Classes this week...

Since I am taking two on-site classes, I spent three days on-site this week (one is a make-up for the Papal Audience next Wednesday). My professor for both of these classes is Dr. Nicholson, who is awesome. He knows everything about Rome! On Tuesday (and Friday), my Baroque Art class went to the Vatican. We studied St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basillica. I learned alot, most interestingly, I learned about the 4 piers surrounding the dome in the basillica. I didn't realize that the statues surrounding the altar symbolized the four most important relics that are (or were) in the church. I especially liked the statue of St. Longinus, and I liked learning about his story because I didn't know much before.

Wednesday my Art in Rome class went to the Roman Forum. I don't really know what to say about the forum without saying it all, which would take a long time, so I'll spare you. I'm trying to scan in the image from our textbook of the before/after forum... its pretty crazy. I did see where Julius Caesar was killed! Heyah! It pretty much looks like a stone floor. Haha.