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| Giacomo Brogi Rome - Castel Sant'Angelo, with dome of St Peter's in the distance ca. 1856-81 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada |
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| M.C. Escher Nocturnal Rome - Castel Sant'Angelo 1934 wood-engraving National Gallery of Canada |
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| Giacomo Brogi Rome - Colosseum ca. 1856-81 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada |
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| M.C. Escher Nocturnal Rome - Colosseum 1934 wood-engraving National Gallery of Canada |
MUSEUM
See how the knife rests,
how it reigns there
in its glass case,
free from the soldier's hand.
And how unchanging the statue is.
Feel how far – from this bulging brow,
from the shadows
of this wooden cheek –
the model is.
How I too would like
to go out in the light
of the thing that remains,
having been.
– by Umberto Fiori (b. 1949), translated by Geoffrey Brock
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| Tommaso Cuccioni Rome - Pantheon (with added bell towers, soon to be removal) ca. 1860 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada |
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| Raphael Rome - Interior of the Pantheon ca. 1506 drawing Cabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Alinari & Cook Rome - Interior of the Pantheon ca. 1890 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada |
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| Tommaso Cuccioni Rome - Palazzo Farnese ca. 1860-75 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada |
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| M.C. Escher Rome - San Michele dei Frisoni with St. Peter's behind 1932 lithograph National Gallery of Canada |
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| M.C. Escher Nocturnal Rome - Colonnade of St Peter's 1934 wood-engraving National Gallery of Canada |
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| James Anderson Rome - Fountain at the Villa Medici ca. 1865 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada |
IN THE PALM OF MY RIGHT HAND
in the palm of my right hand
I hold a man without a head
and his sky-blue car
in the palm of my left hand
I hold a small pool of water fringed
with elderberry bushes and yellow reeds
when I press my hands together
I put the headless man
and his sky-blue car
into the small pool
with the tall elderberry bushes
and yellow reeds
– by Dacia Maraini (b. 1936), translated by Martha Collins
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| Arthur Severn Rome - Sketch in the Forum ca. 1860-90 chalk and gouache National Gallery of Canada |
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| Giacomo Brogi Rome - Spanish Steps ca. 1856-81 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada |
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| Richard Wilson Rome from the Villa Madama ca. 1765 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada |