Cortile della Pigna Photo

Photographer’s Note

Taken with a low mpixel (2.1) Fuiji. Increased brightness, cropped, sharpened & saved for web
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Cortile della Pigna
Viale Vaticano, Rome, Italy

Inside the Vatican Museums you will find the Cortile della Pigna between the Sistine Salon, the Museo Chiaramonti, the Galleria dei Candelabri, the Museo Pio-Clementino and the Museo Gregoriano Egizio. The cortile is part of Bramante's Belvedere courtyard and was given the name because of the large bronze pinecone in front of the large niche. It was actually mentioned by Dante in the Divina Commedia. It dates from the Roman era and was found in Agrippa's Baths near Piazza Navona. It was probably created by the sculptor Salvius and may have been part of a fountain. It was later placed in the atrium of St Peter's with two bronze peacocks. In 1990 it was joined by Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculpture Sfera con sfera.

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eeedi (736) 2006-06-20 15:16

interesting view with that big shere in the middle. maybe it would be interesting too see a close-up of the shere with the surroundings reflected on it.
What I like is that the shape of the sphere is somehow repeated in shape and in size by the chapel in the background
regards, edi