I arrived in Rome on a humid summer night to see the President’s exhibition of his classical sculpture and two much more loosely painted and allusive works which I had not seen before (it doesn’t really come out in the photograph):
The exhibition was held jointly with Enzo Cucchi and afterwards we repaired to the roof terrace of a hotel on the Via Giulia, where the moon shone. I had forgotten how beautiful Rome is. The baroque churches:
And the classical inscriptions set into the walls of houses:
In the morning, I got up early before the heat to visit the local churches. San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini (façade by Galilei):
The façade of the Palazzo dei Pupazzi (in restauro):
The doorway of a house in the Via di S. Maria dell’ Anima:
In S. Agostino, Caravaggio’s Madonna of Loreto was briefly illuminated:
S. Luigi dei Francesi was shut:
The Piazza Navona was empty:
I walked round and round S. Ivo before I spotted Borromini above the rooftops:
Now, it’s time for breakfast.