{"id":565,"date":"2014-04-07T20:57:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.wordpress.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2024-10-02T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:09:54","slug":"for-all-the-marble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"For All the Marble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Oh the humanity. There are people everywhere. I have&nbsp;been visiting the most iconic sights the last two days&nbsp;&#8211; the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Piazza Navona. I was so relieved today when I had my Roma Pass and walked by the neverending queue to buy tickets for&nbsp;the Colosseum. How can I make this happen for the Vatican Museum line-up? I think I&#8217;ll have to pay extra for a reservation. Rome is&nbsp;a popular place.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/img_0359.jpg\" alt=\"Outside the Pantheon\" class=\"wp-image-55\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Outside the Pantheon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/img_0030.jpg\" alt=\"Pathway full of people all the way to the Arch of Septimius Severus\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pathway full of people all the way to the Arch of Septimius Severus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">You can literally trip over lumps of marble sticking out of the ground&nbsp;all around the ancient sites. Random pieces of columns are everywhere. Up on the Palatine, the location of Imperial Roman palaces, I found a couple of columns that were a gorgeous yellow. Turned out to be Numidian marble, Numidia having been in North Africa around where&nbsp;Tunisia and Libya are today. The marble&nbsp;was used a lot in the Pantheon as well.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/img_0200.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow marble column\" class=\"wp-image-58\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yellow marble column<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/img_0352.jpg\" alt=\"Marble-clad interior of the Pantheon\" class=\"wp-image-60\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marble-clad interior of the Pantheon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">And since I&#8217;ve used mosaics in the title of the blog, I&#8217;ll end with a couple of mosaics that I&#8217;ve seen so far. The first one was made with tiny tesserae. The other comes from the Colosseum.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/52-theatre-mosaic.jpg\" alt=\"Theatre mosaic from the Capitoline Museum\" class=\"wp-image-61\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Theatre mosaic from the Capitoline Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/img_0300.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Animal Hunt\" class=\"wp-image-63\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wild Animal Hunt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh the humanity. There are people everywhere. I have&nbsp;been visiting the most iconic sights the last two days&nbsp;&#8211; the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Pantheon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-italy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}