Rain.

Today's art history class (a tour, as it's friday) was exhausting. We started out at Trajan's market, which is now in a museum but is mostly exposed, so it was cold and raining on us. It was fairly interesting, but I'm gonna be honest, I was not so excited to be there.

From there we walked aallll the way to Ara Pacis, which normally isn't a bad walk (maybe a mile?) but again, cold and rain. That was really interesting (and inside) and we learned all about how all these monuments (Ara Pacis, the Obelisk, etc.) have been recovered, restored and often moved during the fascist period. I'd already been to Ara Pacis - it's where the Valentino show was in September. It was really beautiful. Ara Pacis was an altar to peace, and is covered in really incredible portrait reliefs and decoration.




And from there to the pantheon. Again, been there, but not with a guide. It's on the way to class so I pass it pretty much always.
There was another tour next to us, and the tour guide looked like some gangly american kid who, when describing Raphael's tomb said "This guy was a great artist and everything but he was also a super celebrity. Like, really super celebrity. Like we're talking Brangelina here.".

I was not alone in wanting to smack him.

He was reported later to have also compared Raphael to Jim Morrison.


Aaaanyway, when we got back there was a silkscreen demo, but I was so tired that I sat through the first half to get the general idea and then had to go to sleep.