Follow Sean and Sara on their Europe trip of 2010. (All pictures on this blog were supplied by Sean Flaherty).

Thursday, June 10, 2010

June 9-Rome


Sara looking at sculpture in the Vatican Museum.

Today we went to the Vatican. The museum was AMAZING! Here are some of Sara's favorite things she saw at the museum:

-Laocoon (one of Sara's favorite sculptures...Laocoon warned the Trojans of the Trojan Horse. He said it was a trick; right then Poseidon sent 2 serpents to kill him and his two sons. The sculpture shows the serpents entangling them.)

-Sculpture that has stories from the Trojan War carved in it (pictured above).

-Ralphael's Signature Room: Painting of famous philosophers/writers/mathmaticians...tons of symbolism!

We also saw the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica.

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