The phrase “harsh tutelage” keeps running through my mind. I don’t know why. 

Outside. Standard Rome building, perhaps last painted in Mussolini’s time. Fortunately the city is sliding back into its old sooty funkiness after the big cleanup for the Giubileo in 2000.  

Museum trip!

Back to Rome pictures again. We visit the Capitoline hill museums. I still didn’t get to see the colossal head of Constantine. Next time. Museums are frigging gruelling.  

Children were harassing the pigeons at the entrance. 

We wait for the bus! A little out of order here.  

I forget who this is, but it’s always been one of my favorite 4th century Imperial portraits. It’s quite massive and shares a new space with the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, a massive bronze […]