{"id":4,"date":"2004-09-20T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/20\/rome-going-radio-silent\/"},"modified":"2004-09-20T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T16:00:45","slug":"rome-going-radio-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/20\/rome-going-radio-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome & Going Radio Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sorry for the lack of
\nposts recently.   (Not that anyone is reading this anyway,
\nbut all 2 of you who are…)   Basically I have just been too
\nbusy sightseeing to post anything.  And there’s the laziness.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, Rome was great.  Dad,
\nSara, Marie, and I arrived on Wednesday morning, and just left today
\n(Monday afternoon.)  We had some great meals, mostly at trattorias
\nand family restaurants.  (Is there a difference?)  Lots of
\npasta, zuppe, and in general traditional Italian food, even spaghetti
\nand meatballs.  It was pretty fun.  <\/span><\/p>\n

We saw all the major sights,
\ntoo:  the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel, the Roman Forum, and
\nthe Coliseum.  The Sistine Chapel was amazing and I think the 2000
\nrestoration really did a lot for it.  The colors were brighter and
\nmore vibrant, and in general Michelangelo’s painting “The Last
\nJudgment” is everything it’s cracked up to be.  It was just
\nbreathtaking, and as our tour book put it, arguably the greatest single
\nachievement in Western art.  The painting includes hundreds of
\nfigures, and some of the facial expressions are really
\ninteresting.  But it was their bodies that made the work so
\nfascinating – the work is a celebration of the human form, a frenzy of
\ntwisting, turning, lunging, stretching, soaring, shrieking, straining
\nbodies.  Out of all the figures painted, not one of them was
\nstanding or sitting straight.  They were all twisting, turning, or
\nstraining in some way.  Unbelievable. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Here’s a copy of the painting.<\/a>
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\n
\n<\/a>
\nOther highlights, which I will post
\nabout later, include Notte Bianca and our trip to the main Roman
\nsynagogue to observe the Rosh Hashanah holiday. <\/p>\n

UPDATE:  The link didn’t work with IE, but it did with Mozilla.  I changed the link.  It should work now.
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