sketch

Alas, homework once again beckons. More Suetonius, who I've really been enjoying, and studying for the weekly quiz. Good thing that I'm counting this scrapbooking as related to studying due to the content.  If there's time tonight, I'm going to get the Vatican Museum pages done as well as St. Peter's Square, which I went to on my own yesterday. So amazing - I couldn't get in to the Basilica, but it was because the pope was ordaining new bishops! So now I've seen him via screen :)

More from Last Week

Here are a few more layouts using pictures from last week. I've finally gotten around to the Art History field trip! It was hard to make myself do the Temple of Castor page since we've already been tested over the material, but it was necessary in order to move on the San Pietro.  I'm also going to try and start on the necropolises we saw yesterday, which were super fun.  It was hard to mentally balance, "omg this is so cool, we get to climb all over a necropolis!" and "This used to be a cemetery, and archaeologists have completed raided it. The Etruscans would not be pleased." Either way, it was certainly a learning experience.

Temple of Castor in the Forum:

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And here's the first stop on the art history trip, San Pietro in Montorio. It's on the top of the Janiculum, and you can see the whole city from up here. So amazing.

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Here's the Tempietto, which is located in the courtyard of San Pietro, just off to the side. Our professor called it the best preserved instance of High Renaissance architecture (assuming I'm remembering the "High" bit correctly. Whichever bit of the Renaissance it is dated to, that's the best example of that period). It's surprisingly small considering the proportions of the building.

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Last one from art history, the Villa Farnesina.

Sahlin Studios - So This Is Love; Heather W/snowdrop: Birthday Template; Bella Gypsy: Red, White & You; Interior picture from Wikipedia (no cameras allowed)

I have a few more pages from the weekend to do as well - another two page set! I'm really starting to get into this whole one kit, match opposing pages thing. The symmetry is heartwarming :)